drol 12,446 Posted December 18, 2024 6 hours ago, gcreptile said: Former Juventus player Simone Muratore has been forced to retire after an "aggressive brain tumor": https://www.footboom1.com/en/news/football/2187139-the-heartbreaking-letter-of-a-player-retiring-at-26-due-to-an-aggressive-brain-tumor You are quite omitting he made a complete recovery since, aren't you ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 11,305 Posted December 18, 2024 1 hour ago, drol said: You are quite omitting he made a complete recovery since, aren't you ? No, but my quotation marks are meant to slightly mock the usage of the word "aggressive". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,671 Posted December 18, 2024 28 minutes ago, gcreptile said: No, but my quotation marks are meant to slightly mock the usage of the word "aggressive". The Scott Thorson Gambit really wouldn't work in today's forum. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 11,305 Posted December 18, 2024 23 minutes ago, msc said: The Scott Thorson Gambit really wouldn't work in today's forum. That's DDP hit Scott Thorson for you! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,671 Posted December 18, 2024 28 minutes ago, gcreptile said: That's DDP hit Scott Thorson for you! I think Lee Evans was a deadpool hit about a decade after the trap too? Yet Ryan Buell lives on with his Stage 6 pancreatic brain ALS. And whatever happened to that vegetarian drag act with Creutzfeldt-Jacob despite never touching beef? (A fatal illness I always remember the name of, thanks to that X-Files episode with the cannibals, which, Google tells me, I saw 30 years ago next year. We're all getting old.) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,721 Posted December 18, 2024 20 minutes ago, msc said: I think Lee Evans was a deadpool hit about a decade after the trap too? Yet Ryan Buell lives on with his Stage 6 pancreatic brain ALS. And whatever happened to that vegetarian drag act with Creutzfeldt-Jacob despite never touching beef? (A fatal illness I always remember the name of, thanks to that X-Files episode with the cannibals, which, Google tells me, I saw 30 years ago next year. We're all getting old.) Aaahh you mean young Ritchii Kara, who is now middle-aged Ritchii Kara. Still living, and still loving life going by his SM posts!. Its over eleven years since he hit the headlines with only "months to live" (though to be fair, there was never a specific number of months mentioned). Actually scratch that last part, according to our local news reports, he was given 14 months in August 2012! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,690 Posted December 18, 2024 From what I understand, Kara sort of got caught up in a media rush around a misunderstanding of his diagnosis, and never got around to correcting news stories (in fairness he only gave a couple of interviews, a lot of the Kara content out there is prime churn-era journalism "rewriting a story we saw elsewhere with no new content"). 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,721 Posted December 18, 2024 4 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said: From what I understand, Kara sort of got caught up in a media rush around a misunderstanding of his diagnosis, and never got around to correcting news stories (in fairness he only gave a couple of interviews, a lot of the Kara content out there is prime churn-era journalism "rewriting a story we saw elsewhere with no new content"). He did say at the time "my memory's bad..." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octopus of Odstock 2,241 Posted December 18, 2024 2 hours ago, msc said: The Scott Thorson Gambit really wouldn't work in today's forum. This is why, between December 1st and 31st, I ignore any suggestions from Mr Cooley esq. Which is dangerous as then he could be double bluffing but all adds to the fun! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 8,181 Posted December 18, 2024 1 minute ago, Octopus of Odstock said: This is why, between December 1st and 31st, I ignore any suggestions from Mr Cooley esq. Which is dangerous as then he could be double bluffing but all adds to the fun! Yeah, I assumed Spade's posts from late 2018 stating that Peter Tork was in bad shape were another Thorson gambit. Then two months later... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,690 Posted December 18, 2024 Originally we had the Lee Evans gambiting, deliberately hyping up someone with a low-grade, treatable cancer in December. Then we did the reverse of that, which was going so gung-ho on a solid pick that people thought you were bluffing. Then it was just buck-shotting the board with a mix of good and bad info in December so nobody could work out what was viable data. The next great dark art of deadpooling is yet to be discovered, though. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,704 Posted December 19, 2024 Tony Bentley Wiki has died aged 84. The Sun Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,402 Posted December 21, 2024 Kenyan footballer Ezekiel Otuoma has died of Motor Neuron Disease at age 31. https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/cm2e71l7xkdo 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,704 Posted December 22, 2024 On 20/06/2024 at 09:52, gcreptile said: Louis Van Gaal update, describes his life with cancer: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/28594189/man-utd-louis-van-gaal-cancer/ Nothing dramatic, but it seems terminal. Ajax Manager dedicated their Victory today to him but wouldn’t say why. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,488 Posted December 27, 2024 Mickey Bullock, former centre forward with Leyton Orient, Birmingham City, Oxford United and Halifax Town, reportedly dead: https://www.leytonorient.com/news/2024/december/27/mickey-bullock--1946-2024-/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathrace 1,203 Posted December 27, 2024 Frank McLintock was just shown on Prime watching tonight's Arsenal v Ipswich game. According to the commentator he's 85 tomorrow. Clearly still well enough to attend night matches. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,704 Posted December 29, 2024 Former West Ham goalkeeper Ludek Miklosko has announced his decision to withdraw from further cancer treatment, three years after his diagnosis. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cgj6p83w17vo https://www.whufc.com/news/ludek-miklosko-my-biggest-battle 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
justonecornetto 1,000 Posted December 29, 2024 Scottish born goalkeeper Charlie Wright who had a long career in England playing for Workington, Grimsby Town, Charlton and Bolton has died aged 86 Obit from Bolton Wanderers who he also managed https://www.bwfc.co.uk/news/charlie-wright-1938-2024 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sly Ronnie 949 Posted December 29, 2024 57 minutes ago, The Old Crem said: Former West Ham goalkeeper Ludek Miklosko has announced his decision to withdraw from further cancer treatment, three years after his diagnosis. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cgj6p83w17vo https://www.whufc.com/news/ludek-miklosko-my-biggest-battle See, Sven. That's how you do it! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MarcJWallace 270 Posted December 29, 2024 Aleksey Bugayev, who played for Russia at Euro 2004 killed in action in Ukraine aged 43. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,671 Posted December 29, 2024 11 minutes ago, MarcJWallace said: Aleksey Bugayev, who played for Russia at Euro 2004 killed in action in Ukraine aged 43. Seems like he got jailed for drug possession in summer and immediately thrown out to Ukraine as canon fodder, which says a lot. Who knew Putin still held a grudge over that Russia/Portugal game from Euro 2004? 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,704 Posted December 31, 2024 Cliftonville defender Michael Newberry has died suddenly at the age of 27. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c8ew80ze410o 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 12,446 Posted December 31, 2024 3 minutes ago, The Old Crem said: Cliftonville defender Michael Newberry has died suddenly at the age of 27. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c8ew80ze410o On his birthday... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octopus of Odstock 2,241 Posted Wednesday at 18:51 Gordon Pulley, Gillingham stalwart, died just before Christmas, aged 88. Played over 200 games for the Kent side. https://www.gillinghamfootballclub.com/news/rip-gordon-pulley-1936-2024 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ObakeFilter 1,011 Posted Wednesday at 19:01 The Rangers goalkeeper Jack Butland spent Tuesday night in hospital after what he has described as “significant” internal bleeding in his leg. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jan/01/rangers-jack-butland-hospital-internal-bleeding?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
