This season will be the final curtain on a player who belongs in the Big Conversation, about the greatest to ever play the game.
TI's chairmanship last September, Marco Tronchetti Provera, Pirelli's chairman, must be hoping that this will bring down the final curtain on an adventure that has proved hugely expensive for Pirelli's shareholders, of which he is the largest.
The GAA intends to play the Tommy Murphy Cup Final at Croke Park on 27 August as the curtain raiser to the second Bank of Ireland All Ireland football championship semi-final.
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Now Luhrmann feels La Boheme marks the final chapter in his "red curtain work" which included Romeo and Juliet, Moulin Rouge and Strictly Ballroom.
And expect some tears when Ipswich help Cardiff play out Ninian Park's final chapter on Saturday when the curtain is set to drop on the club's home of 99 years.
The curtain will come down for the final time later on a 100-year-old Suffolk theatre staging its last production.
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Behind the curtain, the male bodybuilders were preparing for the final pose-down.
It is a nod to his sell-out Wembley Stadium show, The Final, with Andrew Ridgeley in 1986 - when he brought the curtain down on Wham!
As the clock ticks towards curtain time, the filmmaker still doesn't have the final set-list, and is getting jittery.
He played his final Test in 1972 at the age of 41, against Australia, bringing down the curtain on an international career which had seen him win 44 caps, score 2, 484 runs and five centuries at an average of 40.06, while taking 47 wickets at 39.55 runs apiece.
His father, arrested by the Nazis during the war as an opponent of Hitler, somehow secretly heard on the BBC where the final demarcation between Soviet and Western forces would be - the line of what would become the Iron Curtain.
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