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The existence of a “Manchester Dart Board”. 
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Originally posted by lassassinblanc lassassinblanc wrote:

Originally posted by Shedite Shedite wrote:

Originally posted by Roberto Baggio Roberto Baggio wrote:

Harry Maguire has never won a trophy 

Always assumed he was part of the Leicester league winning squad 
Likely to retire with this as his only honour at this rate 


That's Alex Bruce... I think 
Feck, think thread. Maguire was in that final anyway, might set a record for the most expensive player never to win a major trophy



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Originally posted by Shedite Shedite wrote:

Originally posted by lassassinblanc lassassinblanc wrote:

Originally posted by Shedite Shedite wrote:

Originally posted by Roberto Baggio Roberto Baggio wrote:

Harry Maguire has never won a trophy 

Always assumed he was part of the Leicester league winning squad 
Likely to retire with this as his only honour at this rate 


That's Alex Bruce... I think 
Feck, think thread. Maguire was in that final anyway, might set a record for the most expensive player never to win a major trophy




Someone with a shkull like that was always destined to play for United.
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On a hotel break and on the approach to one of the sights I see a roadside memorial dedicated to a girl who died in a road crash back in 2004. I go down the rabbit hole on the internet looking for further information on it and I see a news headline about another girl the same age who died the same year in the same town in the same circumstances. Article lists this other girl's grieving boyfriend's name and I think to myself "that's an unusual first name". Couple hours later we're having lunch in town and I see a van drive past the restaurant with "******** ******** Contractors" written on it. 

Same name as the chap from the article and has to be him because the first name is so unusual.

How about that for a law of attraction?!
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Originally posted by Hotlips_Hoolahan Hotlips_Hoolahan wrote:

On a hotel break and on the approach to one of the sights I see a roadside memorial dedicated to a girl who died in a road crash back in 2004. I go down the rabbit hole on the internet looking for further information on it and I see a news headline about another girl the same age who died the same year in the same town in the same circumstances. Article lists this other girl's grieving boyfriend's name and I think to myself "that's an unusual first name". Couple hours later we're having lunch in town and I see a van drive past the restaurant with "******** ******** Contractors" written on it. 

Same name as the chap from the article and has to be him because the first name is so unusual.

How about that for a law of attraction?!
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The mysterious death of one of Austria's greatest footballers and his wife.


Suicide? Murder? Carbon monoxide poisoning? 
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Cahersiveen is pronounced like eye, not like sieve. 
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Troy Townsend who does be on Guardian Football Weekly (also Head of Development at Kick it out) is Andros Townsend's dad
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Daniel Carr's brother played C.C. in The Deuce.
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sugar is 6 times more addictive than cocaine 
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Originally posted by Hotlips_Hoolahan Hotlips_Hoolahan wrote:

Cahersiveen is pronounced like eye, not like sieve. 
Not outside Kerry it’s notLOL
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Watching Top of the Pops on BBC4 from 1992.

Mike Oldfield with his Tubular Bells song released another song called Sentinel and its exactly the same tune almostLOL
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Originally posted by JUICEBOMB JUICEBOMB wrote:

sugar is 6 times more addictive than cocaine 

You'll have to provide a link for that piece of information. 
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Originally posted by Trap junior Trap junior wrote:

Watching Top of the Pops on BBC4 from 1992.

Mike Oldfield with his Tubular Bells song released another song called Sentinel and its exactly the same tune almostLOL

I must admit I was addicted to watching TOTP from the early 90s during lockdownLOL
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Another one from the TOTP 90's.

Sub Sub who released this song....


...was renamed Doves, famous for this song and others...

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Mikhail Gorbachev is still alive. Thought he died in the 90s!

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Originally posted by Shedite Shedite wrote:

Another one from the TOTP 90's.

Sub Sub who released this song....


...was renamed Doves, famous for this song and others...


Yeah I remember reading about that on Doves Spotify. I was like, how do you go from that to…. That.

But I guess many other examples.


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This lad's an on-screen personality for WWE now. Some stories to tell the kids.

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