I’m choked, what a wonderful, selfless way to go out. That minute’s applause on 59 minutes last week hardly seems appropriate. Maybe the Itchen Stand should be called The Simon Oakley Stand.
Benjamin Zephaniah has passed away aged 65. The British writer, dub poet and musician had been suffering from a brain tumour. A true pioneer and inspiration to many. RIP.
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Ryan O’Neal. 
One of my all time favourite “man with no name” films…
Up yours, Delors will now be necrophilia.
John Pilger has passed aged 84. He was a superb investigative journalist, one of a dying breed. His books about the Vietnam war are a must read for anybody interested in the subject. One of the first journalists into Vietnam during the war, and the last one out. He remained a thorn in the side of lying warmongers and Tories to the last. RIP.
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Off topic for this thread I know, but I can also highly recommend A Bright Shining Lie by another Vietnam journalist, Neil Sheehan.
Winner of the Pulitzer prize, it focuses on the “strategy” and utter madness of the main decision makers and how it impacted the people they sent to fight.
One of my all time favourite books
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Brace yourselves lads, the big one is about to hit us and it’ll be painful.
Non-stop airplay of Don’t Give Up On Us Baby. 
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RIP the last WWII founder of the SAS
https://twitter.com/ExpeditionsSoe/status/1743225076634308912?t=Yltz5a27M3vfTIL-z9WqKQ&s=19
Lost in the Silver Lady noise
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Hutch is dead
He gave up on us baby
… and so it begins.
True story:
My Mum knitted me a Starsky jumper.
It was epic.
Real quality actually dug it out to wear to a party after the film came out…
He was married five times! Some people never learn.
I think we all had one knitted by our good old mums back in the day.
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On the bright side, so is that nutter from Magnum Force.
His best role, imho.
Great man… operated on my brother when he was a baby back in 1969. Transplant pioneer and helped drive the discipline forward.
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Der Kaiser has heard the full time whistle
The template for Mark Wright
RIP