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  1. Posted

    44 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

    Lance Macklin's son Paddy Macklin, well known sailor, Telegraph Obituary: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/02/10/paddy-macklin-bibulous-free-spirit-who-sailed-round-world-solo/

     

    As previously noted, Lance himself died in 2002, so a wee death tag on this thread might be in order. ;)

     

    Lance was already dead when the thread was started. Bit of a duff suggestion :D

    Should've had the dead tag immediately!

  2. Posted

    36 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

    Lance Macklin's son Paddy Macklin, well known sailor, Telegraph Obituary: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/02/10/paddy-macklin-bibulous-free-spirit-who-sailed-round-world-solo/

     

    As previously noted, Lance himself died in 2002, so a wee death tag on this thread might be in order. ;)

     

    Oh, that is a tremendous shame. Sorry to hear this. The recent biography of Lance by Jack Barlow had a lot on Paddy and how Lance was both a good and bad influence in his life.

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  3. Posted

    On 30/04/2021 at 14:07, Ulitzer95 said:

    Josser Watling has become one of the ten first inductees into Bristol Rovers' Hall of Fame.

    Announcement here.

    Confirms he is the oldest player from the club still alive (not sure if that was known already?). Gives no recent update of him or a quote/reaction...

     

    Still alive, but according to Twitter, has fallen recently.

     

    GET WELL JOSSER

    Former Rovers defender Josser Watling broke his hip in a fall at home last week.

    He’s undergone successful surgery to fix the damage.

    Rovers oldest living player will be 98 in May and I’m sure I speak for all Rovers supporters in wishing him a complete recovery.

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  4. Posted

    2 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

    Jason Bowen, Swansea, Birmingham City, Cardiff and briefly Wales player, has had MND since 2021: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64584307

     

    You missed out his best club:P

     

    Ex-Reading as well and I remember him well as a classy winger, decent crosser of the ball.

     

    Worryingly, the statement didn't include a quote from Bowen directly, just his family which makes me fear he's more likely to be a quicker death than some of the 5/6 years on average for others.

     

    Really sad, but these MND cases are only likely to increase.

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  6. Posted

    On 12/11/2021 at 10:17, Deathrace said:

    Of the currently living West German final XI:

     

    Hottges (born 1943)

    Schulz (born 1938)

    Weber (born 1944)

    Schnellinger (born 1939)

    Beckenbauer (born 1945)

    Overath (born 1943)

    Seeler (born 1936)

    Held (born 1942)

     

    Of the living West German squad members: 

    Hornig (born 1937)

    Lutz (born 1939)

    Patzke (born 1943)

    Lorenz (born 1939)

    Paul (born 1940)

    Grabowski (born 1944)

    Bernard (born 1939)

    Maier (born 1944)

     

    So of the starting XI, three are already well into their 80s along with five others in the squad. I'm not an actuary and with Covid on the rise in Germany and being footballers of this generation some of these guys may not be in great shape but you'd have to say the chances are at least one of these octogenarians will make it to be nonagenarians. 

    England pull one back.

     

    Friedel Lutz has died https://newsrnd.com/amp/2023-02-08-football--former-national-player-friedel-lutz-is-dead.BJWV7Qbpi.html

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  8. Posted

    I don't think she'll make DDP fame requirements, but Jacqueline Beltoise, widow of Jean-Pierre and sister of Francois Cevert, is, according to this obituary of Jabouille, in the same hospital/clinic that Jabouille was.

     

    https://www.autonewsinfo.com/2023/02/02/deces-de-jean-pierre-jabouille-412407.html 

     

    It mentions Jacques Laffite, the third poorly driver mentioned by Peter Windsor in the tweet (Tambay and Jabouille being the now deceased duo) visited Jabouille last night so he's still active (of sorts).

  11. Posted

    On 29/01/2023 at 22:05, gcreptile said:

    Natalie Fornasier, the very, very, very marginal writer, basically only notable as a cancer blogger, has died:

    https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/aussie-writer-natalie-fornasier-dies-at-28-after-losing-terminal-cancer-battle-c-9595384

     

    Fornasier ended up getting QO's from The Mirror, Yahoo and the Daily Mail https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11690577/amp/Sydney-writer-Natalie-Fornasier-dies-battle-melanoma.html

     

    Reason I say this is not to bitch about disqualification but that it's clear the influencer/blogger type is virtually a shoe-in for obits, especially if young.

    Unfortunately for DDP purposes, she wasn't as influential as required.

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  13. Posted

    Not quite sure why I can't embed tweets like I used to, but there's an up to date photo of Prunella in Sam West's tweet. She looks ok.

     

    Ma in Millbank Pizza Express. New hat, decorated by grandchildren

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  16. Posted

    11 minutes ago, drol said:

    Dario Jara Saguier dead at 92.

     

    Carbajal is now the last man standing.

     

     

     I see that the article has Munoz alive, but it does 100 per cent confirm all the Paraguayans are dead.

    In World Cup terms, this is actually quite a seismic death. Just one survivor of the 1950 World Cup, albeit 73 years on. How fitting it should be the first man to play in 5 World Cups and not some Bolivian centre half who played in one game.

  17. Posted

    Amazing work, thank you all.

     

    I almost hate to say it, but @Banana and @Death Impends Just to say that I picked the wildlife Simon Cowell, not the X factor one. Pleasantly surprised to get two uniques although fully admit I'm chancing it a bit with Tongo's QO chances. But you've got to take risks sometimes..

    Also learnt from last year and have 14 drop 40. Delighted Winnie Ewing wasn't drop 40 which made the decision to drop her a wise tactical move.

     

    PS let me know if I can help in any form 

     

  18. Posted

    1 hour ago, Death Impends said:

    As with last year, keeping in with interests of transparency, here are names we DQed from the 2023 DDP, including names that were queried about but not actually submitted:

     

    Also a deadpooler submitted themselves as a pick! If you yourself are not at least vaguely notable, please do not do so.

     

    Ha! That reminds me when someone picked me for the 2009 DDP, presumably annoyed at how I ran 2008.

    Irony is that back then I would be disqualified, nowadays I should pass the fame test.

     

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  22. Posted

    1 hour ago, msc said:

    EDIT - nInja'd by Crem.

     

    Weird, on my feed, you're first and Crem is Dunning you for something he and anyone else hasnt posted.

    Yet if you put Anton Walkes into search, Crems post is there...

  25. Posted

    2 minutes ago, nantonian2013 said:

    Original source appears to be this Zambian Observer article

     

    Loved watching Mwepu for the Albion and can only hope he pulls through.

    I'd you read the rather entertaining article in full, it appears to be a problem with the pacemaker as opposed to cardiac arrest or anything more sinister. 

    But the poor lad really has had a lot of rotten luck

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