Richie Firth
By the end of the 80s, Richie Firth had secured the position of school goalkeeper as his own and was a regular at Highbury watching his beloved Arsenal under George Graham. With a soundtrack of Haircut 100 and Go West playing in the car trip from Eastbourne to London each week, which way was his life to go?
Sadly a lack of height and any dicernable skill meant that George Graham or Arsene Wenger were ever going to call upon the lads services and so it was playing songs instead. Richie is the Executive Producer of The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show, which you can hear on Absolute 80s every weekday morning.
Richie spends his weekends encouraging his four year old son Charlie to stick at football so he doesn't have to follow the same weary path as his Dad. Daughter Caitlin at seven is still young enough to be impressed by her old man but this can only last for so much longer...