Rory had a good stint at the trough in fairness to him.
General John De Chastelain.
Gone to the great IRA arms dump in the sky.
I always imagined he was from Lisburn and did his shopping at Sprucefield.
General De Chastelain has apparently risen from the dead on Good Friday like Ger Loughnane (not on Good Friday).
Poet Gabriel Rosenstock, known to students of primary school Gaeilge school text books in the late 80s/early 90s
Sean Barrett (Former Ceann Comhairle and Fine Gael TD for Doon Lehra - not the legendary voice over man who narrated Peleâs 1991 Eurosport documentary series âThe Game Of Billionsâ)
Mircea Lucescu, legendary Romanian football manager who managed extensively in Romanian, Turkish, Italian and Ukrainian football, has died at the age of 80.
He was the manager of Romania as recently as the 1-0 play off defeat by Turkey 12 days ago.
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He was the face in the dugout for some
Many teams from behind the old iron curtain - dinamo and rapid Bucharest,shaktar Donetsk , dinamo Kiev, zenit st Petersburg, and also galatasary besiktas and inter Milan
I love/d a good Iron Curtain / South Eastern European manager. Valeri Lobanovksi, Fatih Terim, Senol Gunes, Vujadin Boskov, Radomir Antic, Zdenek Zeman, Dr. Jo.
Just saw there that Dimitar Penev who managed Bulgaria in 1994 died on January 4th this year also at the age of 80.
Yugoslavia followed by Romania were the sexiest Eastern European teams. The flair, the technique, oh the technique.
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Yugoslavia produced some amount of tidy footballers
Nearly as many as Dublin and New Zealand.
Best known for stealing Kelly off Zack in Saved by the bell.
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Henry Shefflin?
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The fella on the left looks nothing like him.
looks like Charlie carter ih that photo, I stuck it on the Lookalikes thread
Mr Blackburn Rovers. 6 times a caretaker manager.
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Thatâs worth an RIP. He came across as a complete gent
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@ChairmanDan will be relieved it wasnât the Tottenham Hotspur Tony Parkes who has died.
I was admitted to the inner sanctum of Ewood Park on two successive days in August 1993 and a sounder lot you couldnât have met. The staff were like a mixture of Last Of The Summer Wine and the sound characters from Coronation Street. The players were dead sound too.
Fun fact: Though I am not and never have been a Blackburn Rovers supporter, I attended the final two First Division games of Blackburn Roversâ title winning season of 1994/95.
I was having a gander at the YouTubes the other night at Blackburn Roversâ promotion season of 1991/92 and I was astonished to see that King Kennyâs men lost six league games in a row in March and April and plummeted from top of the league to outside the play-off places before a late recovery just about saw them in. Then they only went and won the play-offs. David Speedie was instrumental.
Tony Parkes had the sort of face you couldnât possibly dislike. Stalwart football man.
They won the Premier League, not the First Division.
Alex Zanardi RIP.
Gave one of the best interviews I ever heard on Off The Ball in 2009.
Drove for Jordan in that crazy season when Bertrand Gachot was jailed. Had both legs amputated later in life following an accident.