Sportsmans Dinner Speakers Confirmed
Willie a Lawyer and former UEFA referee is an accomplished wit, raconteur and established after dinner speaker and has entertained us before; Paulo di Canio of Celtic, once asked him during a game, if he ''wanted to be manager of Rangers?'' and Dick Advocaat of Rangers once accused him, during a game, of being ''a Celtic supporter''. These comments tend to suggest that he was fairly impartial.
George was arguably one of Britain’s greatest ever sprinters but outside the professional circuit was little known. In 1981 at the age of thirty four, he won the richest professional race in the world called 'The Stawell Gift' carrying a first prize of 12,000 Australian dollars together with around 40,000 dollars from the bookmakers.
His marvelous collection of anecdotes covers a wide range, not merely confined to his unique and highly successful sporting career.
This should be another great night so book early.