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OwlsFan
25/04/2007, 9:00 AM
Apparently he died shortly after watching the Man U vs Milan game and hadn't been ill.

An irritating voice but a good player. I think he had spells as a manager as well but can't remember where (Preston?).
gustavo
25/04/2007, 9:05 AM
Portsmouth and Man City most notably
BohsPartisan
25/04/2007, 9:18 AM
Just realised it was the same day a year ago that Ball's Everton Team mate Brian Labone died. Howard Kendall Joe Royle and Colin Harvey beware the 24th of April!

Alan Ball Remembered (http://www.evertonfc.com/news/archive/alan-ball-a-true-everton-great.html)
OwlsFan
25/04/2007, 1:05 PM
So that's just Bobby Moore and Alan Ball gone from the WC Winning team of 1966. I may be wrong but I think Jack C was the only one whom was a successful manager of the lot.
pineapple stu
25/04/2007, 6:02 PM
Apparently he died shortly after watching the Man U vs Milan game and hadn't been ill.
He took a heart attack while putting out a bonfire in his garden which had gotten a bit out of control, according to the BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/6590715.stm). Was due to be playing in a charity golf tournament for the Heart Foundation today.
OneRedArmy
15/05/2007, 9:04 PM
Jerry Falwell, right wing American fundamentalist evangelist and "outter" of notorious homosexual Tinky Winky of the Teletubbies.

Cheerio, shut the door on your way out......
joeSoap
16/05/2007, 12:44 PM
Diego Corrales (http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2524406.ece). World Class Boxer.
OwlsFan
18/06/2007, 12:51 PM
Kurt Waldheim, former head of the UN and member of the SS. They don't quite go together.
BohsPartisan
18/06/2007, 1:53 PM
Kurt Waldheim, former head of the UN and member of the SS. They don't quite go together.

Or do they?
the 12 th man
18/06/2007, 4:06 PM
Bernard Manning ,not everybodys cup of tea,died today aged 76.
OwlsFan
19/06/2007, 9:07 AM
I always remember Manning telling the "joke": "An Irish library has been burned down but they managed to save the one book in it". This from a moron like him really got under my skin.

His career went down hill when racist jokes were no longer pc. What a shame for him :D
BohsPartisan
19/06/2007, 9:11 AM
Bernard manning, horrible, horrible man. Always got him confused with Bernard Mathews of Turkey products fame when I was a kid.
NeilMcD
19/06/2007, 9:48 AM
Bit of a suprise.


Manning was born into an Irish Catholic family in 1930 in Ancoats, one of Manchester's poorest suburbs, the second of three brothers and two sisters.
OwlsFan
19/06/2007, 11:03 AM
I suppose he did well for himself considering his background but to make a successful career on the back of racist jokes, well we've all laughed at them on occasions but that doesn't make it right.
Wolfie
19/06/2007, 12:52 PM
Manning To wife: "Pack your case, I've won the Lottery".

Mannings Wife: "Brilliant. Where are we going".

Manning: "I'm going nowhere. Now get the f*ck out and don't come back". :D

Mildy amusing. He obviously diversified into mysogyny at times. Multi talented!!! :rolleyes:
OneRedArmy
24/06/2007, 1:50 PM
Derek Dougan, Northern Ireland international and one of the driving forces behind the 1973 Shamrock Rovers Select vs Brazil that featured a joint North South international team.

Dougan never played for Northern Ireland again......:mad:
OwlsFan
25/06/2007, 7:42 AM
Not sure that had anything to do with it though. Was nearing the end of his career I think at the time but may be wrong.

R.I.P.
OneRedArmy
25/06/2007, 8:02 AM
Not sure that had anything to do with it though. Was nearing the end of his career I think at the time but may be wrong.

R.I.P.Coincidence that he was repeatedly warned not to go ahead with the game or he would never be capped again by world class bigot and (alleged) crooked football administrator Harry Cavan (Head of IFA) and then subsequently wasn't capped?
OwlsFan
25/06/2007, 11:57 AM
Coincidence that he was repeatedly warned not to go ahead with the game or he would never be capped again by world class bigot and (alleged) crooked football administrator Harry Cavan (Head of IFA) and then subsequently wasn't capped?

