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Big_Bird

Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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Junior

Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Location: the eye
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Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 12:15 am Post subject: Re: Alex "Hurricane" Higgins is dead. |
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How did such a handsome chap end up looking like Gollum? |
I hung out at a bar in Belfast a couple of times where he was a regular. Never saw him, but a couple of people there mentioned his habitual alcaholic excesses. I think he was basically broke most of the time. |
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Big_Bird

Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 6:40 pm Post subject: Re: Alex "Hurricane" Higgins is dead. |
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Junior wrote: |
Big_Bird wrote: |
How did such a handsome chap end up looking like Gollum? |
I hung out at a bar in Belfast a couple of times where he was a regular. Never saw him, but a couple of people there mentioned his habitual alcaholic excesses. I think he was basically broke most of the time. |
Yeah, a drinking habit can age someone well beyond their years. |
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Mosley
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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I freely admit I'd never heard of him till now.
But he seems to have been a stand-up guy...assaulting referees, threatening the lives of other players....
"Working man's hero" indeed!  |
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