Deid

[57vintage]

Graham Thorpe, stylish but gritty batsman (‘batter’ is what coats haddock, reed puddens and mock chops in the chipper - fanny batter is a different flavour, but is haddock-like in aroma) for Surrey and England.

A mere youth at 55.

Roy Harper: https://youtu.be/vy-WU7RPxEw?si=YGk_mjtGft-dl1zd

[WhenTattieFlooredChas]

Graham Thorpe, stylish but gritty batsman (‘batter’ is what coats haddock, reed puddens and mock chops in the chipper - fanny batter is a different flavour, but is haddock-like in aroma) for Surrey and England.

A mere youth at 55.

Roy Harper: https://youtu.be/vy-WU7RPxEw?si=YGk_mjtGft-dl1zd

Jeez that's sad. Just a year older than me. Scary. Saw a few masterful innings from him over the years.

On a side note - are you familiar with Roy's son Nick? There is one hell of a guitarist, especially when seeing him live - something I have had the pleasure and fortune to do on a number of occasions. I don't use the term lightly but he is a true genius!

[57vintage]

The Harper moniker is almost certain, it seems, to associate itself with genius. Joe (obviously), Harper Lee, and even the Harper Motor Company in toon sold a nae bad Consul or Zephyr in its day.

[Shetland Don]

Graham Thorpe, stylish but gritty batsman (‘batter’ is what coats haddock, reed puddens and mock chops in the chipper - fanny batter is a different flavour, but is haddock-like in aroma) for Surrey and England.

A mere youth at 55.

Roy Harper: https://youtu.be/vy-WU7RPxEw?si=YGk_mjtGft-dl1zd

Never, ever purchase your Haddocks from the supermarket as they are always of a certain vintage, Vintage! 😅

[57vintage]

Not my department. I have people to perform these tasks for me.

[swaddon2]

Former England manager Sven Goran Eriksson has died.

[phuxachemin]

Sol Bamba

[TheDeeDon]

Sol Bamba

I just read that. Only 39.

Had cancer a few years back, but this came on really quickly.

No age at all.

[swaddon2]

Ron Yeats. Ex-Liverpool player, deid at 86.

[TheDeeDon]

Ron Yeats. Ex-Liverpool player, deid at 86.

An Aberdeen loon who played for the Joot whilst working as a slaughter man in Aberdeen.

Supposedly built like a brick sh*those and Shankley credits the signing of Yeats and Ian St John as the turning point in Liverpools fortunes as a football club.