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Oh, I am sad to see that one, although she had a hell of a life.

The more teams bit is the important bit right now, they can work on the format later.

Awesome. Scotland still wont qualify, of course...

We're now at 21, so that expands to 10 "as it stands".

Ah, as my grandfather used to have hung on a frame over his door: (Paraphrased) "Why worry If you get sick, either you get better or you don't. If you get better, why worry? If you don't, you'll either live or die. If you live, why worry? If you die, there's either no afterlife or there is one. If there's none, why worry? If there's an afterlife and you die, you'll either go to heaven or Hell. If you go to Heaven, why worry? And if you go to Hell, why worry? You'll be too busy shaking hands with old friends to notice!"

Filled out a last 16, still plenty of time to fill out a final 32 and beyond.... Discretion is a good trait for a married man who wants to live. I've always found the secret to married life is to apologise in advance...

I'd hope not. The closest examples to date were the games MPFC and Joey did (Midsummer/Advent) and while both had their share of FFD types, there were celeb hits within the month in both cases. Also, with the point penalty, we have the scenario where you might need three FFD types to equal a single well chosen name celeb. Each month around 5-10 big name celebs die, alongside 20-30 or so B-level or C-level name celebs. With each player putting in 11 names, we're statistically fairly likely to nab some of them by deft picking or dumb luck, given the once and done lists did. I don't foresee Bad Taste Picks overwhelming the game any more than they do the Deathrace (which I won in 2015 without a single FFD type), but I hope the game will prove you wrong! Also, I didn't say "don't pick kids" because I have taken for granted that the folk on here aren't complete cunts who need to be told that.

Here is, quite literally, a scratch side. 2 Goalkeepers Gordon Banks Antonio Carbajal 5 Midfielders Nobby Stiles Hans Schafer Horst Eckel Martin Peters Tostao 5 Defenders Franz Beckenbauer George Haigh George Cohen Carlos Puyol John Terry 3 Strikers Billy Simpson (captain) Jimmy Greaves Ian St John

A quarterfinals worth of entrants already, and swiftly filling up a potential Last Sixteen - I say we've officially got ourselves a Cup then. No limit on the number of entrants though.

I shall use the "hit by a bus" method to determine that ie, if the person was hit by a bus would they get an obit. Well, of course they would: Person Killed by Bus. But you know what I mean. Suisala, to my mind, would get a Promising Rugby Player obit in that case, whereas Dr Mark S1ms, for example, probably wouldn't. The cancer mums are far more obvious, but for the grey areas, people may appeal to the Referee for a judgement on fame, and his view will be final.

Cool, though remember, you don't send a team in until the First Round is drawn.

I think he's more like the Bernie Worrell of 2017. Nah, there was no warning for Worrell (or Sellers) in 2015. The signs were all there for McGuinness but most of the top teams appear to have gone conservative on it. These things happen, I'd be more annoyed if Spade had picked him!

Short of currently unforeseen grave illness, I think he'll be around for a while yet. I'll go long with 30 April 2022.

You say that, now Debbie Harry's going to drop dead next week.

Sweepstakes? Oh why not, gonna guess standard 3-monther, diagnosed December when his health became public news so... about February 2nd.

Dead. Properly big name in the field, so my wife tells me, though she thought he'd died years ago.

Just watching his speech. I give him 3 months tops.

Martin McGuinness Resigns sounds like a DDP team name, has the same ring to it as Thomas Jefferson Survives.

I thought if he resigned it would mean he's fucked. Painting this as political, but fuck it, I'll stick by that.

2013's a Borgnine shaped snub! It'll be someone yet to die, imo. I'm more interested in who they snub. Abe Vigoda last year.

Folk hoping it goes hideously wrong? Or hideously right, depending on your point of view...

1. Marco Silva (Hull) 2. Paul Clement (Swansea) 3. David Moyes (Sunderland) 4. Owen Coyle (Blackburn) 5. Philippe Montanier (N Forest) 6. Neil Warnock (Cardiff) 7. Steve Robinson (Oldham) 8. Russell Slade (Coventry) 9. Graham Westley (Newport) 10. Andy Edwards (Leyton Orient) 11. Darren Ferguson (Doncaster) 12. Ian Cathro (Hearts) 13. Mark Warburton (Rangers 2012) 14. Jim McIntyre (Ross County) 15. Paul Hartley (Dundee) 16. Richie Foran (Inverness) 17. Claude Puel (Southampton) 18. Walter Mazzarri (Watford) 19. Mick McCarthy (Ipswich) 20. Jose Mourinho (Man Utd)

No love for Hackenschmidt/Gotch 1911? (Davey Meltzer thinks the Gotch matches were legit, btw, or at least did at one point...)

Just came up with a daft idea for a deadpool, and when I say "came up with", I mean "entirely lifted from a football forum". This post is entirely to remind me at some point which isn't 5am, because who remembers flashes of insanity at 5am.

There is And I concur. TMIB is the dog's bollocks. Aye, even sent you some admiration in replying to the confirmation email. Glad the team's in cos there's only 18 of them still breathing Good start for the Carkers, Maryport, beginning as you meant to carry on?