John Gibson: Caught in the draught with Earnie
We met in Edinburgh at a fundraiser for Parkinson’s in the Grosvenor Hotel (this is a punchy excerpt from the Gibcress File, an occasional series).
Alabama-born Earnie, a gentle man as I discovered, told me then that he’d been born again, in 1986. ‘‘I’m now a knockout evangelist for the Lord.”
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Hide AdWhat made this hallelujah evening even more memorable was that I was sat between Shavers and former world flyweight champ, Motherwell-based Walter McGowan.
They just don’t breed boxers – men as a species – like them any more. Still got the wreath.
Life’s a beach
You mean to tell me they don’t like our beaches? What’s wrong with them? Evidently foreigners are not at all for bucket-and-spading on Britain’s beaches. Our seaside resorts have no attraction for visitors from abroad. So says VisitBritain’s boss.
They just don’t know what they’re missing. Lacking in their lives, the unrivalled delights of Portobello sands. A postcard from Porty must be one of life’s pleasures.
Afterwords . .
. . .How do you stop a French army on horseback? Turn off the carousel.
It’s a joke, it’s a joke! I love the French, I really do. I eat French fries every other day.