 If anyone has got a spare 160 Euros could they please send it to Ray Winstone.
I bumped into the Sexy Beast actor before the Sweden game the other day and he was telling me he was a bit short. Dressed in a vintage West Ham United shirt the big man was holed up in the exclusive Dom Hotel overlooking the fan park in front of the cathedral in Cologne.
With beer in hand he was very much looking forward to thrashing the Swedes. (And he’ll still be looking forward to it after we defended like turnips).
But his dash down to the home of German perfume had been rudely interrupted by the host nation’s equivalent of the Police patrol Chips. It turns out Mr Winstone had been doing several hundred kilometres an hour in a bid to soak up as much of the atmos (and local lager) as poss before the big kick off.
Unfortunately it turned out that he’d broken the speed limit in the process. Like me, Ray had been under the impression that there wasn’t a speed limit on the Autobahn. But it would seem that around built up areas and junctions there are variable ones and it was through one of these that he’d passed to incur the fine.
Had he spoken enough English to have done so, I’m sure another lunch time guest at the Dom Hotel would have been able to help Mr Winstone out.
You see Chelsea supremo Roman Abramovich happened to wander in and sit at the next table. In between sipping a mineral water and nibbling on a Caesar salad (not as low fat as you’d expect with all that dressing Roman) he was all too accommodating with the autograph hunters and picture takers.
Not unlike Skinner and Baddiel the other day he showed the patience of a saint.
Nothing was too much trouble. Nothing that is, until he was asked to have a few words with a Chelsea fan’s mate after having a mobile phone thrust in his face.
At this point his low-key security men stepped in and said Mr Abramovich’s English wasn’t quite up for it, no offence, but he was quite happy to pose for a pic. It was at that point that I thought it would be too much hassle to ask for a loan for my new mate Ray…
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