Seems you were right about the game costing Dougan his international career, although he did retire totally from football a couple of years later anyway.

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/football.cfm?id=183212004

Not sure why you would describe Cavan as a "bigot", though. Unionist and IFA supporter does not necessarily = bigot.
OneRedArmy
25/06/2007, 12:38 PM
Not sure why you would describe Cavan as a "bigot", though. Unionist and IFA supporter does not necessarily = bigot.DO a bit of reading into his treatment of Derry City and make up your own mind.
OwlsFan
25/06/2007, 1:48 PM
Came across this on an old foot.ie post

http://foot.ie/archive/index.php/t-7818.html

Does a bias against Derry City = bigotry? Did Derry City at the time = Catholicism? I doubt it so without wishing to engage in semantics, I am not sure you can call Cavan a bigot because he didn't like Derry City or the nationalist following which it predominantly had. Did he try and do down Cliftonville as well ? It was interesting though that the Glentoran Chairman supported the Derry move to the LoI because he didn't like the treatment handed out to Derry.
Paddy Garcia
25/06/2007, 8:32 PM
Came across this on an old foot.ie post

http://foot.ie/archive/index.php/t-7818.html



That is a very good post, were they all of that quality back then?
sligoman
26/06/2007, 12:21 AM
Chris Benoit, WWE wrestler. Found dead in his home today. RIP.
tetsujin1979
26/06/2007, 12:44 AM
it wasn't just him, it was his wife and son too - http://www.wwe.com/inside/news/benoitdead
Benoit was always one of my favorite wrestlers. Not the best on the mike, but fantastic in the ring.
DmanDmythDledge
26/06/2007, 12:58 AM
****. He was always underused by the WWE and was the best wrestler in the business IMO. RIP.
OwlsFan
28/06/2007, 12:04 PM
Jupp Derwall, coach of the German side which won the European Championship in 1980 and got to the World Cup final two years later. Also coached Galatasaray.
OwlsFan
06/07/2007, 8:48 AM
George Melly, jazz singer and author.
the 12 th man
29/07/2007, 7:34 PM
English Actor/Comedian Mike Reid star of Runaround & Eastenders died of a heart attack today in Spain aged 67.


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One of my fav Mike Reid jokes

went back to this birds house the other night f--k me she had freakin teddy bears and dolls all around her bed on shelves 100s of the things anyways, i giv it a good seeing to,and after were aving a fag
and i says to her,How was it for you,

She turned around and said you can ave anything off the bottom shelf.
OwlsFan
30/07/2007, 5:06 PM
... Ingmar Bergman, all the ticking clocks in his movies over the years finally caught up with him.
tricky_colour
30/07/2007, 8:23 PM
Mike Reid, apparently he will be buried at the same time as two other people.
The three coffins will be carried solumnly to the side of a grave and then the priest in charge will shout "Run Around".

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4HRs6DGeLbw
strangeirish
30/07/2007, 8:24 PM
Bill Walsh, former NFL coaching great. San Francisco 49ers legend.
OwlsFan
31/07/2007, 3:27 PM
Charles Whiting, author of numerous WW2 books (my passion after Irish soccer). He also wrote under the name Leo Kessler which portrayed the war from the German side but wasn't as good as Sven Hassel.
Jerry The Saint
31/07/2007, 4:28 PM
... Ingmar Bergman, all the ticking clocks in his movies over the years finally caught up with him.


Mike Reid, apparently he will be buried at the same time as two other people.
The three coffins will be carried solumnly to the side of a grave and then the priest in charge will shout "Run Around".

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4HRs6DGeLbw

They do say these things come in threes...

Michelangelo Antonioni, the Italian film director whose modernist style created such haunting, enigmatic films as L'Avventura and Blow Up, died Monday at his home in Italy; he was 94.

