Malone & Jigjag
Thanks for the invitation to share some sporting anecdotes at your prestigious event - which I am delighted to accept!
I hope your audience will have been nicely`warmed up` in the Green Room and are not easily offended. One true tale I can relate,even in mixed company, concerns my hero and fellow Tyke, Fred Trueman.
Fred`s first wife Enid was the Mayor of Scarborough`s daughter and they often visited a Pub In Scarborough at Sunday lunchtimes.
Enid was with a group of friends on one side of the bar while Fred was holding court on the other. Fred modestly said to someone `Aye, she`s married a bloody genius, ya know` (he pronounced it `genie-arse). Enid overheard this and shouted over the bar `Aye, the trouble with you, Fred, is you`re all arse and no genie`.