'Not really.' The young Cole was always focused on being a professional and chose early nights when his brother would be 'out in nightclubs'.' He played for Puma in the east London leagues where a host of England internationals including John Terry, Ledley King and Lee Bowyer once hoofed a ball.
In a video created by Dan Woodward, Clint Cannon and Nam Cu, young Cole Cowlin takes college men to task for not treating women better -- "I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed," he tells them -- and explains how to act like "the George Clooney-est guy out there".
Leicester: Murphy; Hamilton, Tuilagi, Allen, Goneva; Flood, Harrison; Mulipola, T. Youngs, Cole; Kitchener, Parling; Mafi, Salvi, Waldrom.
Leicester Tigers: Tait; Morris, Goneva, Bowden, Thompstone; Williams, B Youngs; Ayerza, T Youngs, Cole; Deacon (capt), Slater Gibsonn, Salvi, Waldrom.
When we discuss other 1980s gay pop stars and I mention Boy George chaining up and beating a young man, Coles replies: "We've all done terrible things".
There are echoes of the wily young Nat Cole in Diana Krall's music.
Hefner was twelve years younger than Cole, and yet, he told me, "My heroes were now working for me — but as Cole's editor, of course, I was the father figure".
Leicester Hamilton; Agulla (Smith, 55), M Tuilagi, Twelvetrees, A Tuilagi; Flood, Youngs; Stankovich (Cole, 55), Hawkins Chuterr, 57), Castrogiovanni, Mafi (Crane, 63; Staunton, 70), Skivington, Croft (capt), Woods (Newby, 57), Waldrom.
Leicester Tigers N Morriss (O Williams 64); S Hamilton (N Briggs 42-47, D Bowden 50), V Goneva, A Allen (capt), A Thompstone; R Lamb, D Mele; L Mulipola, T Youngs, D Cole, E Slater, S de Chaves, S Mafi (B Stankovich 31-40, T Waldrom 63), J Salvi, J Crane (J Gibson 73).
Leicester: N Morris (O Williams 64); S Hamilton (N Briggs 42-47, D Bowden 50), V Goneva, A Allen (capt), A Thompstone; R Lamb, D Mele; L Mulipola, T Youngs, D Cole, E Slater, S De Chaves, S Mafi (B Stankovich 31-40, T Waldrom 63), J Salvi, J Crane (J Gibson 73).
