Real Name

Ken Emerson (but then what’s real? Pete Sake can be pretty real, you know!)

Location

Walton on Thames

Occupation

Senior IT Executive

Favourite: Movie(s)

Don’t have time to watch movies (do you mean films? – but hey! I don’t watch them either)

TV Programme(s)

Only watch Rugby, or use it as wallpaper when I’m doing the ironing.

Book(s)

“The Gibson Super 400” by T.A.Van Hose

“Building the Happiness-Centred Business” – Dr. Paddi Lund  (Woodentop’s motivational guru)

Music

Once a rocker, always a rocker – oh and skiffle, trad jazz, country, jazz guitar, Elgar, Paganini and opera. But then the greatest song ever written is American Pie (and I know where I was on 3^rd Feb 1959).

Radio Station(s)

Five Live, 1035 Mean Country

Food(s)

 Yes, often. Italian, French, English, definitely not Indian!

Drinks(s)

Rarely and then only in moderation. Had my first ever Guinness at Stanstead  at 10:30am on my way to Dublin last year. Drinking as much as I can now to catch up – not so much to overcome a wasted yoof as a wasted middle age! And real ale, good wines..

Place(s) to visit

Grand Canyon

How long supporting LI?

Could have been seen on the bank at Sunbury in the early nineties and at all the big games since.

Best ever LI game (Excluding 2002 cup final)

Brizzle, this year, What a result! And anyway, at my age the memory is going………….

Favourite LI experience off pitch (Excluding 2002 cup final)

Difficult – Toulouse was great, but so was my first ever trip to Ireland on the pre-season tour to Dublin last year.

How did you start supporting LI?

It was my local club. I sometimes think that every time it realises I’m a supporter, it moves further away – pah!  Why else Sunbury to the Stoop to Reading?

What are your non-rugby pastimes?

Collecting vintage/old/new – OK, any! guitars – hence my choice of books. I now have 15 (as at 6^th June) – likely to be more before the start of next season.

I love posing in my 1960 MGA and am rebuilding my rare V8 engined MGBGT.

Any Irish connection?

No. But one of my three brothers is now married to a charming, wonderful Irish lady. Does that count?

Most likely to say?

“I don’t believe it!”

Least likely to say?

“Turn the music up – I really didn’t want to have a conversation.” (In my day 8 watts was too much).

“I’d like to trade one of my guitars for that”

Tell us something about you we don't know.

I really was your age once.