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unusual facts about The Last Minute


Elliot Graham

The Last Minute (Norrington-2001; co-editor with Stephen Norrington).



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2004 League of Ireland

Joseph Ndo set up Alan Moore to seal a 2-0 victory on the night in the last minute.

407th Forward Support Battalion

During Operation RESTORE DEMOCRACY in Haiti, the 407th was ready to deploy with Task Force Falcon, only to be stood down at the last minute.

61st Grey Cup

Gerry Organ kicked a 46-yard field goal in the last minute of the half.

Ahmed Elmohamady

In the 2009 Confederations Cup, he was sent off in Egypt's opening game against Brazil for deliberately handling Lúcio's goal-bound effort in the last minute, in an effort to save his team losing in the last minute.

Alessandro Corbelli

On 26 November 2007, while in London rehearsing for La Cenerentola, Corbelli stepped in at the last minute for a production of L'elisir d'amore at the Royal Opera House, singing the role of Belcore for the second half of the opera from the side of the stage while Ludovic Tézier, who had sung the first half with a throat infection, acted the role.

American football rules

Two famous examples of this gamble were by Nebraska in the last minute of the 1984 Orange Bowl (unsuccessful) and by Boise State in the first overtime of the 2007 Fiesta Bowl (successful).

Ben Joyce

He came along with assistant manager David Byrne, eventually making his first team debut for Swindon Town on 19 April 2008, scoring a goal in the last minute of a 6–0 win.

Bertie Johnston

However at the last minute Wilson and the leader of the Country Party Francis Willmott persuaded their followers to accept Johnston's nomination as Speaker.

Callippides

The Roman Emperor Tiberius was said to have made preparations almost yearly for a visit to the provinces and the armies stationed there, which he always cancelled at the last minute, with the result that "he was jokingly referred to as Callippides, who was known in the Greek proverb to run and make not a cubit of progress".

Deep Purple in Concert

The first CD features the live recording from the BBC Studios in London on 19 February 1970; the band stepped in at the last minute for Joe Cocker, who cancelled his scheduled appearance.

Detroit Wheels

John DeLorean tried to buy the team in hopes of keeping it in Detroit, but he backed out at the last minute.

Diego Castro

On 13 March 2011, after Nacho Novo gained a penalty kick in the last-minute of an away fixture against Villarreal CF, he converted it in Panenka-style for a final 1–1 draw – the visiting team was then reduced to only nine players.

Diego Tardelli

He was sent off in the last minute after arguing with referee Carlos Eugênio Simon about a polemic play he claimed a penalty.

Eduardo Newbery

On October 17, 1908, Eduardo Newbery took off on the aerostat "Pampero" along with Argentine Army Corporal Eduardo Romero (who happened board at the last minute responding to an invitation by Newbery).

Electronic Entertainment Expo

Sega also pulled out of attending at the last minute, leaving Nintendo as the only one of the 'big three' to appear.

Éric Caritoux

A promise he had forgotten about but the organisers had not, de Gribaldy was threatened with a £50,000 fine if the team did not ride, he had to scrape together a squad for the Vuelta at the last minute, this included the holidaying Caritoux, who was told to get to Geneva and then fly to Jerez de la Frontera in the south of Spain where the Vuelta was starting.

Ernst Kozub

Because of the quality of his voice, John Culshaw cast him as Siegfried in the Decca recording of Der Ring des Nibelungen, but his ailing health (kept as a secret by him at that time), which prevented him mastering the role within the short period of time given him by Decca led to his unfortunate replacement at the last minute by Wolfgang Windgassen.

It Happened in Athens

Both Nico Minardos and Bob Mathias were added as supporting characters at the last minute when the appearances of both Lt. Alexi and Coach Graham were lengthened to become more than bit players.

Jamie Dolan

Although Celtic scored one goal past Dolan – more the result of a short passback than a goalkeeping error – Motherwell's Ian Ross scored in the last minute of the game to secure a heroic 2–1 victory.

Joachim O. Fernández

In the election of 1946, Fernández briefly served as the reform candidate against Mayor Robert Maestri, but he withdrew from the race at the last minute after Maestri offered to pay his campaign expenses.

Kings XI Punjab

The team's pace department did not have much fire in them after Jerome Taylor backed out at the last minute with a fresh injury.

Lola T97/30

The cars were transported to Brazil for the race at Interlagos, but MasterCard withdrew their support (with all other sponsors later following MasterCard's suit at the last minute) and they remained in the garage for the rest of the weekend, subsequently withdrawing from the championship.

Martin Hodge

Hodge’s excellent form at Wednesday made him a favourite to make the England squad for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, however Hodge missed out at the last minute when Gary Bailey recovered from injury.

Michael Jamtfall

Ranheim's head coach Per Joar Hansen and assistant coach Otto Ulseth was not happy with the loss of one of their best players in the last minute, and claimed that Rosenborg had no respect for their club.

