The R.I.P. Thread

[Stan Hullis]

I think it may have been a joke.

 

[Tony Towner]

Always came across well and from an era/ style where you could just report and talk about the game without hot takes

https://twitter.com/x/status/1890325216548553209

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Always came across well and from an era/ style where you could just report and talk about the game without hot takes

https://twitter.com/x/status/1890325216548553209

An excellent writer.

 

[leedswolf]

Jockey Michael O’Sullivan dies aged 24 after fall in race at Thurles...​

 

[Keef]

Stanley Booker MBE Legion D’Honneur, 102,
RAF pilot who escaped a burning Halifax bomber in June 1944, rescued by French resistance fighters who were betrayed and captured, he was sent to the infamous Buchenwald prison where he was tortured for the rest of the war.
Post war continued serving in the RAF before transferring to Mi6, when asked about the war he said his survival was all due to squadron leader Phil Lamason RNZAF who kept moral up during his capture.

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

A proper hero

 

[Keef]

Julian Holloway 80, actor and father of Sophie Dahl.
Can’t place him? Here he is in some of his film roles

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I was today years old when I found out Sophie Dahl was not Roald Dahl's daughter.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I hate to break it to you man, but Ken Barlow isn't Gary Barlow's Dad either.

 

[Trips]

I was today years old when I found out Sophie Dahl was not Roald Dahl's daughter.

Granddaughter isn't she?

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Granddaughter isn't she?

There we go.

 

[Keef]

I was today years old when I found out Sophie Dahl was not Roald Dahl's daughter.

You’ll be telling me next you didn’t know Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay for the bond film you only live twice

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I hate to break it to you man, but Ken Barlow isn't Gary Barlow's Dad either.

This is silly isn't it? Given that she's his grand daughter?

 

[leedswolf]

Granddaughter isn't she?

Daughter of Tessa.

 

[Tony Towner]

A true tale of the unexpected

 

[Jinky]

This is silly isn't it? Given that she's his grand daughter?

I think he was just having a little giggle, mate.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I think he was just having a little giggle, mate.

Didn't make sense though did it

 

[Jinky]

Didn't make sense though did it

Little giggles don't have to make sense. Like yesterday, I didn't *actually* think Kenny had been mourning since Bruno Lage had left Wolves. It was just a shite joke.

 

[Keef]

Captain Richard Farnfield RN aged 87.
Another boys own story, he holds the record of being in charge of the longest underwater tracking of a Soviet submarine, while commanding HMS Sovereign he followed a soviet submarine 10,724miles across the eastern Atlantic, 49 days and all at a distance of 2-400 yards away from the Russians without them even knowing he was there.

 

[DogWeasel]

Rick Buckler (The Jam) 69.