Richard Irvine-Brown

Also an Ealing Comedy, Hue & Cry.

The best David Lean (Zhivago, Lawrence, Kwai, Expectations), the great Ealing Comedies (Ladykillers, KH&C, LHM, White Suit), the good Star Wars, and BBC’s Tinker Tailor.

Alec Guinness.

Because I’m a karate man and a karate man bleeds on the inside.

Pretty sure I own this Bolt Thrower album.

I don't disapprove, but Bicycle Race is better, and I feel like we, collectively, proved this a few weeks ago.

They should get rid of the toss in Tests. Coins are boring. In the Ashes, the toss should be replaced with a 50 metre firewalk race between the two captains.

This is also why it is good to have large squads on tour.

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With a little bit of context for, and transparency of, our investigation: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

I know. Bicycle Race has been robbed.

Please read the below. It was a lot of work, and drawn from ~50 videos for which we confirmed the locations.

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8/x

All over! The curtain comes down and the roar goes up!

UNDER PRESSURE - 23

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY - 26

Perhaps the most predictable song has won, but perhaps we should consider what a bizarre song it is to be so popular.

A worthy winner.

But I love Bicycle Race.

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7/x

A little bit of space for one side over the other now.

If we get a late flurry, we’ll get the highest-scoring game of the cup, which would be fitting.

Come on, where do you stand? Vanilla Ice or Wayne’s World?

Vote #UP or #BR to decide the greatest Queen song ever.

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6/x

There was one vote in it when I went out earlier.

I come back, votes have pretty much doubled, but there’s still only one vote in it.

Tight, high-scoring. Neither team getting a run together.

More like a tactical snooker frame than a football match.

Which I like.

I will simply shake my head and take it as a vote for Under Pressure.

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5/x

Voting is open.

Reply #UP for Under Pressure, or #BR for Bohemian Rhapsody.

Vote closes at 10pm and we will have a winner.

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4/x

In my purple corner, nominated by 11 friends, voted for 115 times in this tournament, seeing off Now I'm Here, I Want It All, Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy, Radio Ga Ga, and Another One Bites The Dust:

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

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3/x

In my gold corner, nominated by 10 friends, voted for 110 times in this tournament, with victories over Teo Torriatte, Too Much Love Will Kill You, A Kind Of Magic, Don't Stop Me Now and Killer Queen:

UNDER PRESSURE

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2/x

Hopefully, you've been filling in your World Cup wallchart.

In case you have not...

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FINAL THREAD 1/x

OK, here we go.

We have had 1,753 votes in this tournament so far and they have sorted all the Queen songs 12 of my friends and I could think of to a last pair.

Let's step onto the stage at the Hammersmith Apollo and pretend it's Christmas Eve.

I’m taking an early vote!

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That’s it! All over! We have our final pair.

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST, the most streamed Queen song on a popular site - 14

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, in more top 10s than any other Queen song - 25

Tomorrow. We finish this thing.

Get hyped.

Or don’t. I’m not your boss.

You’d like Midnight Vultures, you weirdo. It’s like Where You Been but without the fuzz and distortion and rocking bits.

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One of these songs has maintained a consistent 2:1 ratio votes.

Totally in control.

Can we get a late flurry like we’ve had in some games? Turn the vote upside down?

Tell me: Which is the better Queen song, Another One Bites The Dust or Bohemian Rhapsody?

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Two principles, here.

Another One Bites The Dust is the most streamed Queen song on a popular site, as was Here Comes The Sun (the Beatles winner).

But each game in this cup has been won by the song with the most nominations at the start. In this case, Bohemian Rhapsody.

Vote!

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Wake up, babe, we have the other semi-final to do.

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I’m not saying we’ve whittled this down to the hits, but this could have been Stone Cold Crazy v More Of That Jazz. Y’know, like we were cool and edgy.

Anyway, VOOOTE

See, this is the kind of bring-it-on chat I’m trying to get going, here.

I’ll get adjacent: Not only is Bicycle Race actually the best Queen song, it is one of the greatest pop/rock/whatever songs of all time.

Interesting. No. The other thing. Tedious.

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That’s it! All over!

KILLER QUEEN - 17

UNDER PRESSURE - 19

The song which gave us Vanilla Ice’s career is into the final.

Finally, recognition for the narrator from the Snowman.

Semi-final 2: The Semi Revenge kicks off tomorrow morning.

It was a Hermes-heavy episode anyway.

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One song edging ahead.

You have until the end of this Futurama episode. Then I’m calling time.

Football analogy: I’m watching the funny show about the cantankerous robot and the idiot lobster. It has nothing to do with football.

Reply to vote!

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Still only one vote in it.

One. Yours.

Will it be #KQ for Killer Queen or #UP for Under Pressure?

Clock will go a bit longer as we started late. Or I get the result I want.