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Please tell me LadBaby has fucked off this year.

I wouldn't put Putin on the list at all tbh. There's too many better names out there to waste a spot on a punt, even a cunt like Putin.

Pilnick plays on their first album, and on Stuck in the Middle, but he (and the rest of the band) had quit before Ferguslie Park was recorded. Stealers Wheel was basically Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan for Star and Everything Will Turn Out Fine, with session musicians if needed. Then, having fallen out with the rest of the band, they fell out with each other. Huge fan of the man Rafferty, but he could start a pub fight if he was the only man on Mars!

Yeah, I'm legit saddened by this one.

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Very recent family experience of this = about 3 days from that point. He might see the weekend but he wont see Christmas.

Forgot he was picked. The record is 22/50 btw in 2017 and 2020.

He is sailing, he is sailing, home again, cross the Styx.

The Advent pool and the Midsummer one had entry limits which worked in the days of 2016-17 when we only had about 30 active posters tops per week. Now we've got over double that, and 24 slots were filled in 61 minutes. As it's one pick per person, my public suggestion is to remove the "total number of entrants" limit, and put in some ban about picking people only known to be ill after the entry period opens or something like that? I dont need a curse to do shite in deadpools!

53 Donna Summer – I Feel Love 48 Baccara – Yes Sir, I can boogie 44 Rod Stewart – I don't want to talk about it / The first cut is the deepest 40 ABBA – Knowing me, knowing you 32 Hot Chocolate – So you win again 31 Elton John & Kiki Dee – Don´t go breaking my heart 30 ABBA – Dancing Queen 30 Julie Covington – Don´t cry for me Argentina 28 ABBA – The name of the game 26 ABBA – Mamma Mia 25 ABBA – Fernando 24 Elvis Presley – Way down 24 Tina Charles – I love to love (But my baby loves to dance) 22The Four Seasons – December 1963 (Oh, what a night) +4 20 The Real Thing – You to me are everything 20 Kenny Rogers – Lucille  18 Slik – Forever and ever 17 The Wurzels – Combine Harvester (Brand New Key) 13 Deniece Williams – Free 12 Brotherhood of Man – Save your kisses for me 9 David Soul - Silver Lady - 6

Bill Tidy

Quite a premature death for a Drol Immortal.

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The Scotland team played it when they qualified for Euro 2020 and it became a fan anthem. Maria Mendiola the singer gave it her backing. Then Scotland went out in the groups and Mendiola went and snuffed it. Everyone's cursed by even casual connection to Scottish football!

The Brits section is a bit of a mare. It's an incredible smaller category than I'd assumed. More chance of the entire Punt Pool dying over night than most of them. It's basically pick 5 people and eventually one might die. Even folk who seem like decent punts (like half of the Happy Mondays) never actually won any.

rips up shortlist.

My signature has changed several times, and I am yet to swap identities. It's down to crap fingers.

That's funny because when I first found this forum, it was Googling who the fuck Randy Pausch (who had just died on Wikipedia) was, and this forum had a 20 years of DL thread! And this is the same thread, and oh feck, we're getting old!

49 Donna Summer – I Feel Love 40 Baccara – Yes Sir, I can boogie 36 ABBA – Knowing me, knowing you 30 Rod Stewart – I don't want to talk about it / The first cut is the deepest 28 ABBA – The name of the game +4 27 Elton John & Kiki Dee – Don´t go breaking my heart 26 ABBA – Dancing Queen 25 ABBA – Fernando 24 Elvis Presley – Way down 24 Hot Chocolate – So you win again 23 ABBA – Mamma Mia 22 Julie Covington – Don´t cry for me Argentina 22 The Four Seasons – December 1963 (Oh, what a night) 22 Tina Charles – I love to love (But my baby loves to dance) 20 Slik – Forever and ever 20 The Real Thing – You to me are everything 20 Leo Sayer – When I need you 20 Deniece Williams – Free 20 Kenny Rogers – Lucille  20 The Floaters – Float on 18 Brotherhood of Man – Save your kisses for me 16 The Wurzels – Combine Harvester (Brand New Key) 15 David Soul – Silver Lady -2 15 Manhattan Transfer – Chanson d´amour -3 14 Pussycat – Mississippi -1 6 J.J. Barrie – No charge Unlike the previous rounds there's at least a dozen tracks here I can at the least appreciate so it's harder to chose.

Ecuador 1-2 Senegal Netherlands 3-1 Qatar Iran 1-1 USA Wales 0-2 England Rangers 0-2 Broomhill (why not?)

*nods* Also, Francis's a Jesuit. You know the story about that time the Pope (I forget which one) banned the Jesuits, so they all got together to pray that God would give the Pope a message, and within the week, the Pope was dead? Now I'm an atheist, but clearly the message there is to not side against the Jesuits in a Catholic street fight.

It's essentially a harmless (if twee) bit of nostalgia fluff performed by one of the UK's most beloved singer-songwriters of all time. He's clearly written dozens (hundreds?) of better songs but its success is no mystery to me.

Ah good, someone else rates that Hot Chocolate song!

Tommy Banks is a bit of an outlier - 93 now and while he does have dementia, his family saw it's still mild (so probably age related not football) and he's otherwise in robust health for his age.

37 Donna Summer – I Feel Love 33 Baccara – Yes Sir, I can boogie 29 ABBA – Knowing me, knowing you 25 The Four Seasons – December 1963 (Oh, what a night) 24 ABBA – The name of the game 24 Elvis Presley – Way down 23 ABBA - Fernando +4 23 Manhattan Transfer – Chanson d´amour 22 ABBA – Dancing Queen 22 Julie Covington – Don´t cry for me Argentina 22 Elton John & Kiki Dee – Don´t go breaking my heart 21 ABBA – Mamma Mia 20 Slik – Forever and ever 20 Tina Charles – I love to love (But my baby loves to dance) 20 Brotherhood of Man – Save your kisses for me 20 The Wurzels – Combine Harvester (Brand New Key) 20 The Real Thing – You to me are everything 20 Johnny Mathis – When a child is born (Soleado) 20 Leo Sayer – When I need you 20 Deniece Williams – Free 20 Rod Stewart – I don't want to talk about it / The first cut is the deepest 20 Kenny Rogers – Lucille 20 Hot Chocolate – So you win again 20 The Floaters – Float on 20 David Soul – Silver Lady 17 Pussycat – Mississippi 14 J.J. Barrie – No charge 12 The Jacksons – Show you the way to go 12 Wings – Mull of Kintyre / Girls' School 9 Brotherhood of Man – Angelo 8 Showaddywaddy – Under the moon of love 4 Demis Roussos – The Roussos Phenomenon EP 1 Chicago - If you leave me now -4 0 David Soul – Don´t give up on us -2