I had just come back from living in Italy when the channel 4 coverage started, with Brackley and the excellent James Richardson fronting it up. One of the best football programmes ever and helped me deal with ‘reverse homesickness’. Man Italian football was good in those days. RIP.
It's funny how Football Italia is widely and fondly remembered. I was at a funeral a few years ago and my young niece said to me one of the things she always remembers about her childhood in the 90s was Sunday afternoons at our house and the roast dinners followed by us watching 'Golaccio'. It was a really ground breaking programme and so different from any other run-of-the-mill cliched football programme. Brackley was a perfect choice along with several excellent co-commentators. Above all it gave us a few years of watching what I consider to be the most complete club side I've ever seen the great Milan side of the 90s...
Anthea Bell, 'magnificent' translator of Asterix and Kafka, dies aged 82 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...ieJ3OXwMg-Hao6AklmwNF7pnmq1SFy35TGEMzmq9HVy_I
RIP my dear friend Frank Alonso ex. of Lisson Grove and later Ruislip. Just turned 52 last week, only found out he had cancer 3rd October and passed away yesterday. Had spent the last 30 years in Kansas City - living an incredibly healthy lifestyle, no age, we must, although we rarely do, remember to not put too much a price on insignificant things.
Stan Lee: Marvel Comics co-creator dies aged 95 please log in to view this image Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES Image captionStan Lee was born Stan Lieberman in 1922 American writer and Marvel Comics co-creator Stan Lee has died at the age of 95. Lee and Jack Kirby founded the company in 1961, beginning with The Fantastic Four and going on to create titles such as Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk. Lee's wife, Joan, died in 2017 - also aged 95 - but he is survived by his daughter, JC Lee. Speaking to website TMZ, JC said her father was "the greatest, most decent man".
Obituary: Richard Baker 17 November 2018 please log in to view this image The voice of Richard Baker introduced the first news bulletin broadcast on BBC television. But it was a year before he was actually seen on screen, going on to become one of the most familiar faces on TV. A keen music lover, he branched out to present the Last Night of the Proms and was a regular on the panel game, Face the Music. He also presented music programmes for BBC radio as well as voicing the popular children's series, Mary, Mungo & Midge. Richard Baker was born in Willesden, north London, on 15 June 1925, the son of a plasterer. His father was a keen amateur singer who encouraged his son to take up the piano. please log in to view this image Image caption Initially he was not permitted to appear on camera Academically gifted, Baker won a place at grammar school before going to Peterhouse College, Cambridge, to read history and modern languages. Two terms into his university education, he joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He found himself on a minesweeper attached to the supply convoys to Russia, one of the most dangerous and gruelling theatres of the conflict. Dream job He whiled away the time by reading Tolstoy's War and Peace, as well as collating information about his then admiral, Sir Gilbert Stephenson, which formed the basis for a biography Baker later published on this pioneer of anti-submarine warfare. The war over, he returned to his studies at Cambridge, where he became an enthusiastic member of the Marlowe drama society. On graduation he began acting in various repertory companies and secured a short attachment as an English teacher in a London grammar school. please log in to view this image Image caption Baker with Kenneth Kendall and Robert Dougall In 1950, he wrote to the BBC asking if they were recruiting actors, resulting in an offer of a job as a presenter on what was then called the Third Programme, much later to become Radio 3. It was a dream job for the young man with a deep interest in classical music. When the news department began planning bulletins, Baker and Kenneth Kendall were recruited and it was Baker who introduced the first BBC news bulletin on 5 July 1954. The bulletin itself was read by the doyen of radio announcers, John Snagge. Sticky tape At first the BBC refused to allow newsreaders to appear in vision. "It was feared we might sully the stream of truth with inappropriate facial expressions," Baker later recalled. "Instead the viewers saw pictures making the news." When ITN prepared to go on air with named newscasters in 1955, the BBC relented - to the extent that it allowed Baker and Kendall to appear on the late-night TV news summary. "It was hoped not too many people would be watching," Baker said wryly. Two years later Baker, along with Kenneth Kendall and Robert Dougall, became the regular faces of BBC TV news bulletins. please log in to view this image Image copyright Rex Features Image caption He married Margaret, a childhood friend, in 1961 Baker's calm and unflappable style proved invaluable in the days when technical problems often bedevilled the bulletins. The scripts on the Autocue, from which the presenter read, were held together by sticky tape which often peeled away. Film footage shot on location, which had to be couriered back to the studio, sometimes