They would forget him in a heartbeat if his regular-season numbers could magically be replaced.
Undoubtedly Bell is now behind Owais Shah (remember him?) and Ravi Bopara (how can we forget him?) in the one-day pecking order.
They still haven't forgotten him in Carpi, and four years ago, on the centenary of his most famous moment, a giant statue was unveiled in the town centre.
Now, even as he jets about the world for NATO, Mr Solana makes sure that nobody forgets him in the close-knit, inward-looking world of Spanish Socialist politics.
It's unlikely Bossie's forgotten him in the intervening years – and more likely that he and the rest of the Trump campaign are just waiting for the right moment to bring him up again.
Who could forget him at James Baldwin's memorial service at St. John the Divine, where he said Baldwin was "God's black revolutionary mouth," and who could forget him in Warren Beatty's underrated 1998 film, "Bulworth," as an oracle who sees the truth through his own black revolutionary mouth?
I shall never forget him in this time of strain and stress".
He conveyed his generosity with a broad smile, without failing to notice that the victim had indeed forgotten him in the 30 years that had passed since they had seen each other. .
But aside from the odd moment of slapstick (who can forget him falling in the canal he was helping to clean?) I suspect most Borisisms are more canny than careless.
On the 150th anniversary of d'Annunzio's birth, the British cultural historian Lucy Hughes-Hallett wants to reintroduce him to an English-speaking world that has largely forgotten him, and in "Gabriele d'Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War," she argues that he merits attention not only as a literary figure but also as a major political one.
