""Leeds United, Leeds reserves, Leeds youth team, Leeds Permanent Building Society pub team, Leeds and Holbeck pub team, Leeds ice-hockey team, East Leeds chess under-19s, South Leeds over-19s poker team, anyone with Leeds in their name. And Middlesbrough."For a man known as Village, as in idiot, Jonathan Woodgate is responsible for one of the best-ever responses to a routine questionnaire about which teams' results he looks out for first. For the purpose of clarification Woodgate now disputes that he mentioned East Leeds chess under-19s, just as he disputes that it was he who was known as Village at Elland Road.
"Ask David Batty, ask anyone," Woodgate pleaded, "it wasn't my nickname, it was Nigel Martyn's. We used to call him the Village Idiot. I was called The Llama - me, Alan Smith and Dominic Matteo were called The Three Llamas, I don't know why. But I wasn't the Village Idiot, Nigel was the Village Idiot. Nigel was 35 and we were all 18, 19 and he wanted to be like us. Which is fair enough." [From an article in today's Guardian: Woodgate Living The Dream.]
OK, Jonathan. we believe you; but what's the business with THAT haircut?
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You and hair ...what is it all about ? Noticed a trend that several of your posts in the past mention peoples hair (or your own ...)
From one with rapidly disappearing hair and any hairstyle would be desirable as long as there was enough of it
Swine.
You've stumbled upon my achilles hair. I was going to write a 2000 word post on the profile in today's Observer about that other postie named Alan Johnston, and how the interviewer, Rachel Cooke, seems fascinated by the fact that he uses pomade.
Oops,
I meant to write achilles 'heel'.
Did you also notice that I like to post cartoons of bald characters on the blog. I've got issue, big time.
BTW, kudos to the comrades on the party activity this past weekend in Glasgow and in Edinburgh.
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