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Their loss, our gain I suppose. Sad to see him go - very quick.

Sorry, in order this time! Vialli, Gianluca Harris, Rolf Starmer-Smith, Nigel Nolan, Linda Whale, James Alagiah, George Topol, Chaim Tebbit, Norman Blythe, Ronald Spencer, June Barker, Bob Hemingway, Flying Officer John Scargill, Arthur McAlpine, Kenneth Clarke, Roy Johns, Glynis Belafonte, Harry Wyatt, Oscar Constantine II of Greece Weldon, Fay Watson, James de Gaulle, Philippe Solow, Robert Field, Frank Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah McGarvey, Frank Le Pen, Jean-Marie Irwin, Jonnie Hogan, Paul Charlton, Bobby Forrest, Frederic Delors, Jacques MacGowan, Shane Carter, Jimmy Hurd, Douglas Musharraf, General Pervez Doherty, Shannen Cooke, Sidney Ono, Yoko Graham, David Jackson, Randy Ronstadt, Linda Collins, Phil Parkinson, Michael Goodyear, Julie Greenway, Harry Hardy, Francoise Cousins, Dave Putin, Vladimir Taylor, Andy I got 17 this year so pretty pleased with that haul.

For what its worth, here's my 50 Constantine II of Greece Cooke, Sidney Cousins, Dave de Gaulle, Philippe Delors, Jacques Doherty, Shannen Field, Frank Forrest, Frederic Goodyear, Julie Graham, David Greenway, Harry Hardy, Francoise Harris, Rolf Hemingway, Flying Officer John Hogan, Paul Hurd, Douglas Irwin, Jonnie Jackson, Randy Johns, Glynis Le Pen, Jean-Marie MacGowan, Shane McAlpine, Kenneth McGarvey, Frank Musharraf, General Pervez Nolan, Linda Ono, Yoko Parkinson, Michael Putin, Vladimir Ronstadt, Linda Scargill, Arthur Solow, Robert Spencer, June Starmer-Smith, Nigel Taylor, Andy Tebbit, Norman Topol, Chaim Vialli, Gianluca Watson, James Weldon, Fay Whale, James Wyatt, Oscar

Feels that way doesn't it - had my fingers burned a few times like that. Tend to ignore them now.

There was always a fat lad raging to get out there. Luke Shaw is similar, bet he goes tubby pretty quickly after he retires.

Natural Causes, She Wrote

A quality player for Bristol Rovers with a fantastic football brain - like Teddy Sheringham, he made up for a lack of acceleration and pace by being a step ahead of everyone else. Sad news.

Whose is the crutch, I wonder?

Olivia Colman cast as Hannah Ingrams-Moore is an absolute shoo-in.

Can you imagine? Two former Popes shuffling around - there'll be more of them than still-living Man Utd managers at this rate.

A comprehensive list of Mexico 86 players no longer with us - a surprising amount https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/mexico86hq/687076886819536896?source=share Twitter thread here if Tumblr gets arsey

Pal of mine swears he's an alcoholic - "he's got the face of someone who knocks back half a bottle of Scotch a day". He's Scottish so I guess he's seen a few in his time.

You're getting boring now.

Boyz II Men II Dead

Well you say that - a lot of lessons will be learned by the doctors off this as it's almost impossible to get human guinea pigs for this sort of thing. I would not be surprised if this surgery becomes mildly successful by the time I hit pensionable age. I'll take Percy Pig's ticker, please!

I read an interesting article the other day tracing the ancestry of many modern day Ukrainians of the central belt as being descendents of Viking stock (and when you visit Kiev/Kyiv, there are vast amounts of natural blondes - in no way Slav) who have carried over the 'beserker' culture of their ancestors. Certainly the huge balls of the Ukrainian troops and their fierce resistance gives that claim a bit of credence. From a personal PoV I spent a week over there in 2019. Speaking to a number of them it was pretty clear that they had fractured with Russia and were looking west to emulate Poland/the Baltics, so their resolve to stand their ground doesn't surprise me. Horrible to think what situation these people are currently in.

51! Jesus. Mind you it barely registers that I'm in my 40s... Anyway, here she is at the 2018 reunion alongside fellow cast member Fiona Mowlem (Laura Regan) who is now a parish councillor just up the road from me. Small world.

Yes indeed, I got my Bambers and my Magnus' mixed-up. No starter for 10 for me! Ironic as I actually appeared on the show, but during the Paxman era. Yes, we lost!

He started and now he's finished.

I've been enjoying all these Barry Cryer stories and jokes on Twitter today. Making people smile despite them feeling sad at your death is quite the legacy.

Not sure if this has cropped up in the preceding 136 pages, but this website (https://soccernostalgia.blogspot.com/) does a pretty good job once a quarter of listing the football dead from around the world, along with a swift bio (if you scroll down a bit past the list itself) eg https://soccernostalgia.blogspot.com/2022/01/tributes-part-29-october-2021-through.html

Learning the hard way that the media will always obit their own, regardless

Tried to talk sense into me. He failed.

Thanks

Time for a change I think, to: Imelda After the best Grange Hill character ever. The death stare picture I found a while ago I think suits as a profile pic rather well.