My abiding memory of Hugh McilVanney is showing him

[Monty92]

the Anfield 89 book when I met him in about 2006. I didn’t think it was possible for a human to look quite so uninterested :-(

[redgunamo]

the Anfield 89 book when I met him in about 2006. I didn’t think it was possible for a human to look quite so uninterested :-(

He wasn't a human, M. He was a writer.

[IUFG]

He was a writer.

Worse than that, r, he was a journo.

[Burney]

the Anfield 89 book when I met him in about 2006. I didn’t think it was possible for a human to look quite so uninterested :-(

I never really understood his exalted status. :shrug:

[barrybueno]

Worse than that, r, he was a journo.

Christ, what an epic ****

[Alberto Balsam Rodriguez]

I didn’t think it was possible for a human to look quite so uninterested :-(

Token, he was meeting you, post.

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

Does pestering somebody really count as meeting them? Did you 'meet' old bug eyes when you jumped out of the bushes and ambushed him for the selfie? ( meant for Monty )

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

I never really understood his exalted status. :shrug:

He was a journalist writing for national newspapers b. You are unfailingly rancorous to anyone higher up the writer's food chain than you :-)

(didn't know he existed til Monty's post )

[Alberto Balsam Rodriguez]

Does pestering somebody really count as meeting them? Did you 'meet' old bug eyes when you jumped out of the bushes and ambushed him for the selfie? ( meant for Monty )


To be fair to old Monty.... if he is jumping out of the bushes, he will eventually be signing a register.

[Monty92]

No, it was when I was editing a book about Pele for a boutique publishing house in Camden. Mcilvanney was one of the book’s contributors and would sometimes pop into our office.





Does pestering somebody really count as meeting them? Did you 'meet' old bug eyes when you jumped out of the bushes and ambushed him for the selfie? ( meant for Monty )