Thanks CarolC,

I've always admired Ali and one of my most memorable experiences was seeing him in a Newcastle shopping centre a good few years ago, he was doing a 'talk-in' at the time, I think he was having his marriage blessed at South Shields. The man has the ability to make the hairs on the back of your head stand up truly one of the 'Greats' of my lifetime and I hope his words were of some comfort to all.

Even so, "what have the Romans ever done for us ?" Apart from Hadrians Wall, that is ?

regardez vous Ritchie.