failed to arrive on time or, if it did, the film broke or the machine failed, leaving an embarrassing gap. Inevitably, despite the wishes of BBC management, the newsreaders became personalities in their own right, purely because they were appearing in the nation's living rooms every night. Baker recalled being sent jumpers knitted by adoring fans and he began to be recognised while out shopping. Nothing Like a Dame However, newsreaders in the 1960s were not paid the star salaries of the current generation. Baker's son Andrew recalled family holidays in a caravan on a farm, the cost of foreign travel being prohibitive. In 1969 he was narrator of the BBC children's series, Mary, Mungo & Midge, which ran for 13 episodes, and he later narrated another children's series, Teddy Edward. please log in to view this image Image caption He was part of an ensemble of presenters on the 1977 Morecambe & Wise Christmas Show Baker's high profile led to three guest appearances on Monty Python's Flying Circus and, in 1977, he joined other BBC presenters to take part in a performance of the song, There is Nothing Like a Dame on the Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show. In 1982, he decided to leave the TV news desk but his voice continued to be heard on BBC radio where he presented, among other programmes; Start the Week, These You Have Loved and Your Hundred Best Tunes. For many years he fronted the Last Night of the Proms from the Royal Albert Hall, resplendent on a balcony festooned with streamers. In 2015, along with other veterans of the Arctic convoys, he received the Ushakov medal, to recognise the bravery of British sailors who assisted the Russian navy. In his final years, Richard Baker moved to a retirement home. He was a little unsettled at first but soon found a way of integrating. He would read all the newspapers and cut out the interesting headlines. Then, at Six O'clock, he would read them aloud to his fellow residents over supper. For the great news man it was a smaller audience than he was used to; but one which was no less appreciative of his talent.
Nodge from dot.org and WARTB has passed away. Long-term season ticket holder and Rangers Fan. I don't remember him on our site but may have used another name. RIP https://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/2018/november/jonathan-waite/ https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/jonathan-waite-dead-tottenham-pay-13611077
Kiwi - it a world when things can get lost, a little bit of kindness can go a long way. BIG THANKS FOR SHARING
And we've just had a postal strike here...I would rather have the compassion shown by Sean Millligan to the animosity of that picket line
Ken Berry, star of Mama's Family and F-Troop, passes away aged 85 By DAILYMAIL.COM REPORTER PUBLISHED: 03:45 AEDT, 3 December 2018 | UPDATED: 05:03 AEDT, 3 December 2018 e-mail 1.7kshares 86 View comments Ken Berry, who is best known for his roles in the classic TV shows Mama's Family and F-Troop, died on Saturday in Burbank, California. Berry's ex-wife Jackie Joseph-Lawrence announced the sad news on Facebook, writing: 'With very deep sorrow, I must inform friends of Ken Berry that he died a short time ago.' He was 85. She paid tribute to her former husband, describing him as a 'much loved friend.' please log in to view this image +3 Passed away: Ken Berry, who is best known for his roles in the classic TV shows Mama's Family and F-Troop, died on Saturday in Burbank, California, aged 85 (pictured 1983) please log in to view this image Sorrow: Berry's ex-wife Jackie Joseph-Lawrence announced the sad news on Facebook Berry was considered to be one of the best physical comedians of a generation. ADVERTISING RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 2 Next please log in to view this image Smokey Robinson, 78, misses his childhood friend, the late... please log in to view this image Emily Blunt looks radiant in a floral frock at star-studded... please log in to view this image Eva Longoria dazzles in a satin pantsuit at the Teen Vogue... SHARE THIS ARTICLE Share He played Vinton Harper opposite Vicki Lawrence in Mama's Family, which ran for two seasons. But it was his role as Captain Parmenter in ABC's F Troop that he became most widely known and loved. The show only aired two seasons from 1965-1967. Video playing bottom right... Click here to expand to full page Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% 0:50 Pause Unmute Current Time0:50 / Duration Time1:16 Fullscreen ExpandClose please log in to view this image +3 Family favourite: He played Vinton Harper opposite Vicki Lawrence in Mama's Family, which ran for two seasons His co-star Larry Storch reacted to the tragic news, saying, 'We hope you know how much you were loved. Goodnight Captain.' He also starred as Sam Jones in The Andy Griffith Show as well as spin-off Mayberry R.F.D. The star also had memorable guest-starring roles on several TV series like Small Wonder, Fantasy Island, CHiPs, Little House on the Prairie and The Golden Girls. He was also well-known from television commercials for Kinney Shoes from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, where he was seen singing and dancing to the 'Great American Shoe Store' jingle. please log in to view this image +3 Still close: His ex-wife paid tribute to her former husband, describing him as a 'much loved friend'
