Brilliant Billy Bonds Player and Gentleman

by Terry Boyce
(Richmond-Surrey)

How any Premiership teams would love a Billy Bonds in their team, a great footballer with loads of passion and effort. He was idolised by my son (who I called Bonzo when in his West Ham kit)and I, living many miles from Upton Park in the west country.

I actually met the great man when I went to see Miss Saigon in London and though I am 3 yrs older than him I must have come across as a blubbering schoolboy as I nervously introduced myself, but, though he was with his family, he smilingly gave me a couple minutes of his time.

What a gentleman! (Off the pitch!)