TALE OF TWO JIMMIES DONE GOOD

reason I still can’t fathom – but they’ve got a few quid.

Soccer AM star Bullard (left) never was a world-stage splash but shone bright, had some juicy contracts and paid his taxes. He was no Gareth Bale obviously. Bale is far away in a league of his own as Britain’s wealthiest footballer according to the 2019 Sunday Times Rich List.

Jordan Henderson, Harry Maguire, Troy Deeney and Mark

Noble – the Prem skippers driving the #Playerstogether push that put millions into the NHS this week – will be second division.

But even Bale was still worth less than Jacob Rees-mogg based on last year’s estimate by Spear’s, the ‘wealth management’ bible.

And that was before the Tory hero spotted any juicy ‘pandemic investment opportunities’.

Gareth is skint compared to club owners like Roman Abramovich or

in a touring circus, kit man and mascot for Stoke City and a beloved part of the Keele community for more than 50 years – despite being neither a student nor an employee at the university. At a number of points in the film you do wonder whether the story is taking the mickey out of the audience as it is so unlikely, bordering on the unbelievable. He has sipped sherry with Prince Edward, had dinner at the House of Commons, played the clown in a circus and played football for Stoke City (in a friendly against Aston Villa). He has waved to crowds from the official launch at the Boat Race and from the Lord Mayor’s limousine on a parade through Newcastle-underlyme. He is also manager, coach, kit man and captain of the Neil Baldwin

Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the Brexiteer chemicals giant, who was rated as worth nearly 200 Bales.

A bit like most top footballers, Sir Jim started life with not very much and made himself very rich.

Last year he was reported to be moving to Monaco, saving about 42 Bales per annum in UK tax.

In old money that’s the annual wages for about 160,000 nurses.

So a ‘back of the net’ moment for him, if not for the rest of us.

Football Club – past presidents include Kevin Keegan and Gary Lineker – and has won Player of the Year every season.

Toby Jones is brilliant as Nello, who also appears, as does Lineker and the man who gave him the job as kit man, Lou Macari.

Says former Stoke boss Macari: “He was the best signing I ever made.”

(Youtube) Too many nuggets of football gold to mention. How did Derby win the title playing on pure mud?

How did Johnny Giles not get sent off for punching Kevin Keegan in the face in front of the referee? Why did Keegan then get sent off? How much did Alan Gilzean get paid for his guide to foreigners and their dirty tricks in this very newspaper?

A must-watch for football fans of any age.