I was shocked to read that he never went to Wembley in 2008 as he "didn't like crowds". No idea how many games he attends these days. Mind you, if he doesn't like crowds, he should start coming to home games.... BL was a very clever film with proper actors in it, and managed to be about 3 films in one: comedy, Angry Young Man, Swinging 60s etc. Leonard Rossiter is very good in it too. I see Tom gets to go to bed with Charlotte Rampling in his latest film - about 40 years too late. He was a mate of Omar Sharif, hence the Allam connection. Presumably Tom is too diplomatic to criticise the Allam family, like many others in their orbit.
Has anyone seem Sinitta at the KC recently ? Deemed important enough a fan to have a feature on her in the FA Cup Final programme v Arsenal. I doubt if she'd ever been to Boothferry Park or knows where the KC is. Heard she offered to sing before a game last season but wanted paying. As for Sir Tom. More mentions of Hull FC and the boulevard in his autobiography then mentions of him supporting City. Disappointing.
I imagine the publishers demanded more Hull Fc content to make it more saleable on the international market.
My mum and dad were on holiday in the Tyrol in the early 1970s. Omar Sharif was filming there with Micheal Caine, it was called the Lost Valley. Sharif and Caine used to come in the bar of the hotel where they were staying. My old man said it was funny to see females of all ages virtually throwing themselves at Sharif but all he wanted was to find some people who wanted to play bridge. Said he was charming but appeared rather alone and sad. Caine, who my old man said was another, at the time at least, pleasant bloke with no sense of his own importance, was organising a football game between the crew and the locals for a local charity. He got talking football and my dad mentioned I was a City fan. Sharif turned round and said how, when they were filming .Dr Zhivago, Tom Courtenay had the score relayed to him when City were playing. He must have been getting someone to ring Hull 211422. Sharif invited a few of them to a party but my folks were leaving the night before. Wish I had known they would end up talking to Omar Sharif. Could have got him to confirm if the rumour was true about Tom Courtenay taking him Omar Sharif and Ursula Andres to a game at BP and nobody noticing them, and it leading to Ursula Andres buying a season ticket at Chelsea as she had enjoyed the game so much. Andres did used to go to Stamford Bridge in the Swinging Sixties, when all sorts of stars were seen at The Bridge and along the King's Road. Unlikely it was true but would be great if it was. Talking of those days, interesting read about Peter Osgood. Proper blokes who although stars and earning more than the average fan hadn't lost touch with the fans completely. Interesting to read some of the names and one of his comments about a certain team. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1511873/Peter-Osgood-glamour-boy-of-the-real-mans-game.html
Elton John is the only famous person I can recall visiting BP was Elton John with his chopper on the training pitch. Can't imagine Ursula in the Well, although Lord Lucan himself could have had a season pass at the back of the N stand seats and no one would have known. I enjoyed Ursula's performance in the 1975 Italian classic 'L'infermiera'.
In the 1960s it would have been possible to see a game from the West Stand and not be noticed if you weren't wanting to be. Was that the 4-0 defeat? Elton told me to **** off at that game. And Shaun The Mental as well. Me for cracking a joke, which I found funny even if he didn't, about the defeat and Shaun for some remark about his sexual proclivities. To be fair he did lean forward over the directors' box to say it gently and didn't bawl it out in mixed and exalted company.
She came in a pub my lad was in at Cup Final. Gave him a kiss. Said she was friendly and talking to everybody but didn't like people using their phones to get a picture of her.
It was early November about 78 ? and John had been on Noel Edmonds Swop Shop in the morning and flew to Hull via helicopter for the game. Remember someone throwing a joke wig into the directors box. He took plenty of stick that afternoon especially as we won 4-0. Everyone one of us would have been locked up if it happened today. I thought he took it well.
Agreed. He didn't say **** off in an aggressive, snarling way to me, more as a passing comment to my joke. His response to Shaun The Mental's jibe had a bit more feeling though. I think it was the game where an on loan Paul Moss had a stormer, linking up with Edwards brilliantly.and Bannister scoring a couple.Everyone was chanting "sign him on". We did but he never reached the heights that he did in his on loan games.
