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Oh aye, my bad - and of course the prestige of the FA Cup still to play for (arf!)

Aye, and - apparently - convinced several people of the value of going that route

Palace currently 4-0 up vs Manchester United, which will leave United looking at a maximum 60 points. Taxi for ten Hag, then?

Totally random but the mention of gin above reminded me of our sometime colleague hereabouts, Bruno Brimley, last visted 2016 according to a search I just did. Anyone know owt of his current situation?

Meanwhile in Scotland, John Swinney will be enthroned rather than elected against an opponent - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0lgnm3037o

Sid's Emporium again - 1 May, apparently

BBC chart at the moment has the Tories in THIRD place on seats won, four behind the Lib Dems (who've gained 25 seats whilst the Tories have lost 150) - so any claims about the mayoral victory are just third polishing (heh heh, see what I did there!)

Leaf Label reporting Joseph Dierker dead - obit here: https://funerals.coop/obituaries/joseph-dierker.html

More a reminder than a discovery, but as the Let it Be movie (1970) gets a reboot following the television series that mined all the footage it's dragging director Michael Lindsay-Hogg (seen here on the right in 1944) back into the newsfeeds. So much so, in fact, maybe the fact he turns 84 on Sunday might get mentioned too.

Aye, well, either way - the mayoral stuff is bucking the overall trend so when the dust settles on yesterday's shit storm for the Tories they'll come out swinging as much as they can claiming the mayoral stuff as a success, that'll spike any remaining rebels in parliament so there won't be a move to oust Sunak, he'll seek to hang on in the hope of turning things round, which won't succeed very well, and as autumn heads into winter we'll go to the polls in the pouring rain and deliver the worst election result for the Conservatives in living memory. Or summat. That's my best guess anyway - coffee and a warm scone beckons

Yeah, no discussion of cause so you're suspecting suicide until told different. As I recall it, years ago we discussed the tonnage of cricket suicides and I just checked again about a book on that subject, published in 2001. Point being I don't recall a book about suicides in any other major sport.

What if, the most popular beliefs (like that discussed in the post above) are largely bollocks but the phenomena are still very real. Here's a few possibilities discussed with enough book covers/names mentioned for anyone keen on following up: