Mystic Meg dies aged 80: Astrologer who shot to fame with her weekly National Lottery predictions passes away after a short illness one month after being treated at London hospital for flu
Sorry I couldn’t resist https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=s...#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:11e90df0,vid:s6kCSsfp_Tk
RIP Bill Tidy. Coincidentally, over the last week or two we've just been looking back at his Fosdyke Saga books from the 1970s - absolutely brilliant. Also, his "Cloggies" series in Private Eye were a joy.
I tried the Fosbury Flop at school, we used to do the sissor jump, everyone did, I was really tall at 13 years old so was good at the long jump and high jump, any way, Dick won Gold and our teacher said let’s try the Flop, so, ****ting ourselves with no massive landing bags we did, first kid got two foot off the ground, 2/3/4th kid same, then it’s me, dopey Rico. Running up to the bar like a sprinter, forgets the flop, sissors 5 foot odd, breaks school record, gets bollocked for ****ing it up, but Sir 5 foot 2 or 3, a record, see me after class, got the ****ing slipper, bastard Wilberforce.
Like you I did the scissor way at school though at the time the top athletes were doing the Western roll. I hope your game master didn't get you flopping into a sand pit!
The Roll was very difficult to do wasn’t it, trying to get your body flat over the bar from a run up, and twist your trailing leg over, tried it a few times soon gave up
RIP Dick Fosbury. Ironically, perhaps, a question about Dick Fosbury was on 'Only Connect' last night....ie it concerned moves that are named after the person who invited it..eg the 'Fosbury flop'. A 'Panenka' was another.
Wondering why the heck it's called 'the Cruyff turn'? Others were doing it well before then. Someone not that long ago posted a montage of Pele's tricks, which was eye opening. They were all there, including the 'Cruyff' turn.
Think it was coined in the 1974 world cup....From memory Holland were playing Austria. Cruyff had the ball on the corner of the box, did the turn and half the Austria defence bought it..
