Football win running feat
A FOOTBALL fan has pledged to run a marathon for every match Wigan Athletic win this season.
Chris Devine, 33, will complete all the 26.2-mile runs in the month of June.
The Latics managed 13 wins last season but have only won five this time out.
Chris is fundraising for Wigan-based gene disorder charity Joseph’s Goal.
He said: “I wouldn’t want them only to win five or six games. But I could do without them getting past 12 or 13 if I’m honest.”
From the left, Lucille, Trixie, Nurse Crane and Valerie
Daniels as Jimmy in Quadrophenia
Daniels was 21 when he played Cockney teenager Jimmy Cooper, who took amphetamines and headed out of London on his scooter to scrap with Rockers in Brighton.
Now 61, Daniels will appear in BBC1’s hit Sunday-night drama next weekend as George, a man who refuses to leave his East End home during the slum clearances despite it being marked for demolition.
It falls to Nonnatus House handyman Fred, played by Cliff Parisi, 59, to coax him out.
COUGH
George’s hacking cough is what first alerts Fred to George’s presence inside the condemned building.
And when Fred goes to investigate, helped by Reggie (Daniel Laurie), he finds George is every bit as angry and headstrong as Jimmy was in the film which first put Daniels on the map and led to his collaboration with Blur on their 1994 hit, Parklife.
A source said: “Fred is met with some hostility as George just wants to be left alone. But that all changes when Fred returns to check on George with Reggie in tow, and the pair bond over the pigeons.”
■ Call the Midwife, Sunday, January 26, BBC One, 8pm.