Celebrity deaths always come in threes

Cory Monteith
Bert Trautmann
Mel Smith

Nobby Cheese wrote:Cory Monteith
Bert Trautmann
Mel Smith

I thought mel smith was older than 60. Maybe because he was fat and bald. Did like not the 9 o clock news and smith and jones though

RIP Mel  

Omission of Todd Bennett there, Tone...

NotBert wrote:Omission of Todd Bennett there, Tone...

I meant celebrity deaths always come along in fours of course.

Todd Bennett of course would, ironically, make a relay team. Fantastic athlete indoors who wasn't as good outdoors but was part of a relay team you'd always fancy in a shootout with Phil Brown on last leg.

His death aged me more than any of the others.

Ah, Phil Brown....the man that could run the 400 in a relay leg in 27 seconds, but never get inside a minute in a non relay.
Weird fuck.

Related to Don Quarrie. He could compete but couldn't run the clock.

We had a couple didn't we there? Mandela goes to the big screen, he dies. The BBC were going to do a 50 years on thing on the Great Train Robbery, Ronnie Biggs dies. I wrote to ITV and said "Any chance you can broadcast ASAP the Piers Morgan Story?"

Yep, celebrity deaths now officially upgraded to 'always come in fours'

Mandela
Joan Fontaine
Peter O' Toole
David Coleman.

Another fourfold landed in the last couple of days:

Phil Everly
James Avery
Barbara Lawrence
Eusebio

Rumour is that men mountains James Avery and Eusebio were the same person. James Earl Jones believed to be shitting himself

Terry Biddlecombe pops his clogs now.

In the historical column, Tone, what odds would you have given Dolores Hope outliving Bob's 100?

George Burns lived for 48 days after his 100th birthday.
Bob Hope lived for 59 days after his 100th birthday.
  

Dolores Hope got an extra couple of years in. Henry Kissinger is still kicking, I've just seen. Which proves that there are some that even Satan won't fucking take.

Simon Hoggart's checked out.

A few more from the football ranks Tone...../

Eric Barnes (29 November 1937 – 3 January 2014)[1] was an English professional footballer who played for Crewe Alexandra between 1957 and 1970.[2]

Sergey Semenovich Kozlov (Russian: Серге́й Семёнович Козло́в; 4 May 1960 – 4 January 2014) was a Russian football player and manager who primarily played as a midfielder and defender.

Sergey Kozlov died following a long illness on 4 January 2014, aged 53, in his hometown of Khabarovsk, Russia.[1]

Jafar Namdar (2 July 1934 – 1 January 2014) was an Iranian football referee.[1]
Refereeing career

Namdar officiated as a referee at the 1974 and 1978 FIFA World Cups.

When he refereed Australia vs Chile at the 1974 FIFA World Cup Namdar became only the second Asian referee (George Suppiah beat him by three days) to officiate as a referee at a FIFA World Cup.[2] In this match Namdar created controversy by showing three yellow cards to Australian player Ray Richards before showing a red card after being informed of his error by reserve official Clive Thomas.[3][4][5] He officiated as an assistant referee for the third place playoff between Brazil and Poland.[6]

Namdar refereed matches in the Football Tournaments at the 1972 ( USSR - Burma 1:0 and German Democratic Republic - Mexico 7:0 ) and 1976 Olympic Games ( France - Guatemala 4:1 ). [7][8]

He was Chief of the Iranian Referees Committee from 1970 until 1978.[9] Namdar died on 1 January 2014 at the age of 79.[1]


Carlos Antonio Padilla Velásquez (17 January 1934 – 6 January 2014) was a Honduran footballer and manager who has the record of winning most titles as coach in the Honduran football league.[1]
Managerial career

Nicknamed el Zorro, Padilla managed Motagua for a record 141 matches[2] from 19 July 1970 to 18 May 1975 (1,764 days).[3]

He is the only manager in Honduran league history to win titles with 4 different sides.[4]

Mustapha Zitouni (19 October 1928 – 5 January 2014)[1] was a professional footballer. He played international football for both France and Algeria.
Career

Born in Algiers, French Algeria, Zitouni played at the club level in France as a defender for Stade Français, AS Cannes and AS Monaco. He left his professional career in France in 1958 to represent the unofficial Algerian national side, which was then run by the National Liberation Front, a rebel group campaigning for Algerian independence.[2] He had previously represented the French national side.[3]

Never heard of any of them!

Ariel Sharon
Ian Redford (who released an autobiography as recently as November)
Spare seat next to Sharon

You young cunts probably won't remember him but ex Leeds hard man Bobby Collins has toed it upstairs today.

Trigger's dead;
  

Nobby Cheese wrote:Trigger's dead;
  

Colin "Trigger" Ball.

Introduced me to the concept/paradox of the Ship of Theseus

Off goes Chris Chataway

Bobby Collins one week, Tony Hateley the next.

Not forgetting Luis Aragonés