Three giants of European arthouse cinema gone within a few days:(
OwlsFan
02/08/2007, 8:19 AM
Tommy Makem. The Clancy brothers and Tommy Makem. There was a time when you couldn't turn on the TV without seeing them in their Aran pullovers singing ballads and traditional Irish music.
tetsujin1979
11/08/2007, 3:11 AM
Tony Wilson, the guy behind Factory Records, the Hacienda, Happy Mondays New Order and everything else died of cancer yesterday evening: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6941392.stm
OneRedArmy
27/08/2007, 12:52 PM
Pat the Baker, Pat Higgins to give him his full name, founder of the eponymous bread firm.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0827/higginsp.html
Pauro 76
06/09/2007, 5:43 AM
Tenor Luciano Pavarotti

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6981032.stm

One of 'The Three Tenors' and singer of 'Nessun Dorma' for Italia 90. The song was probably better than the tournament.
OwlsFan
06/09/2007, 6:23 AM
Tenor Luciano Pavarotti

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6981032.stm

One of 'The Three Tenors' and singer of 'Nessun Dorma' for Italia 90. The song was probably better than the tournament.

Except as far as the Irish were concerned ;)
First
06/09/2007, 7:20 AM
Jane Tomlinson, who died on Monday aged 43, was a radiographer and amateur athlete whose prodigious fund-raising efforts for cancer charities as she fought the disease herself were widely acclaimed as inspirational; she began to run competitively only when told she had two years at most to live, although in the event she survived for nearly seven.
Pauro 76
06/09/2007, 9:41 AM
Except as far as the Irish were concerned ;)

I went to a Pavarotti gig once. Right miserable sod he was. He doesnt like it when you join in.
OwlsFan
06/09/2007, 11:51 AM
I went to a Pavarotti gig once. Right miserable sod he was. He doesnt like it when you join in.

Obviously never heard of an Irish singalong then ;)
Block G Raptor
09/09/2007, 4:58 PM
Pavorotti's missus rang her local funeral directors and asked if they could do a funeral for a tenor ...........the told her to fcuk off

TAAXXXXXXXXXXXI for BGR
OwlsFan
11/09/2007, 9:54 AM
....Jane Wyman. Famous actress and first wife of Ronald Reagan.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0943837/

..Anita Roddick but I wasn't a frequenter of the Body Shops as anyone who knows me would obviously testify.
Magicme
11/09/2007, 10:03 AM
Aw god, Anita was one of my inspirations in life, a strong business woman who cared about the earth as much as her profits. Cant believe she has dropped dead like that. RIP Anita. (I dont buy much in body shop coz dont really use many cosmetics but I always admired their ethos)
OwlsFan
12/09/2007, 8:55 AM
Ian Porterfield, scorer of that famous winning FA Cup goal for Sunderland.
Pauro 76
12/09/2007, 9:05 AM
Ian Porterfield, scorer of that famous winning FA Cup goal for Sunderland.


and was the last manager of Armenia. He kept charge of them while still ill and led them to a recent 1-1 draw with Portugal! :eek: R.I.P.
OwlsFan
13/09/2007, 6:52 AM
and was the last manager of Armenia. He kept charge of them while still ill and led them to a recent 1-1 draw with Portugal! :eek: R.I.P.

He also played for and managed (but then so have about 100 people in the last 20 years :rolleyes:) Sheffield Wednesday but I shall never forget Sunderland's victory over Leeds that day which was the stongest English team of that generation with Giles, Bremner, Lorimer, Clarke etc. One of the all time "shocks".
Pauro 76
24/09/2007, 8:01 AM
Marcel Marceau, French mime artist.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/7009382.stm

Mime's a pint. :)
First
24/09/2007, 8:07 AM
Marcel Marceau, French mime artist.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/7009382.stm

Mime's a pint. :)

Man of few words . RIP
OwlsFan
24/09/2007, 8:55 AM
Marcel Marceau, French mime artist.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/7009382.stm

Mime's a pint. :)


I'm speechless. Maybe there should be a minute's noise at the start of the next French game in his honour.