What are Barrie Pierpoint and Shane McGowan doing in the same story?

Great research. Great info.

To be honest I thought the writing a little forced and got slightly confused with the different stories. Though that’s probably my daft head.

Thanks for sharing
 
tudor_fox said:
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Well, you're kind enough to ask, so here we go:


Got on a lucky one
Came in eighteen to one
I've got a feeling
This year's for me and you
So happy Christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true.

It's December 1997, and as Shane's song was climbing the charts for the first time, here in Leicester, another Irishman was full of the same optimism.

Three weeks before Christmas, Leicester City drew 0-0 at home to Middlebsrough, a result that left us 15th in Division Two, with just 23 points from 21 games. Manager Bryan Hamilton's team were in the gutter, but he was still looking at the stars. This is what he told Bill Anderson after the game:

We can still get promotion.
If we put a run together we can still catch up.
I saw enough positive signs to be optimistic.

Sadly, Terry Shipman, playing the Kirsty MacColl role, decided to pour cold water all over Hamilton's delusions. On the Thursday after that Boro game, the Leicester chairman called him and asked if they could sit down and have a chat about the club's plight.

The following day the news broke; Hamilton had been sacked.


It was Chrismas Eve, babe...

Two weeks later, on December 24th, Terry Shipman stood in front of the Filbert Street Christmas tree with the new man:

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