Off Topic The R.I.P Thread

RIP JPR

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/67912287

 

RIP Franz Beckenbauer

I know he was German, but he couldn't help that.
One of a small group of truly legendary players, the like of whom we'll never see again.

 

AKA……..Der Kaiser (see page 29)

 

Apologies - I missed the end of page 29

 

Ian Lavender - Don't tell 'em Pike, has passed on at the age of 77. One of the classic comedies of all time - a rather gentle pace but I'd guess we all look back fondly on this one.
RIP Ian.

 

The last one gone from Dad's Army

 

I expect we were all “brung up “ on Dads Army ….. good times!

 

RIP Steve Wright

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68287707

I was never a great radio listener but back in the day I used to listen to ‘Steve Wright In The Afternoon’ while working at a particular workplace. Think it was in about 1982/1983 from memory. He played a good variety of music and had a couple of good features and lines. Check up from the neck up was a memorable catchphrase if I remember rightly.

 

Very sad - I was a big fan of 'Steeve Wright in the afternooon', though as the music changed in the eighties, I drifted away from the radio.
RIP Steve (and adios to the Gay Caballeros, who were one of his jingles in the early eighties)

 

I know it’s mentioned in the news thread also, but he deserves to be here….

RIP Alexei Navalny

A brave, brave man. Very few have that sort of courage and conviction.

 

Hear hear

 

RIP Ewen MacIntosh.

You'll be missed, big man.

 

RIP Stan Bowles

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68394453

You just don’t get players called Stan anymore.

 

My first Charlton game was a League Cup replay, which we lost 0-3 to QPR, and Stan the Man scored, which everyone expected him to.

 

RIP Steve Harley

 

RIP - Cockney Rebel- memories from my teens

 

RIP Joe Kinnear

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68757582

Not everyone's cup of tea perhaps, but he kept Wimbledon in the Premiership for years when they were ground-sharing with you-know-who.

 

Old skool character, had a successful career.
Sleep well Joe.

 

RIP Derek Underwood

A Bromley boy who only ever represented Kent at county level.

From an era when cricket was still cricket.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/68818400