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    Off Topic cricket: 2025-26 ashes etc

    [note - started a new thread. for some reason the option of changing a thread title has been removed, so the title of the previous one got stuck] the first test between india and south africa in kolkata that started on the 14th (nov) and finished on the 16th went as follows: south africa 1st...
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    city managerial reigns in number of days

    data from soccerbase, sorted on day length of term days manager startdate enddate notes 3318 Ernest Blackburn 01-Dec-36 01-Jan-46 across ww2 3045 Cliff Britton 01-Jul-61 01-Nov-69 3011 Bill McCracken 01-Feb-23 01-May-31 2922 Ambrose Langley 01-Apr-05 01-Apr-13 2357 Terry Dolan 30-Jan-91...
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    September 2025 RIP

    joe bugner, boxer, 75. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Bugner
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    Off Topic 2025 cricket; england in india jan-feb for 5 t20 + 3 odi

    fixtures: t20 jan 22 25 28 31 feb 2 odi feb 6 9 12
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    Off Topic 2024 cricket season - with new zealand v england tests

    turns on laptop at five to three and finds england have skittled the windies for 121 already. 1st test 1st day. debutant gus atkinson has started with 7 for 45.
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    Off Topic Cricket 2024

    the county season started this week. most games had delayed starts, as per. glamorgan's sam northeast, who scored a 410no in 2022, was the first to score a century in the new season, and he didn't stop there. playing against middlesex at lord's, glamorgan declared their first innings on 620/3...
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    two swedish fans shot dead in belgium

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67129117 https://www.foxsports.com.au/football/euro-2024-qualifiers-belgiumsweden-abandoned-at-halftime-after-terrorist-attack-in-brussels-latest-news/news-story/95aa8540c5ec84805c7e638a8e1c6eba...
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    July 2023 RIP

    Professional basketball player Óscar Cabrera Adames died last week during a stress test at a health center in the Dominican Republic. In December 2021, Cabrera Adames collapsed on the court during a game; he blamed the incident on vaccine-induced myocarditis. This article was originally...
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    World Cup Finals 2022 Fixtures & Results

    i decided i'd like a thread with all the fixtures in sequence and in the first post of a thread. hence this, with apologies to chaz. please put comments in chaz's group posts. i'll add the scores plus summaries of each group as games progress and i'll put the team names for the knockout rounds...
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    Off Topic ongoing cricket thread inc pakistan v england tests

    eng v aus 3-game warm up. good win by england against aus earlier today. england good score and aus chased it well but lost wickets late on to go into the final over needing 16 with 3 wickets left. 4 off the first ball looked ominous but 2 wickets and only a bye in the next 4 sorted it out. 2...
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    chairman in crash

    no, not a reference to our form, but to the boss man breaking his arm in a crash in turkia a few days ago. i haven't seen any mention of it, nor any thread in which it might obviously be mentioned in, so i'm throwing this into the pot with an expectation of it being imminently merged. i'll do...
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    brown's done one

    wayne brown sacked as colchester manager.
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    ch'ip

    it takes too long to write championship so i hereby decree that it be shortened to ch'ip and later to merely chip.
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    carol thomas gets BEM in Queen's honours

    met carol very briefly about 40 years ago but as soon as i saw the picture with this article i knew it was her. first woman footballer to get 50 caps for england and was england captain 1976-1985...
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    April RIP

    c.w.mccall, u.s. country singer resonsible for uk no 2 'convoy' in 1976. aged 93. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._W._McCall
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    omar elabdellaoui

    interesting story about his horrid eye injury and subsequent recovery. https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/omar-elabdellaoui-galatasaray-hull-city-6647334
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    Off Topic Cricket, general

    new zealand's ajaz patel has become the third test cricketer to take all ten wickets in an innings, after jim laker and anil kumble. spinner patel ended with figures of 47.5 / 12 / 119 / 10 as india scored 325 in the first innings of the second test against new zealand in mumbai. new zealand...
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    not entirely off topic - anyone adept at film editing?

    i was thinking about the lion roaring in the metro-goldwyn-meyer film credits. or mgm as they were also known. now that our stadium is the mkm there's the palindromicness that mgm has. it occurred to me that we should have our own version of the mgm lion roaring, but with a tiger instead...
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    Off Topic World T20

    england are playing their opening t20 match against the west indies at the moment. adil rashid has returned decent bowling figures. https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/icc-men-s-t20-world-cup-2021-22-1267897/england-vs-west-indies-14th-match-group-1-1273725/full-scorecard
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    Off Topic ex-footballer jailed for killing his father

    i expect this piece of crap played against us a few times. https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/ex-doncaster-rovers-footballer-killed-21070146