Come In 7721, you're pushing it too far.

Well done Gerry on completing the half-marathon - quite an achievement for a man of your age. Did you give the money to the Cats & Dogs Home again? And where was our request for sponsorship?

As i say in the email, see you in 2016.

Don't want to be a bus driver in Brixton all my life

You know the way a song reminds you of a certain place or time - well Clifford took the whole thing a little bit further by letting the song tell him where to go for the rest of his life.

Thankfully he wasn't listening to the Dead Kennedy's "Holiday in Cambodia" during those crucial formative years in the mid-seventies, but rather chose this lovely little number by Typically Tropical....

The sinuses - 1982

As teenagers and in our early twenties, most of us owned up to our inebriation and indeed our honking (Champions league winner - Gerry in Annabels - top of the League then and top of the League now) but the man from Brewery Road was always different - the sinuses always got him before the booze did. It got so bloody repetitive that we actually began to believe it.

Here' a close-up picture of the sinuses strinking the great man very early one night in March 1982. He recovered a week later.

Chelsea score five at the Lane

Sadly it became a bit of a habit after this, until the last two years of course.

May we never forget what these people did to our country

A new take on Shakespeare

Took my wife out last Saturday night

To Finn Park in Ballybofey to be precise. Never let it be said that I don't know how to look after a lady.

She may not have known it but the trip was a passage of rites as I completed the "set" of LOI First Division away grounds. The complete list reads - Tolka Park, Dublin; Belfield Bowl, Dublin; Morton Stadium, Dublin; Finn Park, Ballybofey; Station Road, Kildare; Jackman Park; Limerick; Terryland Park, Galway; Gortakeegan, Monaghan; Lissywoolen, Athlone; Flancare Park, Longford and Ferrycarrig, Wexford.

Seven wins, three draws and one defeat.