Octopus of Odstock

Hit number 4 for my theme team and one of my most lingering personal survivors. Picked on my main team upon my 2022 return, retained for 2023 amd then moved to theme team for 2024 and 2025.

So, it looks like the rule of three was actually not Hollyoaks or Big Brother, but Manchester City. For Book was the captain of the title winning side in 1969. One of his team-mates was Bobby Kennedy who died on the 11th January, 2 days before Book. 3 City players dead in 6 days.

Probably the most appropriate thread: Ken Capstick, Bio and articles in the Guardian, former coalminer, the former Yorkshire vice-president of the National Union of Mineworkers, and former editor of the NUM journal The Miner, has died, whilst visting his family in Bulgaria.

Not only is he back in management, he's been given the all clear from bowel cancer. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/czrll7mp1yjo

Well, he's clearly not in a Scottish hospice.

Very sad news. Played in the 1981 Cup Final for Tottenham but I remember him best at Norwich and Reading.

Obit for Kvant here: https://europeansquash.com/lars-kvant-tribute-sweden-squash/

20 years on and Derek Martin is still breathing. Impressed by Benitez and his staying power. Probably need to update this for my more recent teams but looks like it'll be some while yet for a clean sweep.

Double pneumonia got her in the end

Looks like 11 left. Martin Patrick Foran, I can find no record in the GRO that he's gone. Same for Naomi Rachel Thomas. Unless they died in 2024 of course. All updated!

George Rhoden too. I'll check some of the more obscure names and update tonight (all being well).

Eliseo Alcon, a politician from New Mexico (New Mexico House of Representatives) who resigned in late 2024 due to a terminal cancer diagnosis, has now died. https://nmpoliticalreport.com/2025/01/13/alcon-dies-of-liver-cancer/ I thought a QO would be non-existent but wonder if anyone else took the plunge.

I can't see Trump making 90. I think Biden will go in his late 80's, Clinton in his early 80's, Trump about 85 ish. Bush I can see going into 90's (just). Obama... hard to tell, but he'll almost certainly outlive the others.

Awaiting QO: Joseph Monninger That Hong Kong chap

Black Bart QO https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dailystar.co.uk/news/us-news/wwe-legend-black-bart-dies-34454508.amp