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  1. Posted

    34 minutes ago, ladyfiona said:

     

    I remember when he was doing something like Pole to Pole or Sahara, that there was a medical issue with his wife but she convinced him to continue filming. It's actually in one of the behind the scenes documentary. I have most of his books so could probably find it written in there as well.

     

    I know when away he would speak to her nearly every day.

     

    Brain tumour. But she didn't tell him until after the surgery as she didn't want to come back and fret and to continue filming. When he knew he was in the remotest South East Asian village and it took him ages to get back.

     

    So it must've been Full Circle about 25 years ago.

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  3. Posted

    1 hour ago, Spade_Cooley said:

     

    Anyone reading anything into him retiring as a pundit with only six games of the season left? Seems odd to step down now rather than just hold on for a month...

     

    Cheaper holidays now than six weeks innit?

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  7. Posted

    26 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/22134854/ex-england-ace-in-brain-injury-damages-suit/
    player from the 1990’s who won the European cup has Brain damage. Only one English team won that in the 1990’s and that was Man United in 1999. Through most of those have more than several caps and have all been in the media recently appearing healthy.

     

    Probably Gordon Cowans. Has dementia, won the European Cup in 1982, played in the 1990's and had several games for England. 

     

    If not him, then you're looking at one of the players from the early 1980s that had a long career into the 1990's.

     

     

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  8. Posted

    On 12/02/2020 at 01:54, Toast said:

     

    Mrs Warboys  Doreen Mantle duly sat for her portrait.  She seemed a little frail and needed assistance to walk across the studio, but she explained that her eyesight has deteriorated to the point where she can only see shapes and colours so that may be the main reason she needed help.  Otherwise she said she was very well, and she is certainly still in possession of all her marbles.  :)

     

    Doreen Mantle appeared on television to remember One Foot in the Grave.

    Her eyes remained virtually closed all the way through, which ties in with her loss of eyesight (ie she can't look at the camera as she can't see it), with her adding only the basic information and looking quite gaunt. Not someone you think will make 100. 

    However, at the age of 96, to talk for what mustve been around 10 minutes means she might be made of stronger stuff than her frame suggests.

    Richard Wilson looked a lot better than other things I've seen him in recently, but there was no Annette Crosbie, albeit she is 89 now.

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  9. Posted

    On 11/12/2020 at 12:44, RolandDeschain said:

    What about Ray Brooks who played the bartender in Carry On Abroad?

     

    82 next year and his last role was also in Eastenders (13 years ago) 

     

    He's well known for other stuff mainly like Mr Benn, Big Deal etc but may be considered too young and with no word on his condition the committee may cast his inclusion aside.

     

    Photo of Ray Brooks from yesterday - https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=612314554266222&set=a.466972278800451

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    Not really Hollywood, but she did appear in a few major British films in the 1950's. Moiya Kelly,  probably best known as Martha Cratchit in the 1951 film, Scrooge died in January.

    Also appeared in Belle of St Trinian's and Love Lottery, with other stage and television appearances.

    Best link I can find is one from Twitter. Presumably the family replied as I've not seen anything else - 

     

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  11. Posted

    Long-time Hartlepool United goalkeeper Kenny Simpkins died on the 1st March. Also played for Wrexham, but it was a 5 year spell at Hartlepool that he'll be best remembered for, being a key part of the the side - Brian Clough's first managerial position. One of his team-mates was John McGovern, later to follow Clough and become Nottingham Forest's European Cup winning captain.

    Simpkins, who played for the Welsh U-23 team, also scored a goal in one of the 121 matches he played for 'pool. Due to a massive injury list, he was picked to play up-front, scoring in a 3-2 win over Port Vale.

     

    Hartlepool are about to be relegated to the National League, where Wrexham, Simpkins' other former club, have been promoted from today.

     

    https://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/people/tributes-paid-to-hartlepool-united-goalscoring-goalkeeper-ken-simkins-after-his-death-aged-79-4045986

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    Hedley Muscroft. who played in the Open Championship 16 times, with a best of eighteenth in the 1967 Open Championship, died last month.

     

    Won the first (of only two) Classic International tournaments in 1970 and played on the European Tour. He died last month - https://www.pga.info/news/hedley-muscroft-1938-2023/

     

    Another former Open Championship competitor, Scotsman Stuart Murray (Best place 40th in 1964, 3 times a competitor), who enjoyed a successful amateur career in the early 1960's, died in January - https://www.pga.info/news/stuart-murray-1933-2023

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    Bolivian football success is extremely rare. They've not qualified much for the World Cup and only won one Copa America, a quite remarkable achievement considering Brazil were World Champions and Argentina were regulars World Cup qualifiers. But Chile and Uruguay refused to take part in an event held in Bolivia.

     

    One of the key players of that team, Renan Lopez, died last month, aged 83. https://www.lostiempos.com/deportes/futbol/20230310/luto-futbol-nacional-fallece-historico-renan-lopez,. Bolivian records re. former players is rubbish, but he's at least the fourth of the squad to die  (Alcocer, Ugarte, Aramayo definitely dead).

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  19. Posted

    Malika El-Aroud, one of "Europe's most prominent internet jihadists", probably complicit, along with her husband (who died in the suicide bombing) in the assassination of Afghan defence minister, Ahmad Shah Massoud in 2001, then married another terrorist, before eventually being jailed for jihadist propaganda, has died, aged 64.

     

    https://www.belganewsagency.eu/internet-jihadist-malika-el-aroud-dies-at-64

     

    No loss.

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  20. Posted

    So you'd expect the below, with one game for Gillingham and a very popular name to be one of those on the list that are almost certainly dead, but with no evidence to confirm it, like the likes of Mike Kelly, Eddie Martin and Bill Mellor.

    But no, not a bit of it!

    https://www.gmfc.net/greenock-morton-celebrate-the-birthday-of-jimmy-mcdonald/ ,which even made Yahoo news - Yahoo News

     

    Jimmy

    McDonald

    		18/04/1932 Gillingham, Dumbarton, Morton

     

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  21. Posted

    33 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

    Former Dudley police commander Chris Johnson QPM has died 3 years after an MND diagnosis:

    https://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2023/04/22/former-dudley-police-commander-dies-three-years-after-mnd-diagnosis/

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-65353892

     

    Somehow slipped through our fingers and is, for example, not picked by the police theme team.

     

    I never picked him as I thought he would be disqualified for FFBI to be honest.

     

    Sad news.

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  23. Posted

    I'm going to stick up for Diego here. In his posts, he actually gives context to the death (from Wiki recent deaths) and a photo .

    Then compare that to The Old Crems posts above. Also copied from Wiki recent deaths but with no information about the player other than a link. 

     

     

     

     

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  25. Posted

    7 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

    From the Detective Work thread

     

    Andy Mullen reportedly dead: https://cumbriacrack.com/2023/04/14/workington-reds-andy-mullen-dies-aged-94/

     

    Played in Workington Reds first ever football league game.

     

    And by referring to Mullen as their oldest surviving player, this rules out Graham Miller as being alive. They would have mentioned him if he were alive as he also played in their first season. John Scott - 10 days older than Mullen - and definitely still alive as per Cumbria Golf Union, played for Workington before they were in the football league.

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