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John Conteh
Former professional boxer
John was born in Liverpool in May 1951, one of TEN children. He was introduced to boxing at the age of 11 when he joined Kirkby amateur boxing club. He boxed as a schooloy and a junior with varied success.
In 1969, at the age of 18, he committed himself to senior boxing full time. The following year he won the ABA middleweight title AND the gold medal at middleweight in the Commonwealth Games held in Edinburgh. This was quickly followed by the ABA Light-Heavyweight title in 1971 in Wembley Arena. London was calling and he turned professional in 1971 with George Francis as manager, moving down from his beloved Liverpool.
He won the European Light-heavyweight title at Wembley Arena in 1973 defeating Rudiger Schmidtke and in the same year he defeated Chris Finnegan to win the British and Commonwealth titles. The following year he defeated Jorge Ahumada at Wembley to become the World Light Heavyweight Champion. He successfully defended his title three times before retiring in 1980 with a fantastic record of 34 wins and one draw from a career total of 39 flights!!
Since his retirement, John has become a highly accomplished and popular after dinner speaker. He also entered the world of acting, appearing in many plays including a six month run in the West End with the play 'Blood Brothers'. Always popular, the happy-go-lucky scouser can't believe he gets very well paid for doing something that comes very natural to him, he talks and talks, and talks!!!!
Jim’s successful defences of his title were against Texan Roberto Vasquez, Irelands Charlie Nash, Howard Davis and Sean O’Grady in 1980. Jim lost his title in a bout in Wembley Arena on June 20th 1981 when Nicaraguan Alexis Arguello won the title on a point’s decision. This fight was at the time the richest in British Boxing history. At the age of 32 Jim decided it was the right time to hang up his gloves and retired from the sport.
As well as being kept busy on the after dinner speaking
circuit Jim also very well known as the face of Sky televisions boxing
presentations and travels the world as the summariser for all the main
Championship and title bouts. Jim is also a prominent business man in
his beloved Glasgow.
Craigie Vietch
former Editor
He is certainly a man of letters, being a former East of Scotland Scrabble Champion!!!! But his main educational claim to fame is that he once shared an ink-well at school with Sean Connery, in true journalistic style he insists he taught 007 all he knows about acting and elocution!
Craigie was principal speaker when Sean was honoured with the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh, over the years Craigie has told so many stories about Connery that he is now beginning to believe them! Would a journalist lie?? Craigie has won no fewer than FOUR of the prestigious “Wits Dinner Awards” including “The Jackie Blanchflower Memorial Trophy”.
Patrice
Comedian
former professional
footballer
Andy Goram (born April 13, 1964 in Bury, Lancashire, England) is a former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He currently works for Clyde as a goalkeeping coach. He started his career with Oldham Athletic and Hibernian, but he is best remembered for playing for Rangers during the 1990s, when he earned the monicker "The Goalie". In 2001 he was voted Rangers' greatest ever goalkeeper by the Rangers fans. After his time with Rangers he played for many clubs, most notably at Motherwell and a brief loan spell at Manchester United. Goram also represented Scotland at cricket, but was banned from playing that sport after moving to Rangers.
Goram joined Oldham Athletic as a teenager and spent seven years with the English club, winning his first Scotland caps and selection for the 1986 World Cup. In 1987, he moved to Hibernian, where his father had also been a goalkeeper, for a fee of £325,000. He was a great success at Hibs and achieved the remarkable feat of scoring a goal in a Premier Division match, against Morton.
He was sold to Rangers in 1991 for £1m and went on to help the club to win six of their nine titles in a row between 1989 and 1997. He was also involved in Rangers' notable run in the European Cup in 1992-93, as they came within one point of reaching the final.
Goram was also an important player for the Scotland national team, winning 43 caps. He had a long-running rivalry with Jim Leighton for the goalkeeping position in the Scotland team. Craig Brown controversially selected Goram ahead of Leighton for Scotland's matches in Euro 96, despite the fact that Leighton had played in most of the qualifiers. Brown then selected Leighton for France 98, which prompted Goram to walk out of the squad completely.
After it was reported in the press that Goram had a mild form of schizophrenia, fans responded with a chorus of "Two Andy Gorams, there's only two Andy Gorams".This chant quickly gained popularity, and became the title of a book documenting humorous football chants.
While playing for Dumfries club Queen of the South in 2002, he won the Scottish Challenge Cup. This made Goram the first player to collect a full set of winners medals from the four senior Scottish football competitions. Goram is now an after-dinner speaker and regularly attends Rangers' fan gatherings. He has also worked as a goalkeeping coach, joining Airdrie United in March 2006 and then Clyde in February 2008.
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