Day 13: 'Christmas is now drawing near at Hand' - Steve Winwood
It's the Sunday Carol again, and this has a special meaning for me as the young soprano Blagg - with little ruffle and angelic face (!?) - sung this at a Christmas Concert way back when Men when Men and Women were grateful.
It's a lovely toon and I've always liked Steve, and his voice gives this a gravitas the Carol deserves. It's also very appropriate to the Godless bunch that hang around the Forums on ESPN.
'So proud and lofty do some people go / Dressing themselves like players in the show / They patch and paint and dress with idle stuff / As if God had not made them fine enough / Even little Children learn to curse and swear / And can't recite one word of Godly prayer'
Born at an early age a mere defenders' spit from the Boleyn ground, Billy Blagg has seen every West Ham game from 1898 onwards. Blagg was mentioned by Kenneth Wolstenholme in 1966 as one of the people on the pitch during the famous Hammers win over West Germany that lifted the World Cup and he returned to the pitch again for the 1975 FA Cup Final but stayed on the terrace for 1980 FA Cup victory. Blagg, 26, now lives with his eighth wife and innumerable children in a small semi-detached with chintz curtains in Dagenham, Essex and still attends every Hammers match and training session.
Born at an early age a mere defenders' spit from the Boleyn ground, Billy Blagg has seen every West Ham game from 1898 onwards. Blagg was mentioned by Kenneth Wolstenholme in 1966 as one of the people on the pitch during the famous Hammers win over West Germany that lifted the World Cup and he returned to the pitch again for the 1975 FA Cup Final but stayed on the terrace for 1980 FA Cup victory. Blagg, 26, now lives with his eighth wife and innumerable children in a small semi-detached with chintz curtains in Dagenham, Essex and still attends every Hammers match and training session.
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