toyboy54
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The well respected sports journalist Hugh McIlvanney died this earlier this week but what awake his friends and family are going to have as the man with the gravel voice coated in honey had the proviso in his will that £10,000 was to be specifically spent on drinks/food for his friends and family at his wake!Pure Class;just sums the man up.
I don't know if everyone is familiar with his writings in various newspapers(latterly The Observer?) but you can give yourself a treat by listening to a series of interviews he did with Radio Scotland-Sportsound-The McIlvanney Conversations (6 episodes)covering football/boxing/horseracing and life.
This man doesn't just talk---- he caresses words and gives you a new perspective on our language.His stories and reminisces about the great and the good and the characters whom he met and actually became friends with will impress the hell out of you.A truly amazing,erudite and intellectual man from the coal fields of Ayrshire.
Wish I was going to his send-off,pure class!!!! DFT and SILH, in fact all from Gods chosen country would enjoy.
Happy Jimbo
I don't know if everyone is familiar with his writings in various newspapers(latterly The Observer?) but you can give yourself a treat by listening to a series of interviews he did with Radio Scotland-Sportsound-The McIlvanney Conversations (6 episodes)covering football/boxing/horseracing and life.
This man doesn't just talk---- he caresses words and gives you a new perspective on our language.His stories and reminisces about the great and the good and the characters whom he met and actually became friends with will impress the hell out of you.A truly amazing,erudite and intellectual man from the coal fields of Ayrshire.
Wish I was going to his send-off,pure class!!!! DFT and SILH, in fact all from Gods chosen country would enjoy.
Happy Jimbo