RIP thread

[Durhamfootman]

2 footballers in a day

Kevin Campbell, 54, short illness, but no further details

Matija Sarkic, 26, collapsed. He was playing for Montenegro last week

[andy]

Kevin Campbell had a kidney disease

[Durhamfootman]

Kevin Campbell had a kidney disease

he seems to have gone downhill suddenly, so I'm wondering if he got sepsis

[Durhamfootman]

Anouk Aimee, 92

I imagine Arthur knows more about her than I do

[Arthur Crabtree]

A great beauty of course. RIP.

Quite well known over here as she spoke English and was in a few UK films. She had a memorable supporting role in The Man Who Watched Trains Go By, which is a film I like a lot.

Has some arthouse credentials as she was in Fellini's 8½ and La Dolce Vita.

But best known anywhere for Un Homme et une Femme, a popular sixties romance. Which is well worth seeing. Lola (1961) is great too.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Donald Sutherland at 88.

Seems like he was acting up to the present time.

Most memorable to me for Don't Look Now, my pick as the best ever horror film, and among the very greatest British films.

But he came to UK in the sixties and turns up in support roles in really odd films and tv. Like the awesome Die! Die! My Darling! as a gardener with severe learning disabilities who has a thing for Stefanie Powers.

But more popularly, best known for his US hits, MASH, Kelly's Heroes, Dirty Dozen, Day of the Locust, Klute and Ordinary People.

RIP.

[Durhamfootman]

hadn't spotted this

definitely 'don't look now'..... very scary. I thought he was terrific as Oddball in KH. Always with the negative waves, Moriarty

RIP

[GarlicJam]

When his name comes up, I airways think of Day of the Locusts

A disturbing film. Mostly for his character.

[Durhamfootman]

Frank Duckworth, 84

[Arthur Crabtree]

Of Duckworth Lewis Method. Didn't click when you posted.

Now, Shelley Duvall. Star of the Shining and Thieves Like Us.

[Durhamfootman]

Ray Reardon, 91

[Arthur Crabtree]

Very sad to read of Graham Thorpe's death at 55. One of English cricket's all time batting legends.

[Gingerfinch]

Yes very sad and surprising news.

rip

[sussexpob]

I'd be hard pressed to find a batter I liked more who played for England. A shining light in an era of low quality.... being dropped in 2005 after a period of brilliant quality output was disrespectful, but I guess Fletcher will justify it on England picking KP instead and winning the Ashes. Wonderful puller of the ball, deadly off his pads, and an excellent back foot player into the offside. Could defend dogmatically, but also cut you apart with an array of shots.

Nothing proves the last statement more true than at Colombo in 2001. Batted an age in challenging conditions in the first innings grinding out a 100, then in the second after the pitch crumbled to dust and SL were all out for 80, and England looked like they might not even reach 75, Thorpe played boldly and quickly to hit the runs before he ran out of partners.

A batting average of 45 might not be all time great stuff, but he straddled one of the toughest periods of bowling in the mid to late 90s, and courtesy of being English had to bat more than others against the very best of it, and in classic English conditions were scores were lower..... and at a time he had almost no one else to back him up. It says a lot that after the team got better in post-2000s, he averaged 55 for nearly half his career... when the team got better and he wasnt last man standing, he was as good as some of the best.

As a person, he was a hard guy to read. His personality fell on that part of the spectrum where nonchalance can be confused as not caring, introspection confused as coldness, and shyness as arrogance or unapproachability. Nothing summed that up more than him smashing a run a ball 25 against NZ in 1999 while Alex Tudor, whose miracle batting had won the match, was left on 99* with 7 wickets left. Thorpe promotly smashed boundaries around and left his team mate stranded from a historical 100....there was something in that which felt he couldnt be a worse team-mate. Tudor never said anything negative openly, but I'd have pinned him up on a dressing room wall.

Atherton once said Thorpe was one of those guys that when he was good, he was the best guy to be around, and when he was at his worst he could drag a dressing room down. Probably a good way to put it. He cut a troubled figure at times, something he himself acknowledges..... in many ways that air he had makes me unsurprised he passed early.

But in the end, he was my first cricketing love. A classy, gritty player of immense talent. I send my condolences to his family. 55 is no age....

RIP Thorpey

[Arthur Crabtree]

My personal favourite innings was his 119* in Bridgetown in 2004, which I expect I've commented on in the past. But objectively, it's his batting in SL. His 200* off 231 balls in Christchurch attracted a lot of attention.

Tough like Allan Border in the middle. But not so much off the pitch.