As an ex-pro footballer, you may not be surprised to learn that...

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"As an ex-pro footballer, you may not be surprised to learn that I'm keen to help people combat obesity."

--Ian Wright, on my box of Fruit 'n Fibre

G00blar, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:24 (eighteen years ago)

...I've had most of the venereal diseases, and I'm pleased to say they are treatable!

G00blar, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

...I've had my right foot bronzed.

G00blar, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

... I am in deep denial about my sexuality.

Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

...I manage a pub.

(Seventies edition)

Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

... I own a bar in Costa Brava

(Eighties edition)

Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:29 (eighteen years ago)

... I manage a football team

Tom D., Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:29 (eighteen years ago)

...someone wrote this sentence for me in order that it would be grammatically accurate and contain no cliches.

ailsa, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:29 (eighteen years ago)

(apart from the cliche of footballers being illiterate and prone to spouting cliches, obviously)

ailsa, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:30 (eighteen years ago)

...I shot a man in Runcorn, just to watch him die.

Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:30 (eighteen years ago)

(By the way, "an ex-pro footballer", sounds American to me)

Tom D., Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:30 (eighteen years ago)

"... I just love the little people, they crack me up."

Thomas, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:31 (eighteen years ago)

...I am in receipt of full disability allowance on account of me crippling neck pain.

Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:31 (eighteen years ago)

...we do not have capital punishment here (Norway), and life imprisonment is not happening either

Tom D., Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:32 (eighteen years ago)

...I am currently in a legal dispute with me kids over the Scalextric set I bought them in 1983.

Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:33 (eighteen years ago)

... I secretly think All-Bran is shite, and eat pie and chips for breakfast JUST BECAUSE I CAN.

Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

...I drink everyone's milkshakes.

Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

I hate the coloureds

Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:35 (eighteen years ago)

I am hard at work destabilising the managerial regime at my former club.

Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:36 (eighteen years ago)

...I'm signing on.

Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:36 (eighteen years ago)

... I'm voting Tory

Tom D., Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:36 (eighteen years ago)

(Actually my uncle IS an ex-pro footballer. He never got to appear on a box Scott's Porage Oats however...)

Tom D., Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:38 (eighteen years ago)

...I'm chilling out with my favourite CDs - Blue, Another Level, a1, real cutting-edge R&B like...

Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

me and Tim Lovejoy are off down Laser Quest this weekend

Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

... I've already broken the injunction my ex-wife took out against me.

Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

...I'm managing the Laotian national side.

Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

... Ashley Cole allegedly stuck a mobile phone up my arse

Tom D., Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

...I'm telling you that the GOLF SALE is THAT WAY.

Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:48 (eighteen years ago)

I'm delighted to be here, handing out gifts at the Cirencester School for Boys year end awards.

Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

...I have been photographed with some alledgedly criminal types, but you can't very well refuse Big Vern's request for a picture. And besides I was with my girlfriend in bed at the time of the crime.

Billy Dods, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 11:42 (eighteen years ago)

...I can't get you tickets for the derby match.

Billy Dods, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

...I can get you tickets for the Derby match.

Tom D., Tuesday, 26 February 2008 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

...I never share a bath with the missus

blueski, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 11:54 (eighteen years ago)

...I'm sitting in a sleazy snackbar supping sickly sausage rolls.

Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 11:55 (eighteen years ago)

...I've just been signed up by Roy Hodgson.

Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 11:55 (eighteen years ago)

...I've just been up Roy Hodgson.

Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 12:30 (eighteen years ago)

... I walk around hotels naked with "MAD" written on my forehead and communicate via plastic parrots.

onimo, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

That's no way to talk about Lindisfarne.

Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

... i think "food and drink" is a common expression to mean something that somebody does day in day out with ease.

ken c, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 12:35 (eighteen years ago)

... I am not aware of the grammatical concept of misplaced modifiers.

ledge, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 12:39 (eighteen years ago)

...at the end of the day, I have diminished bouncebackability.

Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 12:41 (eighteen years ago)

...I continue to offer anecotes in the present tense. I've come in, been asked a question and given an answer and I'm pleased with that.

blueski, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 12:54 (eighteen years ago)


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