|
Question |
Answer |
|
Real Name |
Leon |
|
Locatiom |
Moscow, Russian Federation – almost exactly a 3,000km drive from the Gardens
Far Northern Highlands when in the UK – just about as far from Franklin’s as it’s possible to be and to still be on the same island. |
|
Occupation |
Editor, journalist, satirist, propagandist
|
|
Favourite |
|
|
Movie(s)? |
Mulholland Drive, Funny Games (Haneke) |
|
TV Programme(s)? |
Brasseye, but I haven’t owned a TV for years. |
|
Books? |
Finnegans Wake – Joyce,
Atomised – Houellebecq,
No Truce With the Furies – RS Thomas,
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Wittgenstein |
|
Music? |
Einstürzende Neubauten, Explosions in the Sky, Joy Division, Arvo Pärt, A Silver Mt. Zion.
|
|
Radio Station(s)? |
|
|
Foods? |
A good curry, full English breakfast and various other things you can’t find over here, including good cheese. The strongest, most mature cheese you can get in Russia is Edam. |
|
Drinks? |
Guinness, Highland Malts, Absinthe |
|
Places to visit? |
Bhutan, Pyongyang, Turkmenistan, the Artic Circle. |
|
First Ever Saints Match? |
Versus Bedford c.1992 |
|
Best ever Saints Match (excuding 2000 HC Final)? |
The 58-pointers against Gloucester and Saracens. The 2000 HC semi-final against Llanelli. |
|
Favourite Saints experience off pitch? |
Playing and captaining against Canada.
|
|
What are your non-rugby pastimes? |
Satire, ice hockey, playing guitar, being a bitter and alienated misanthrope. |
|
Most likely to say? |
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a great, great man. |
|
Least Likely to say? |
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a ******* ****** ****. |
|
In lessthan 20 words, what would you do if you won the lottery? |
I will erect fully-operational models of Perilaus’ bronze bull on every street corner. Stuart Barnes to be among the first inside… |
|
If you are not from Northampton, why Saints? |
I had the pleasure of growing up in the Rose of the Shires.
|
Digg
Delicious
Facebook
Reddit
Stumbleupon
