The RIP Thread

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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.
 
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 <peacedove>
 
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.

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We have tickets to see a Pogues tribute band at the Irish Centre in Camden on 16th December. Could be an emotional evening.
 
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.