The Sunday Telegraph’s rugby correspondent, Paul Ackford, was presented with a Harlequins shirt at half-time as the club recognised his retirement from the paper after 20 years. Ackford said: “It was fitting that I ended my writing career at the same place as my playing career.”
Lummee.
And I can remember when he first joined the paper too. I can even remember thinking, after the first few columns, blimey, this copper/ex-international can write, can’t he?
Tempus fugit etc.
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1 bloke in france // Feb 17, 2013 at 11:01 am
Is it just me, or are policemen retiring younger these days?
2 Peter Risdon // Feb 17, 2013 at 12:02 pm
As Uncle Fred said after meeting a school friend who had somehow become a greybeard, this sort of thing blurs my perception of myself as a young man, standing on the threshold of life.
Mind you, he’s retiring at 55. That’s barely old enough to be a hero in an action movie, nowadays.
3 JamesV // Feb 19, 2013 at 9:24 am
Shouldn’t your title have been “Doesn’t life half fly past”?
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