The RIP Thread

[Robin127]

Interesting bloke, he played for a few years in Iran which is very unusual.

 

[Blue Maniac]

Yep. He was playing in the Cheshire League earlier this season alongside Nathan Ellington.

 

[Jeff]

England World Cup winner Ray Wilson has died.

 

[Ike O'Noclassed]

England World Cup winner Ray Wilson has died.

Arguably one of five world-class players in the 1966 England World Cup Squad (alongside Banks, Moore, Cohen and Bobby Charlton). Struggle to pick even one from the 23 announced for Russia, today, Lord Harry being the nearest approximation, I suppose.

 

[Robin127]

I'd put Jimmy Greaves in the world class category from that squad as well.

 

[David Gwilliam]

RIP Robert Kennedy who was assassinated fifty years ago today. These days he is largely forgotten but deserves to be remembered.

1968 was a year of crisis in the USA. The country was losing the Vietnam War and there were race riots in a number of cities.
At this time Robert Kennedy epitomised hope. He believed passionately in civil rights, taking America out of Vietnam and unusually for the 1960s gun control - attacking those who pretended guns were "harmless toys".

Robert Kennedy was murdered after winning the California Primary. Robert Kennedy was the epitome of idealism. Instead America got President Richard Nixon who was the epitome of cynicism

The clip below shows an unprepared speech when he has just heard of the assassination of Martin Luther King.

 

[pork pie fox]

Peter Stringfellow

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44394076

 

[SJN-Fox]

Peter Stringfellow

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44394076

Sorry, he can't come in dressed like that.

 

[SJN-Fox]

Leslie Grantham.

No coming back from the dead this time

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-44494734

 

[Motown Fox]

 

[homer]

No way !!

 

[tedfoxxx]

Just imagine the japes as they try to carry his coffin.

 

[pork pie fox]

End of an era.

 

[pork pie fox]

Joel Robuchon:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45082668

He made very nice food.

 

[Blaarev]

Aretha Franklin RIP

 

[Jeff]

 

[pork pie fox]

What a voice.

 

[Motown Fox]

This is a lesser known one which was in the film Sparkle written by the great Curtis Mayfield
RIP Aretha

 

[City Fan]

Surprising really seeing as I said a little prayer for her.

 

[fitz]

RIP Aretha.

Spare a thought for me n all though...informing people at the same time that it was announced she'd died that Hairy Vag Pie had died.