You should read Today South London Tomorrow South London by Deserter.....about a pub crawl (over several days), with some crazy and bizarre friends and acquaintances around the South Circular.
I wrote the Big Ron columns for Bravo in 98 and then the TV shorts. Sadly, none of them exist anymore. Sky bought Bravo and closed it down. Shame. We had a right laugh filming with him at the derelict St Pancras Hotel and IMAX at Waterloo. There's no doubt he was a bit racist, reminding me of my dad and many of his generation, but he was also warm and funny and would talk to anyone, endlessly, about football.
Ron was a big fan of Curbs, though when I mentioned this to Curbs, he looked at me with a bit of suspicion, I thought. Mind you, we were in the bogs at the time.
He agreed Chrissy Powell was a good signing for us but just felt he lacked a final ball, as I recall.
He epitomises what football should be about for me - a bit of entertainment - no more s racist than anybody else but as has been said, a man of his time - had a pet cockateel back in the mid 90 s called Big Ron
He epitomises what football should be about for me - a bit of entertainment - no more s racist than anybody else but as has been said, a man of his time - had a pet cockateel back in the mid 90 s called Big Ron
How original.....he must have spent many an hour thinking that name up.
Woke up in the middle of the night last night when the sun rose and could not get back to sleep. For some reason found myself reading that blog and quickly laughed myself back to sleep, priceless!
He epitomises what football should be about for me - a bit of entertainment - no more s racist than anybody else but as has been said, a man of his time - had a pet cockateel back in the mid 90 s called Big Ron
How original.....he must have spent many an hour thinking that name up.
The ronglish website is well worth a look - the lollipop, amusement arcade and the full gun particular favourites - replacing big Ron with Brian little - crazy !!! When big ron replaced the dour vengloss he told the press they could call him any time for a quote - just not on a Friday at 9 coz he’d be watching the sweeney !!!
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I wrote the Big Ron columns for Bravo in 98 and then the TV shorts. Sadly, none of them exist anymore. Sky bought Bravo and closed it down. Shame. We had a right laugh filming with him at the derelict St Pancras Hotel and IMAX at Waterloo. There's no doubt he was a bit racist, reminding me of my dad and many of his generation, but he was also warm and funny and would talk to anyone, endlessly, about football.
Ron was a big fan of Curbs, though when I mentioned this to Curbs, he looked at me with a bit of suspicion, I thought. Mind you, we were in the bogs at the time.
He agreed Chrissy Powell was a good signing for us but just felt he lacked a final ball, as I recall.
No wonder he’s revered at West Brom - that team of the late 70s was mustard. I remember seeing them dismantling Arsenal one Boxing Day at Highbury.