The Pie and Bovril Dead Pool 2023

[Fullerene]

"We, at ICT FC, feel deeply saddened at the loss of our fallen comrade".

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Week 30 update

One death this week, newsreader George Alagiah: George Alagiah: 'Brilliant, kind' BBC journalist and newsreader dies aged 67 - BBC News

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George Alagiah, one of the BBC's longest-serving and most respected journalists, has died at 67, nine years after being diagnosed with cancer.

A statement from his agent said he "died peacefully today, surrounded by his family and loved ones".

A fixture on British TV news for more than three decades, he presented the BBC News at Six for the past 20 years.

Before that, he was an award-winning foreign correspondent, reporting from countries ranging from Rwanda to Iraq.

He was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in 2014 and revealed in October 2022 that it had spread further.

There's a lot of detail about his life in that article as well as links to others. In the time I've run this game and the time I've been aware of who Alagiah was I only knew him as a newsreader, but some of the events he covered as a reporter are pretty significant and things which needed to be reported on. In a world where it feels like more bad stuff is happening than ever there's almost a disconnect because of how fast it comes and how accessible it is. To me the notion of journalists covering a story and being integral to the public's perception of the events are fading, and reading about Alagiah is a reminder to me of a time when news was news, and there was an implicit sense of trust in the people telling you the news.

He died at 67 so he's worth 58 Base Points. He was a popular pick, with a bunch of people getting Base Points, one Vice-Captain bonus for 87 and just two of you naming him Captain for 116 points:

58: @Aim Here, @Arbroathlegend36-0, @Bert Raccoon, @Billy Jean King, @Bully Wee Villa, @cdhafc1874, @Desp, @Donathan, @Enigma, @Fuctifano, @HI HAT, @Indale Winton, @lolls, @LoonsYouthTeam, @Mark Connolly, @Michael W, @Ned Nederlander, @pawpar, @Priti priti priti Patel, @psv_killie, @pub car king, @Savage Henry, @Scorge, @Shotgun, @The_Craig, @The Master, @thistledo and @weirdcal

87: @DG.Roma

116: @kilMARKnock and @Herc

As a result, the standings look like this:

1. JustOneCornetto 405
2. psv_killie 376
3. Arbroathlegend36-0 288
4. Desp 264
5. LoonsYouthTeam 245
6. The Naitch 240
7. gkneil 234
8. Arabdownunder 228
9. buddiepaul 226
10. Billy Jean King 225
11. Mark Connolly, weirdcal 224
13. qos_75 221
14. peasy23 220
15. amnarab 219
16. Ned Nederlander 209
17. Miguel Sanchez 199
18. Herc 190
19. Bully Wee Villa, cdhafc1874 192
21. lolls 180
22. Donathan 179
23. Shotgun 170
24. Bert Raccoon 169
25. D.V.T., microdave, throbber 166
28. Ludo*1 162
29. chomp my root 161
30. Savage Henry 159
31. Michael W, pub car king, The_Craig 157
34. Aim Here 155
35. DG.Roma 154
36. The DA 153
37. sophia 148
38. Karpaty Lviv, Scorge 145
40. Indale Winton 142
41. Sweaty Morph 140
42. alta-pete 139
43. get_the_subbies_on 138
44. Frosty, HK Hibee 134
46. Fuctifano, HI HAT, thistledo 125
49. kilMARKnock 116
50. ThomCat 115
51. doulikefish,  tamthebam 111
53. Melanius Mullarkay 110
54. Arch Stanton, mozam76 101
56. Lofarl 99
57. Oystercatcher, pawpar, weemac, willie adie 97
61. atfccfc, Ray Patterson 96
63. HTG 95
64. djchapsticks 94
65. Moomintroll 93
66. Enigma 90
67. dagane 87
68. ParsJake 86
69. sparky88 84
70. blackislekillie 74
71. Jimmy Baker 71
72. ICTJohnboy 69
73. paulathame 68
74. lichtgilphead 67
75. expatowner 60
76. German Jag, Priti priti priti Patel, superbigal, The Master 58
80. Dunning1874, sleazy 55
82. Empty It, The Hologram 48
84. DeeTillEhDeh 42
85. Oceanlineayr, Salvo Montalbano, Shipa, statts1976uk 39
89. 10menwent2mow, dee_62, mizfit, parxyz, scottsdad, senorsoupe, superwell87, Suspect Device 32
97. choirbairn, Derry Alli, stanton 31
100. BillyAnchor, Christophe, Lex, PWL 29
104. Everyone else 0

The spreadsheet has also been updated with these scores: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RxCIfczRUmrRrW79tUQ0vJ5KaHZpYENsTKmDqW4X3W4/edit?usp=sharing

[JustOneCornetto]

Benny Rooney, former Celtic and St Johnstone player who went on to manage Morton in the days of Andy Ritchie, Neil Orr etc has died aged 80

RIP Benny - https://www.gmfc.net/benny-rooney-1943-2023/

[get_the_subbies_on]

1 hour ago, JustOneCornetto said:

Benny Rooney, former Celtic and St Johnstone player who went on to manage Morton in the days of Andy Ritchie, Neil Orr etc has died aged 80

RIP Benny - https://www.gmfc.net/benny-rooney-1943-2023/

Thoughts and prayers with Miss Diane at this sad time. 

