Warren Mitchell AKA Alf Garnett has passed away aged 89.
http://rtlec.co.uk/alf-garnett-actor-wa ... s-aged-89/
West Ham Lose a Loyal Supporter
West Ham Lose a Loyal Supporter
Championship Stoke City 3 - 0 Plymouth Argyle
Points 48; Position 20
Points 48; Position 20
Re: West Ham Lose a Loyal Supporter
That's sad news, but he had a fine and varied long career.
Lot's of Alf's still about.
Lot's of Alf's still about.
Talk is cheap
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Political correctness was alive and well even in those days and there was a school of thought that Alf Garnett should have been banned from tv. They never seemed to get that his bigotry showed him and his ilk to be outdated dinosaurs who had to be ridiculed.
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Funny enough he supported a better team than WH :-)
Obituary: Warren Mitchell
The irony of a left-wing, Jewish, Spurs supporter playing a Conservative-voting West Ham fan was not lost on Mitchell, although he became concerned that some of his audience failed to recognise the show as satire.
He recalled an exchange with a fellow Tottenham fan who had come up to congratulate him on "having a go" at immigrants. "Actually," Mitchell tersely replied, "we're having a go at idiots like you."
Mitchell was once asked for his idea of perfect happiness. "Play three sets of tennis, and win of course, take the family for a sail in the afternoon, and watch Spurs beat Arsenal 6-0 in the evening."
Obituary: Warren Mitchell
The irony of a left-wing, Jewish, Spurs supporter playing a Conservative-voting West Ham fan was not lost on Mitchell, although he became concerned that some of his audience failed to recognise the show as satire.
He recalled an exchange with a fellow Tottenham fan who had come up to congratulate him on "having a go" at immigrants. "Actually," Mitchell tersely replied, "we're having a go at idiots like you."
Mitchell was once asked for his idea of perfect happiness. "Play three sets of tennis, and win of course, take the family for a sail in the afternoon, and watch Spurs beat Arsenal 6-0 in the evening."
Diplomacy is the ability to tell a man to go to hell so that he looks forward to making the trip