Right, as defending champion, I feel I ought to keep my formidable lineup in relative tact. I've assembled a cracking squad, just a few additions in this transfer window, but sadly we had to say 'farewell' to some of them just the same. Apologies for this late submission:

1. Kirk Douglas
2. Fidel Castro
3. Michael Foot
4. Betty Ford
5. Ken Dodd
6. Gough Whitlam
7. Ariel Sharon
8. Osama Bin Laden
9. Nelson Mandela
10. Dame Vera Lynn
11. Bill Brown (the last living person to have played in the same test team as Don Bradman)
12. Elizabeth Taylor
13. Malcolm Allison

1. Charlton Heston
2. Fidel Castro
3. Michael Foot
4. Harold Pinter
5. Denis Healey
6. Olivia De Havilland
7. Ariel Sharon
8. Robert Mugabe
9. Gore Vidal
10. Dame Vera Lynn
11. Peter O'Toole
12. Eric Hobsbawm *
13. Corin Redgrave

* Dave's annual nomination designed to keep the nominee in rude health for at least 12 months

1. Fidel Castro
2. Ariel Sharon
3. Michael Foot
4. Margaret Thatcher
5. Kirk Douglas
6. Ronnie Biggs
7. Charlton Heston
8. Zsa Zsa Gabor
9. Britney Spears
10. Russel Watson
11. Vera Lynn
12. Harold Pinter
13. Bobby Robson

Interesting lists, I must say.

I did give serious thought to Britney Spears and Bobby Robson.

Likewise - but Spears will probably be placed in a padded cell before too long and kept alive, and I couldn't quite bring myself to nominate Sir Bobby as my 'guaranteed to be kept alive for another year as a result of nomnination' candidate.

Great to be back on the hottest site around for Italian football chat.  Haven't followed it recently actually, but hoping to see Gazza in the televised match on Sunday.

Here are my nominations:

1). Ronnie Biggs
2)  Tony Blair
3)   Lionel Blair
4)   Michael Foot
5)   Margaret Thatcher
6)  Gore Vidal
7)  Kirk Douglas
  Vera Lynn
9)  Britney Spears  
10)  Pete Docherty
11)  Bobby Robson
12)  Fidel Castro
13)  Peter Ridsdale

Mezz will be so pleased!!

Welcome to our little site but behave yourself, as Dave has site admin powers!

Mezz is a fine member of the forum and deserves all the respect he gets.  Oh, the powers of the Site Admin!!

Great news about Dave.  It's about time that boy was given the responsibility his talent demands.

Sir George wrote:

Here are my nominations: 1). Ronnie Biggs 2)  Tony Blair 3)   Lionel Blair 4)   Michael Foot 5)   Margaret Thatcher 6)  Gore Vidal 7)  Kirk Douglas   Vera Lynn 9)  Britney Spears   10)  Pete Docherty 11)  Bobby Robson 12)  Fidel Castro 13)  Peter Ridsdale

They're not nominations, they're part of a 'wish list'!
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject".

Ah, Sir 'Thrush' (otherwise known as the irritating c**t) has finally managed to find us.

Only took about four months to work out the impenetrably cryptic messages on how to get here too.

Clever boy.
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Good to see you, George.

George, I see you saw the thread in the other forum before they deleted it. Mezz (though he probably won't admit it) had left a reply to your last post asking where we'd all gone to.

Sir John Harvey Jones has died after a long illness.  Long perhaps, but not very well publicised to those compiling their Totodeath lists.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7182117.stm

Myles wrote:

Mezz (though he probably won't admit it) had left a reply to your last post asking where we'd all gone to.

If you look at the last post in the La Liga thread on this very forum, you'll see that I confessed all about my lapse of judgement.

I'm just a sucker for a fool, see?


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Oh yeah....the thorn bush lashing!

Sir Edmund Hillary

First man to reach the top of Everest (or at least known to have got there), aged 88.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7182376.stm

Fittingly late,

1. Margaret Thatcher
2. Fidel Castro
3. Kirk Douglas
4. Nelson Mandela
5. Jimmy Carter
6. Charlton Heston
7. George H.W. Bush
8. Michael Foot
9. Mickey Rooney
10. Liza Minelli
11. Claude Levi-Strauss
12. Gil Merrick
13. Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Oh, and welcome back George, I see you've been even less committed to this haven of Italian football chit-chat than I.

Brad Renfro, troubled child star of films such as The Client, Ghost World and Bully

http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2008-01-16/
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Kuwabara, kuwabara

Bobby Fischer, former world chess champion and former citizen of US has died, aged 64.  Another one who is now reported as having been ill for some time - why is this reported after they die?  Makes it so hard to assemble a credible Totodeath squad!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7195840.stm[/url]

I know none of you probably care, but some people would call this sick