PERSONAL DETAILS
Age: 32.
Birthplace: Leeds.
FOOTBALL
Team supported: Leeds Utd.
Best and worst memory of your team: Winning the title in 1992, Losing to Bayern Munich in the 1975 European Cup Final.
Your team’s best and worst player (current or non-current): Eddie Gray, Kevin Hird.
Most memorable England match: 1973, England 1 Poland 1 at Wembley.
Best and worst England player seen: Norman Hunter, Mike Duxbury.
Position you play: Right midfield.
Your best and worst moment as a player: Scoring only goal of the game for Hull University 3rd team at Bradford University in quarter-finals of UAU National Championships.
Booting a ball up a tree in my first ever game for Manston Middle School and being called a silly lad and belted round the head by Mr Fletcher as a result.
DRINKING
Favourite pint: Tetley bitter in Leeds
Number of pints before you fall over: not applicable.
Number of pints before you hit the shorts: Don’t do any of that southern softie thing.
Favourite short when the going gets tough: not applicable.
Amount of alcohol (pints plus shorts) before you’re seriously ill: not applicable.
Favourite venue after closing time - club/curry house/strip joint/gambling den/bed: all of them.
First thing you normally do on returning home from heavy drinking session (if memory serves): Forget to drink any water/apologise to neighbours for being in the wrong house - again.
Favourite breakfast after aforementioned session: Full English.
WOMEN
Woman you’d most like to be washed up on a desert island with: woman who happens to own an ocean going liner.
FAVOURITE
Newspaper: The Independent.
Non-alcoholic drink: low sugar extra light ribena.
Food: pie and chips (with gravy).
Holiday destination: Sydney.
Film: Scrooge (1973 version with George C. Scott).
Book: The Headingley Story.
Television programme: Auf Wiedersehen Pet.
Music: Easy listening.
Band: Black Lace.
Album: Black Lace’s Greatest Hit.
LEAST FAVOURITE
Newspaper: The Sun.
Non-alcoholic drink: Vimto.
Food: Salad.
Holiday destination: Anywhere in Wales.
Film: Natural Born Killers.
Book: Anything about rah rah.
Music: Anything too noisy.
OTHERS
All time sporting hero: Jonah Lomu, simply for providing the funniest moment ever in sport when he made monkeys out of the England rah rahs (who happen to be monkeys) in the 1995 World Cup.
Your ideal weekend: Saturday at Elland Road and Leeds strump Manchester United, Sunday at Headingley as Leeds destroy Wigan. Several pints of Tetleys in between.
The one thing that really makes your blood boil: Stephen Jones, Sunday Times, rah rah correspondent.
