A good guy and a family man, he was also immense in the promotion season, the double save against Forrestieri's penalty is one of my all time Amex great memories.
Biggest regret of my life is having a ticket for The Jam's final ever gig at the Brighton Centre in 1982 and giving it to my kid sister. I'd seen The Jam loads of times and she had never seen them, so didn't want her to miss out on seeing the best live band around.
A friend of mine was out with his (very attractive) fiancée in a bar and Weller took a liking to her, barged in between the pair of them and tried chatting her up with the ‘I’m Paul Weller’ spiel.
Great, possibly the greatest songwriter of that post punk period, but an ******** with it too.
Having lived in the North West most of my life one of the highlights was putting in an order from some of the local casuals whenever teams from the area were playing in Europe. They would go over with empty bags and come back with them stuffed full of the latest clothing they’d liberated from...
For me the best are Teresa Orlowski, not a fan of Dolly Buster. A shout out too for Sarah Young, who whilst originally from England became Hans Moser's second wife and so had a German passport.
If only Potter had been truly shit and then we could have spent today worrying about relegation on Sunday instead of wondering whether this thread will end up in 'NSC Gold'