If I wasn't a squaddie, aid worker and accountant I would like to have been a wild life show presenter. What was your first car? Ford Cortina MkIII What is, in your opinion, the greatest song ever recorded? Agadoo, too many classics to choose from so gone for my personal worst. What's your TV guilty pleasure; what do you enjoy watching when you get time? CSI If somebody made a film of your life, which actor would you like to play you? Steve McQueen What's the nicest place you've ever visited? Kenya If you could throw a dinner party for any three people in history, dead or alive, who would they be? Dennis Hopper, Ali and Churchill What would you cook for them? Thai What is your favourite sport apart from football? Rugby Crystal ball time â what do you think you will be doing in 2030? Retired and travelling the world Who was your footballing hero as a boy? George Best who is the person you most admire and why? David Attenborough. I watched his natural world programmes as a boy in Llanedeyrn and they gave me my interest and fascination in the animal kingdom. This has led me to travel the world as much as I can and see as much wild and aquatic life. What player that has graced the Barclays Premier League in the past 20 years stands out for you and why? Dennis Bergkamp, silky skills and excellent finisher with an ice cool temperament.
If you hadn't been a ?, what career would you have had instead? Politician - NOT a Tory. What was your first car? Nissan Datsun Sunny. What is, in your opinion, the greatest song ever recorded? Thunder Road / Motorycycle Emptiness / Layla / Stairway to Heaven- can't choose What's your TV guilty pleasure; what do you enjoy watching when you get time? Spooks; Andrew Marr Show. If somebody made a film of your life, which actor would you like to play you? Dame Peggy Ashcroft. What's the nicest place you've ever visited? Slovenia, Lake Bled area. If you could throw a dinner party for any three people in history, dead or alive, who would they be? Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Nelson Mandela. What would you cook for them? Pizza - it's all I can manage. What is your favourite sport apart from football? Tennis. Crystal ball time â what do you think you will be doing in 2030? Pushing up daisies. Who was your footballing hero as a boy? Brian Clark. Who is the person you most admire and why? Tony Blair - don't laugh, he did get rid of the Tories after too long a long time. Plus, like DJ (love him or hate him) he was not a liar, unlike nearly all politicians of all parties. What player that has graced the Barclays Premier League in the past 20 years stands out for you and why? Di Canio - can you imagine Rooney etc doing what he did? A gentleman in some -if not all -respects.
Sparkey......what a team that was....I was born 1960, so the Chelsea v Leeds FA Cup Final in '70 was probably the geatest march in my (vague) memory - Chelsea were my team anyway (youngsters...forget ubout the pampered prima-donnas associated with the club these days...these were good honest pro's.....a bit of steel (Chopper Harris, Dempsey) & bit of flair (Charlie, Ossie)......I used to pride myself in remembering the lineups of both the teams that day...but I'm afraid age & senility have seen an end to that....can anyone refresh my memory.....Leeds (something ...like 1. Sprake, 2. Reaney??? 3. Terry Cooper 4. Bremner 5. Charlton 6. Hunter 7. Lorimer 8. Giles??/ 9. Mick Jones 10. ???? 11. Eddie Gray......... Chelsea won the reply...remember watching both games on the bbc on a black & white tv. Two marvellous teams....sigh...memories
Dickydykie - I was priviliged to watch that Chelsea team in its' latter years from the Shed at the Bridge whilst I was up in SW3 as a student apprentice. Went up there in late '72 fresh from school at the age of 16, and just caught the last year or so of Ossie - he was just sublime. So much time on the ball and supreme confidence with it at his feet made him the greatest at the time for me. In my view, Sexton ballsed it all up when he fell out with Ossie, Hudson and a few others and shipped them out. Ossie became a legend at Southampton under McMenemy and was arguably a better player for it. Huds didn't play in the Final though, I think he was injured and Tommy Baldwin took his place. BTW, you forgot Sniffer Clarke in that Leeds CF lineup. He was No.8, Giles always wore 10 - and also BTW, I watched it in Colour! Football apart, I learnt more about real life in those 3 years up there than I'd done in the previous 10 at school. The release from schoolboy rules into the real working world in the Fulham area was just mind blowing - literally at times.
Proph - up yours matey....... I don't want to dispute YOUR age mate, but I got hold of this portrait of you doing your national service: - please log in to view this image
Nah remote, fraid not, that wasn't Proph. Owain's 11 was much later. I think Proph's manager was someone called Julius........