Mohammad Vali Mirza Farman Farmaian

Mohammad Vali Mirza escaped only at the last minute because he spoke to the general in French, prompting the general to realize, as Nogales wrote in his memoirs, "that he was a prince of the lineage of Farman Farma."

Mr. Dugan

Dugan is an American sitcom about a black Congressman that was scheduled to air in March 1979 on CBS, but was pulled at the last minute and never shown.

Mr. Roboto

The track was released as the first single from the album at the last minute instead of "Don't Let It End" at the request of A&M Records.

Nikolay Kolev – Michmana

Memorable quotes of his are:
"...the colleague Pele next to me..." (when the famous Brazilian footballer commented for some television in the next to the Kolev's cabin)
and "...God is Bulgarian..." (when Kostadinov scored a crucial goal in the last minute of the match between France and Bulgaria that took the Bulgarian team to the 1994 FIFA World Cup).

Odeon Beatclub

The band filled in at the last minute for a support slot in Greenock with Pete Doherty's band, Babyshambles, in September 2005, and were subsequently asked to play the remaining Scottish dates of their tour.

Rachid Harkouk

Then Harkouk came on as sub and scored to make it 3-2 with a scissors kick with only seconds left, Palace then added another in the last minute through Jeff Bourne.

Roger Mondragón

He made its professional debut in the 2010–11 season and he scored his first goal on 11 September 2010 in La Ceiba against C.D.S. Vida in the last minute of play and tied the game 2–2.

Rolf Herricht

Herricht starred in several other popular DEFA comedies during the 1960s and the 1970s: among others, he played the erratic National People's Army reserve soldier Ralf Horricht in the 1965 Der Reserveheld and the last-minute-travel-guide Hurtig in the 1967 Meine Freundin Sybille.

Ryan Noble

Coming on as a substitute in Sunderland's third place play-off with FC Groningen, Noble assisted Fraizer Campbell's 89th minute equaliser, and then scored a brilliant solo goal to give the Black Cats a 3–2 win in the last minute.

Shirley Timm-Rudolph

Timm-Rudolph was expected to face a difficult re-election contest in 1998, but instead won without difficulty after Russ Wyatt, her main opponent, decided to withdraw at the last minute.

Silence of the North

Lacy J. Dalton, but at the last minute, the title of the book was retained for the film.

Single-subject rule

These amendments are often put into bills at the last minute, so that any representative who may read the legislation before actually voting on it will not have a chance to catch it.

Slapp Happy

In June 1974, there were plans for a joint appearance by Slapp Happy and Virgin label mates Henry Cow and Robert Wyatt at a free concert in Hyde Park in London, but this was cancelled at the last minute.

Sofia Sakorafa

Sakorafa stirred controversy in 2004 when she became a Palestinian citizen and applied at the last minute for a berth on the Palestinian Olympic team at the age of 47.

Stord Airport, Sørstokken

Jens Ulltveit-Moe tried to establish Moving by purchasing two Dornier Do 228 aircraft from Norving and taking over the Sørstokken concessions, but in the last minute a new board in Norving would not sell the aircraft.

The DeCastro Sisters

In 1954, a more Americanized version of the DeCastro Sisters, were signed by a small country label, Abbott Records, and their first release featured "It's Love" as the A-side, backed by an obscure Sammy Cahn-Gene DePaul song, "Teach Me Tonight", that had been suggested at the last minute by their bass player.

The God of Cookery

Chow arrives at the competition at the last minute, and reveals to Tong what had happened: Chow escaped the assassin's second bullet, and found his way to a Shaolin monastery, where head monk Wet Dream (a spoof on the Chinese word for nocturnal spermatorrhea) nursed him back to health.

Tom Sharkey

Unable to find a referee, at the last minute they called on former lawman Wyatt Earp.

Turnabout Intruder

Originally scheduled to air at 10pm on Friday, March 28, 1969, the network pre-empted it at the last minute with a special report on former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had died earlier that day.

Unknown World

The expedition, consisting of Jim Bannon, Marilyn Nash, Otto Waldis, Tom Handley and Dick Cogan begins, after government funding has fallen through and they are bailed out at the last minute with private financing from a newspaper heir Bruce Kellogg, who insists on going with them as a lark.

Verse-chorus-verse

"Sappy", removed at the last minute from In Utero and placed on No Alternative instead

Vote splitting

Likewise, any supporters of Republican Tom McClintock changed their mind at the last minute and voted for Schwarzenegger for fear of the Democratic candidate, Cruz Bustamante, winning.

You're Telling Me!

During the train trip home, feeling that he's failed completely, Sam contemplates committing suicide by drinking a bottle of iodine, but decides against it at the last minute.

Yvonne Ridley

She was given all necessary clearances by the external affairs ministry, but was denied a visa at the last minute because of the tense situation in Hyderabad following the arrest of the local legislator Akbaruddin Owaisi a few days back.

Ziad Jarrah

Khalid al-Masri and Mohamedou Ould Slahi convinced them at the last minute to travel instead to Afghanistan to meet with Osama bin Laden and train for terrorist attacks.