Did you know he makes a cameo appearance in the British version of
Fever Pitch - when Colin Firth's school team is giving another team a good hiding, he's the opposition coach who looks pleadingly at Firth to take it easy on them.
That clip is superb - his fatalism and refusal to believe even after they score the first goal is spot-on footie fan behaviour.
By the way, it's coming up to the twentieth anniversary of
that Liverpool v Arsenal game (most dramatic end to the season ever!), so it's been getting quite a bit of coverage.
Jason Cowley has written a book about it, in the context of what else was going on in English footie at the time - there's an extract
here