A great man with a wonderful legacy. Provided us QPR fans with wonderful moments. Characters like this don't come around too often and I'm glad he was one of ours. Sad day for football. RIP El Tel.
RIP Terry Venables He bought Pompey off of Jim Gregory allegedly for £1 !! In his first season as owner/chairman he rebuilt the Fratton End stand. What a fantastic character, always smiling.
RIP Terry. He was the manager when I started following rangers home and away as a teenager. We were great, beat Chelsea 2-0 at Stamford bridge, got to Wembley and division 1. I wasn’t great on tactics (still aren’t) but I loved those Bobby Hazel near post flick ons from corners! How we could do with some of those on Tuesday night.
It seems TV succumbed to the scourge of footballers, dementia. For such a bright mind that must have been truly awful. RIP...
went to see The Popes at the Irish club in Hammersmith, sadly Shane didn't show. We'll always have his music though. Rest in Peace Shane
Pretty sad news, although inevitable after the photos that were going around last week. I lost count of the number of times I saw The Pogues, always a great night out even in later years...he may not have been able to speak but he could still sing. RIP Shane, you'll be sorely missed in our house
Shane was an inveterate drunk but a brilliant poet and songwriter. I have very fond memories of seeing the Pogues many times at the Mean Fiddler and other venues around London. We have tickets to see a Pogues tribute band at the Irish Centre in Camden on 16th December. Could be an emotional evening.
Very sad but inevitable Saw the Pogues a few times once with Joe Strummer always chaotic but great evenings Rum Sodomy & the Lash a great album Dirty Old Town & Sally MacLennane always played in my house RIP Shane
RIP Shane. Of the great trio of brilliant writers who lived on a variety of substances, Shane, Mark E Smith and Nick Cave only Nick survives and I think he’s calmed down a lot.
Lots of tributes to Alastair Darling, many of them stressing his ‘decency’ and the fact that he ‘knew right from wrong’. No criticism of him implied but these are really minimum expectations to be a human being and should be taken for granted in politicians, rather than praised as exemplary. Then a succession of other talking heads reviewed Henry Kissinger’s life and not a single one, even his biggest fans, described him as decent or implied that he had a functioning moral compass, and I shook myself out of my naive day dream.
