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  1. #26

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    Quote Originally Posted by MacAdder View Post
    Before Sky started broadcasting, these two and their show were box office.
    I know he had had his problems with the booze etc (pre the hit show) but didn't Greavsie have some kind of stroke which did for the show or was it just because of Sky?

    They pioneered bringing the humour to the football show and would wager Saint and Greavsie had a big influence on Jeff Stelling's show.
    Something like this? Both of them talking about the boat race, Greavsie's comment at 1.30.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_7Uap8ZQrQ

  2. #27

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    Quote Originally Posted by MacAdder View Post
    That does surprise me. Now considering the "legend" that is Nobby (MU and England), you never see interviews of him or guesting expert when England are playing.
    He is suffering from Dementia.

  3. #28

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    Quote Originally Posted by MacAdder View Post
    Before Sky started broadcasting, these two and their show were box office.
    I know he had had his problems with the booze etc (pre the hit show) but didn't Greavsie have some kind of stroke which did for the show or was it just because of Sky?

    They pioneered bringing the humour to the football show and would wager Saint and Greavsie had a big influence on Jeff Stelling's show.
    I remember reading something years back that said when Sky came along, they were looking for a more professional, polished image for their 'brand' - which probably explains Jamie Carragher.

    I remember Saint and Greavsie - wasn't old enough to know who they actually were but enjoyed the light hearted banter at a time where football was a serious business. As you say, I'm sure they've had a big influence on a lot of today's programming style.

    Just googled and Greave's isn't in the best of health (stroke a few years back, confined to a wheelchair) but saint is still going strong and attending matches.

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    Re: People you thought were dead....

    Quote Originally Posted by MacAdder View Post
    Before Sky started broadcasting, these two and their show were box office.
    I know he had had his problems with the booze etc (pre the hit show) but didn't Greavsie have some kind of stroke which did for the show or was it just because of Sky?

    They pioneered bringing the humour to the football show and would wager Saint and Greavsie had a big influence on Jeff Stelling's show.
    they almost always showed Tranmere from the previous Friday night

  5. #30

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    Quote Originally Posted by TISS View Post
    they almost always showed Tranmere from the previous Friday night


    Didn't they used to play their home games on a Friday night because they got bigger attendances? (From avoiding a clash with Everton and Liverpool)

    Or is that something else I've made up in my head and has become fact?

  6. #31

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    Quote Originally Posted by jeepster View Post
    Nicholas Parsons
    For a guy in his 90s, he's still very sharp upstairs. Always impresses me.

  7. #32

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    Actor Bernard Cribbins (The Railway Children, etc). Far from being long since brown bread, at 89 he's in regular work. Bill Maynard (Heartbeat's Claude Greengrass) is the same age and remains active.

  8. #33

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    Jake LaMotta died yesterday, I thought he passed away years ago.

  9. #34

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    Quote Originally Posted by lardy View Post
    For a guy in his 90s, he's still very sharp upstairs. Always impresses me.
    Sharp as hell,hope i am half as good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Organ Morgan. View Post
    Actor Bernard Cribbins (The Railway Children, etc). Far from being long since brown bread, at 89 he's in regular work. Bill Maynard (Heartbeat's Claude Greengrass) is the same age and remains active.
    Well I'll be buggered, I would have thought he'd long since expired. I used to love Selwyn Froggit and The Gaffer when I was a kid.

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    Henry Kissinger, Doris Day and Kirk Douglas appear to still be going, if not strong.

    I thought all of them had died in the last year or so but it turns out that was just more fake non-news I invented.

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    Me.

  13. #38

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    Windsor Davies.

    Seemed to be in his 70s when I was a kid in the 80s, but he's alive and well at 87.

  14. #39

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arfur Europe View Post
    Windsor Davies.

    Seemed to be in his 70s when I was a kid in the 80s, but he's alive and well at 87.
    I thought Melvyn Hayes was dead til he turned up on Channel 5 a couple of weeks ago driving a camper van.

    Not sure about Gunner Graham though.

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    Des O'Connor (not the City fan, the other one).

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    Michael Myers at the end of Halloween, put the shits up me when the body had gone.

    Spoilers...

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    Tony Blair

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    Quote Originally Posted by AlwaysAway2 View Post
    Tony Blair
    You want the people you wish were dead thread.

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    Hugh Hefner.

  20. #45

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve R View Post
    Hugh Hefner.
    Ooooo, you little playboy, you !

  21. #46

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    Hugh Hefner.
    You beat me too it

  22. #47

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    Liz Dawn died a few days ago - I thought she had died ages ago.

  23. #48

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    Quote Originally Posted by bobh View Post
    Liz Dawn died a few days ago - I thought she had died ages ago.
    She did on Corrie and come back as a bloody ghost.

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    That woman in one of those BBC police dramas who's lying on the floor dead as a dodo after having been attacked and just before the closing credits, the camera pans in and her eyes suddenly open...

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