Now that Kevin Proctor is no longer playing for Barrow, two of G'EB!'s regular contributors aren't going to be able to use their famous 'Well of course, I was in the same class as Kev at school, you know' claim to fame. While Clint Wags can always fall back on his old chestnut 'I was at University with General Gowan of Nigeria,' our online Editor now finds that his top ten claims to fame have suddenly been cut to the nine. And pretty desperate they are too, as we're sure you'll agree as you read...

ON-LINE ED's CLAIMS to FAME

(in order of decreasing impressiveness)
  1. Served ex-Liverpool manager Joe Fagan with a copy of British Soccer Week while working on a station bookstall in Sydney, Australia in 1988.

  2. Once mistook Canadian snooker player Bill Werbenuik for the bouncer in Scorpio, back in the days when it was still Maxims.

  3. Has a friend who appeared as one of the backing musicians for the group DNA on Top of the Pops in January 1992.

  4. Once walked past Griff Rhys Jones on a side street off Tottenham Court Road.

  5. Sat next to actor Tony Melody on a train from Poulton-le-Fylde in 1983.

  6. Used to work in an office where the typist lived next door to Judd Lander, record producer for Culture Club, etc.

  7. Was on the same course at college as a girl with the same name as Australian swimming champion, Tracey Wickham.

  8. Knows someone whose ex-girlfriend's big sister once contracted a social disease (allegedly) from Errol Brown, lead singer of popular seventies singing combo, Hot Chocolate.

  9. Is online editor of Give 'Em Beans!
Issue 024 - January 1996

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