TV legends Saint and Greavsie are back on the ball for final fling

30 May 2009 00:19
The preconception of a rendezvous with Saint and Greavsie is of an encounter with the Stadler and Waldorf of football - two old men whose charm is in their quirkiness; figures of fun rather than serious commentators on the national game. Not a bit of it. Their combined ages may be 140 - 141 next weekend when Ian St John will be 72 - yet age has not wearied their appeal nor the sharpness of their observations. When the talk turns to football brotherhood, from the richness of the dressing-room banter when they were players to the bond which ties together former teammates, Saint offers up this gem: 'What if all the foreign players in the Premier League go home after their careers, which most them will do, back to their own country?

Source: Daily_Mail