Bill Walsh, former NFL coaching great. San Francisco 49ers legend.
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Bill Walsh, former NFL coaching great. San Francisco 49ers legend.
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.
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They do say these things come in threes...Quote:
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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:(
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.
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/m...er/6941392.stm
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
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 ;)Quote:
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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.
I went to a Pavarotti gig once. Right miserable sod he was. He doesnt like it when you join in.Quote:
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Obviously never heard of an Irish singalong then ;)Quote:
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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
....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.
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)
Ian Porterfield, scorer of that famous winning FA Cup goal for Sunderland.
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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".Quote:
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Marcel Marceau, French mime artist.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/7009382.stm
Mime's a pint. :)
Man of few words . RIPQuote:
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I'm speechless. Maybe there should be a minute's noise at the start of the next French game in his honour.