A Different View with Dave O’Connell

There’s a well-worn story about former Liverpool and Ireland footballer Jason McAteer when he was out one night for a meal in a pizza restaurant.

The background to this is that McAteer was famously known as Trigger after the simple character in Only Fools and Horses; in other words, by any measure he wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer.

But in fairness he also boasts the ability to laugh at himself and he tells the pizza story all the time, providing a high point at, ironically, his after-dinner shows.

So the story was that he ordered a pizza even though he wasn’t starving.

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