OK, folks. The list is growing by the minute. So far we’re up to five. Here they are:
Ian Botham
Tony Jacklin
Graham Taylor
Ray Clemence
Kevin Keegan
Isn’t that just incredible?
A couple of additions from Kieran:
Donald Pleasence and maybe the Chuckle Brothers

I let the radio run on after Vincent Browne was over, playing away in the background, and there’s the usually-innocuous Eleventh Hour. I’m hardly listening, Bocking away as I am prior to retiring for the night, when I hear this dreadful RTE-style whine as some woman explains with great patience the Theseus myth.
Ond [...]

We went to Impact last night for their final Beckett offering. Endgame.
Ha!
What to make of it? Ha! I don’t know. I’ll have to think about it a lot, and maybe go again before they finish.
I won’t single out any performance. In fact, I won’t even mention just the cast of [...]

Ratzinger didn’t fall to his doom when he jumped out the bedroom window. As I was rooting around in the cellar, searching for a spare canister of polonium-210, I heard a feeble scratching sound and a little voice croaking from the shadows.
Ach, mein Gott, it has come to this, nicht war? I have [...]

All home improvement programmes are terrible, but Irish ones just seem to go one step further in awfulness, for some reason, and I can’t figure out why. Is it because they come from RTE-land. Is that it? Maybe that’s the reason Irish home-improvement programmes are shite.
What the fuck is going on in [...]

Can’t remember if I posted this or not. Captain Kirk singing Pulp’s Common People with Joe Jackson and Ben Folds. No doubt somebody will point out the mistake if I did.

. . . and a stand in the street at the turn of a joke. (As the great Guy Clark once wrote).
I sat in last night with the Bullet and Blackbeard to watch the second of the spaghetti westerns. They were called spaghetti westerns because they were shot in Spain – did you know [...]

I’m a modest soul, and I don’t like to beat my own drum too loudly in case people would think I was being conceited. But at the same time, you’d have to agree that my genius has given the world some wonderful inventions.
For instance, I’ve just finished developing a revolutionary new breakfast food which [...]

Sorry. I know I’ve been a bit remiss in recent weeks bringing you the latest on Scunthorpe United, but you’ll be delighted to know that they are now second in the league on 35 points. Obviously they can’t afford to relax, being a full six points behind league-leaders Nottingham Forest, but as they [...]

A few years ago, going back a bit now, myself and Wrinkly Paddy had a sort of failed career writing bad fiction. Hey, don’t knock it. We were happy and it kept us off the streets, so you know, hey, fuck off and let me alone. Ok?
Anyway, that wasn’t what I wanted [...]