Not quite true ... but knew Lineker from playing footie as a lad ... have shared a table with David Gower in the pub when he first started out as my local was The Cricketers next to the cricket ground (surprise, surprise) ... grew up a street away from Grace Rd ... and on that theme, Jonathan Agnew was a regular in our offy when he was a young player with Leicestershire ... he had a weakness for jelly babies ... we used to sell sweets from the old fashioned jars ... and used to bunk off school in the summer and play snooker at Osbournes in the city centre as a teenager ... Willie Thorne used to practice there before he bought his own club ... lovely fella, always gave us a nod ...
... oh ... nearly forgot ... Engelbert Humperdink was my dad