Gary O'Donoghue
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1,144 appearances
20 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 7 Sep
Gary O'Donoghue’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I remember her telling me there was a sort of policeman she slightly fancied a bit more than him.
But they ended up together.
I think he had an incredible sense of humour, my father.
And he was always larking around.
And I think that captured her heart eventually.
In his teenage years, he was a pretty accomplished footballer and played for various teams around the South East, I think into his 20s.
Well, he had some trials at some quite big teams like Watford and Chelsea and places like that, but he ended up playing in a non-league kind of...
Eastbourne and I think Hastings and Whitstable and places like that.
He was a midfielder and his great talent was that he could kick equally well with both feet, which many Premier League footballers nowadays can't do.
Who knows?
And he never showed any resentment or anything.
And eventually he became a cab driver.
But he did used to take me to Tottenham from when I was very little, mainly because a lot of his mates, who were also cab drivers, were tickets outs at Spurs at the weekend.
And so we could get tickets pretty easily and they'd keep some back for us.
But the first game he took me to, the old White Hart Lane, was against the Arsenal and we got walloped 5-0.
But he knew the assistant manager, who was also a former cab driver, who got us down to the dressing room afterwards.
I mean, I think I was probably seven or eight at the time, maybe a little older, but...
I got to meet some of the players and stuff like that, which was it was lovely.
I remember distinctly one of them patting me on the head and saying, sorry, we lost your son.
They were very tolerant.
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