[GordonD]

4 hours ago, JustOneCornetto said:

Benny Rooney, former Celtic and St Johnstone player who went on to manage Morton in the days of Andy Ritchie, Neil Orr etc has died aged 80

RIP Benny - https://www.gmfc.net/benny-rooney-1943-2023/

Waned Rooney.

[jimbaxters]

Benny Dooney...into the hole.

[chomp my root]

2 hours ago, jimbaxters said:

Benny Dooney...into the hole.

Not to be confused with Phillup MacCavity.

[TxRover]

Just wondering, if something like this genius (https://news.sky.com/story/amp/remi-lucidi-french-daredevil-falls-to-his-death-off-skyscraper-in-hong-kong-12931049) happens say Dec 30th of some year, does Miguel hold off on awarding the winner until they’ve had a chance to use DNA to confirm the laddie splatted himself?

[Sergeant Wilson]

43 minutes ago, TxRover said:

Just wondering, if something like this genius (https://news.sky.com/story/amp/remi-lucidi-french-daredevil-falls-to-his-death-off-skyscraper-in-hong-kong-12931049) happens say Dec 30th of some year, does Miguel hold off on awarding the winner until they’ve had a chance to use DNA to confirm the laddie splatted himself?

 

[D.V.T.]

R I Pee Wee to Paul Reubens at 70. 

Edited July 31, 2023 by D.V.T.

[Bert Raccoon]

Pee Wee Deadman 

[Bully Wee Villa]

Have never seen any of those films, just assumed they'd be shit. 

[Oystercatcher]

Off to the porn cinema in the sky 

[Rugster]

Another pervert bites the dust

[Mark Connolly]

He also played the Penguin's dad in the best Batman film

[Richey Edwards]

RIP.

[Lofarl]

What a pisser.

 

[GNU_Linux]

Adrian Street pinned at 82

He was dubbed "the sadist in sequins" and "the man fans love to hate".

Welsh wrestling icon Adrian Street died on 24 July at Cwmbran's Grange University Hospital, aged 82, his family have confirmed.

He had recently undergone brain surgery.

Born in Blaenau Gwent, Street became an infamous sporting figure during the '70s and '80s for his outrageous appearance and no-holds-barred fighting style.

On Sunday night, his wife Linda described the real person behind that ring-side persona as "the kindest, most loving man you could ever meet."

Having grown up in Brynmawr in the 1940s, Street refused to follow his pit-worker father down the mines.

"Too dark down there, I was born for the spotlight," he confessed in an interview.

Still in his mid-teens, he instead ran away to London and eventually signed up with a wrestling promoter, who christened him Kid Tarzan Jonathan.

Later reverting back to using his own name, Street's flamboyant choice of costume - feather boa, dayglo face paint and peroxide pigtails - soon captured the attention of the audience.

But being met with cat-calls and jeers only resulted in him becoming even more over the top, skipping around the ring and planting lip-stick kisses on his opponents' foreheads before pummelling them into the canvas.

In 1971 he even beat Jimmy Savile black and blue, the now reviled paedophile DJ and TV presenter having been touted as something of a tough guy during a spell on the wrestling circuit.

"Back in those days the promoters were trying to get proper wrestlers to throw their matches with him - it was all part of some big stupid gimmick," said Street in 2013.

Having none of it, the Welshman ended up dropping Savile on his head and tearing out a large chunk of his hair.

Moving to Canada and the US in the '80s Street made an even bigger name for himself, playing up to the cameras and winning one championship belt after another.

Settling down in Florida, he and his wife and manager Linda (herself a former wrestler who Street first met in 1969) also started up a successful costume-making business, The Bizarre Bazaar, along with a nearby wrestling school called Skull Krushers Academy.

However, in recent years Street moved back to Wales - shortly after which a film was made of his life. Entitled You May Be Pretty, But Am Beautiful, got a cinema premiere in his home town of Brynmawr in 2019.

The biopic examined how Street had transcended the mere "man in tights" image to become a cultural icon, his garish outfits arguably even facilitating the arrival of glam rock in the UK.

He also recorded an album of songs with titles such as Sweet Transvestite With A Broken Nose, as well as penning numerous autobiographies such as The Merchant of Menace.

Meanwhile, a photo by Dennis Hutchinson taken of Street alongside his father in 1973 was called by Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller the "most important post-war picture ever taken."

It showed Street dressed in full wrestling garb standing defiantly next to his father and the other miners at Blaenau Gwent colliery. Many argued the image represented the beginning of the UK's shift from heavy industry into the entertainment age.

Street survived cancer in 2001, having been initially told by his doctor to prepare for the worst.

Nevertheless, his wife Linda, 77, explained that this latest battle would ultimately prove too much for him.

"He'd had a heart problem a while ago which was resolved," she said.

"But then he had a stroke earlier this month which resulted in a bleed on the brain.

"He was recovering from that at home when he developed colitis - a chronic inflammatory bowel disease - which later turned into sepsis. That's what killed him.

"It all came about so quick. I've still not come to terms with it yet."

She paid tribute to the grandfather-of-five, calling him, "the kindest, most lovely and loving man I've ever known. The total opposite to how he behaved on stage."

Linda added that she planned to have Street cremated and his ashes scattered on the mountains near their home in Cwmbran.

"He loved the outdoors and we'd go on long walks in the countryside all the time. He'd really be at peace up there," she said.

[The DA]

2 hours ago, Richey Edwards said:

RIP.

RIP-wee

[Bully Wee Villa]

Angus Cloud, "Euphoria" actor, but not the one I've heard of. Well, before about one minute ago.