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Martin Kelner has rather helpfully published his discharge notes after having a sarcoma removed and resulting complications

Will be a few shattered dreams if he doesn't pull through

I'm surprised he was only 74. He always looked fucking ancient even when I was a kid

You reckon he'll get the obit? Not sure I'm willing to take the gamble, but could be worth a lot of points...

Latest on Sandy Jardine on the back cover of The Scotsman

Probably stretching the credibility of the thread to breaking point here, but former Newport, Swindon, Portsmouth and Wales U21 defender Steve Aizlewood, the older brother of Wales international Mark, has died at the age of 60

I suppose the biggest shock here is that he actually has a heart

Loads of times - happens in the non-league divisions all the time. Chester City were the most recent sizeable team to go during a season in 2009-10. The team's record is expunged and the league continues as if it only had 1 fewer team to begin with Coventry City have not been liquidated. Coventry City Ltd =/= the club

English obit too. Big score for BTTU

Reports on Twitter that Christian Benitez, former Birmingham striker and a member of the 2006 Ecuador squad has died in Qatar, either as the result of a car accident or a cardiac arrest (depending on who you believe). I believe it has now been confirmed by his club EDIT: SB Nation reporting it's as a result of complications of appendicitis

James Alexander Gordon is to retire from reading the BBC's classified football results on the radio after suffering from cancer of the larynx: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23434089 Cancer 1, Radio Five Live 0

Lead singer of The Animals Eric Burdon got up on stage with Bruce tonight in Cardiff to do We Gotta Get Out of this Place. 72 now and starting to look his age (especially considering he's only a year older than McCartney). That said, he could still belt it out. One to keep an eye on Bruce, on the other hand, is looking trimmer and fitter than ever. Still jumping on pianos and crawling down stairs on his chest after a 3 hour gig at 63

The second member of my longlist to go in the last 4 days - would have had a unique if I'd stuck him in EDIT: Obit here. He was the last surviving member of the Famous Five front-line of the late 40s and early 50s

John Casablancas, founder of modelling agency Elite Model Management, has died at 71. He was also the father of Julian Casablancas, the lead singer of The Strokes

He looked terrible on Celebrity Mastermind last year. Put him on my longlist as a result but didn't put him in my main team

I dunno. For one the Spanish season doesn't start for another month. And given that this is his 2nd relapse, maybe he's just said "I don't want this interfere again". Barca's form was pretty iffy when he was off sick last season (well, for Barca anyway). I'm no expert but I always got the impression that parotid gland cancer wasn't a particularly serious form - unless of course this latest tumour has popped up somewhere else That said, he'll be on my 2014 list at this rate

In other news, there's talk that Barcelona manager Tito Vilanova, who has been suffering from parotid gland cancer on and off for the last couple of years, will announce his resignation later today, possibly due to another relapse

MSC was the abbreviation used by the F1 timing graphics for Michael Schumacher

Pretty sure Paul Bearer talked about the death of Paul Bearer earlier this year

^^ Up to 4th overall now Has T-Model Ford had an obit yet?

Seems very speculative ("as little as three months", not necessarily that he has three months - I mean I could have "as little as three months to live") and the source is the National Enquirer. This story doesn't exactly fit like a glove. File under the "long shot" heading

Yeah, this spamming won't go away on it's own now. Time for a change

My abiding memory of 2010 is sticking the matches on the TV in the lounge of my halls and then spending most of the time in my room on my laptop, running out every time there was a goal - which wasn't very often I do think there was a lack of stand-out memorable moments, which can be influential - even 1990 and 2002 had their share. For 2010, you've basically got the Suarez incident, Iniesta's goal in the final (though I was busy doing my own Fabien Barthez vs Di Canio routine as he scored, which ruined the moment), and the England calamities against USA and Germany will be talked about for a while (at least here). But other than that, I'm struggling Spain may well go down as one of the great international teams of all time but in a playing sense they were totally forgettable in that tournament - so fucking turgid, with no real defining moment. It was such a shame the Germans didn't wallop them in the semis - had they done so, and then gone on to beat Holland in the final, perhaps our memories would have been fonder, because you'd have a team with moments that you could have pointed to and said "that's why they're world champions". You couldn't do that with that Spain team because they won virtually every match by 1 goal I wonder if the World Cup's got to the point of being too big, in the sense that the expectation is now so great for virtually every team that they're just too scared (and tired) to perform. Saying that, I really enjoyed 2006 so maybe it was just a one-off

BBC Twitter's just announced the death of former Man City and Chesterfield forward George Smith, who notably scored all of City's goals in a 4-1 win over Utd in 1946