Their paths soon crossed those of two lads from Barnet, graphics student Graham Smith and history student Robert Elms, plus a tall obsessive Welshman, Chris Sullivan, a northern soul dance fiend, whose mantra was "one look lasts a day".
If you look at it in slow motion, the lad's crossed the ball and as he has followed through, he's hit Jamal's leg".
The lad crosses it from the angle and we have got to do better to stop the cross and be brighter and expect runs in the box".
You'd have that standard bio anywhere in the UK, but the lads would look like Quasimodo crossed with a potato, posing in a rugby kit.
The line had been crossed and we all agreed that the two lads responsible had to be taken back to prison.
"I know it's that old cliche, but it's the lads who cross the white line who have got to do much, much better.
"The lads are really hungry to step up to the mark and do that, so fingers crossed, we can do that".
High notes that, although the bridge is strong, it will break when "Muspell's lads" attempt to cross it, and their horses will have to make do with swimming over "great rivers".
In my eyes, the lad is someone who spots a grandma crossing the road with heavy shopping, someone with manners, who is polite, who can be a hero".
Fellow veteran Les Reeves said the commemorations were in honour of "the lads that never saw the White Cliffs [of Dover]" after crossing the Channel for the invasion.
