En Passant

New Zealand by 65 France by 30

The obvious being that this is the DL equivalent of a space ark. You pass your team on to your kids.

Australia by 50 England by 15 Japan by 20

SA by 20

If that isn't made up, it should have been. *Not having a pop Phantom, my lack of knowledge about celebs is legendary.

Fiji by 20 Ireland by 40

Richard Whitmore wants to know if it's because he didn't go to university? Says he's been overlooked all his life, which is still ongoing...

Technically speaking, he didn't make the list. Hence setting Creepy off with: And a good job too. P But no, I'd never heard of him either until he cropped up hereabouts.

This biggest misses by the committee thing again? I'm not certain how many times it's been re-iterated that DL started in the UK and it is still a UK committee (afaik, I'm not privy to such information) but it's more than a few. Why do these folk who are not famous at all in the UK keep getting tagged as (enter hyperbole of choice) misses? Rant done.

You're a touch late on that one.

France by 23 New Zealand by 41

I'm confused. You have to list 50 (and only 50) people with a maximum age of 69 (edit and obviously a minimum of 59), all famous enough to get a BBC obit and every single one of them must die before this is complete? I know I'm not much on research but that seems an extremely tall order. Clearly I'm missing something obvious.

See? You know more than I did (do). You're faking this wooden spoon lark :P. Samoa by 10. Based on Neal Pearson and Stephen Tompkinson in a sitcom about 25 years ago shouting "Western Samoa" down a phone to Max Boyce about some unlikely win over Wales. (Obviously for the purposes of a laugh in the script rather than in reality) Must be a dark horse.... For a bonus point (no, I know I don't have that power) name the sitcom.

Uruguay by 25 Australia by 35

Argentina by 5 Ireland by 10 South Africa by 35

The answer is a few posts above.

2 of 4 bobs. 2 of 7 sports. 1 of 3 football. 1 of 4 centenarians. 2 of 2 Johns (There's an off-colour joke in there somewhere). No set is now clear of a hit. One is completed. Is this of the slightest interest to anyone? No. Of course not. But I'm not last, am in fact joint top on direct hits, didn't go out in a stupid fashion by entering a team too late and have some chance of improving in the last 3 months of the year. It's a non-crash and burn and I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

One of these days your dedication will be rewarded, it may even be that time.. ...nah, it's Ginger Baker.

Making the voting in "Who is the 10th death..." something of a landslide one suspects. Once the thread goes up.

Italy by 25 England by 35

Fiji by 38

Hang this, got to make a difference somewhere Russia by 5.

Wales by 15.

Prince Andrew: You did, didn't you?