Listening to the radio this morning I did a double take when I heard the reporter say "Sir Paul Collins of Martinborough...". What the fuck!
I did a google search and yes, it's true. It happened in 2015 when I was overseas so I missed this.
Richard and I went to college with Paul Collins. He was in the P classes with me and was a mate of Danny Cotterall.
Paul wasn't an outstanding student but had the good commercial sense to study Accountancy at university. We played in the same rugby team - Athletic- when we were at uni and I remember asking him why he was wasting his time doing accountancy when there were so many other interesting degree courses to take and I seemed to take most of them. He went on to become a multi-millionaire and I never completed a degree. Such is life.
I don't have anything personal against Paul except for - getting on to my high horse Richard - he joined Brierley's and became one of the unscrupulous corporate raiders in the 1980s who made huge amounts of money and left behind human wreckage. Being of a socialist leaning I found this to be reprehensible.
I'm not the only one to feel this way. Have a read of this:
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We worked together at the Wellington gas co when we were secondary school students.
That's right.i remember now. Was Wayne Chelman there too?
I'm proud to claim you as a friend Richard and that you didn't give up your soul to Mammon ( as Robert or his friends might say)
I knew a guy who played in Mammal the band.
Danny Cotteral was there.
Cotterall I think.
I think you're drifting into the realms of fantasy there Jones.
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