I don't know if anyone else read the article about GT in The Athletic, but I thought it didn't really capture the full majesty of the man and his works.
Tamplin lured former Premier League footballers to play for him in the seventh tier of English football – and that was just the start...
theathletic.com
An excerpt:
"This was a man who lived in a £10million house in the Essex village of Abridge — later named ‘Bliss Heights’ after his wife — with a collection of sports cars out the front, and he was not shy about making his mark on Billericay, either.
Craig Edwards, the club’s manager for the previous seven years, quit within three months, citing too much interference from Tamplin, and the owner took his place in the dugout.
In February 2017, former Premier League players Paul Konchesky and Jamie O’Hara joined Billericay, the latter following a stint on TV’s Celebrity Big Brother reality show alongside the likes of Bianca Gascoigne, daughter of former England footballer Paul, and Jedward, identical-twin Irish singers with distinctive haircuts who appeared on The X Factor in 2009.
“I was meant to be going to Las Vegas that week,” O’Hara told UK newspaper The Independent, “but Glenn said, ‘I want you to play on Saturday, we’ve got a massive game (against Dulwich Hamlet), so cancel your holiday because I need you in the team’. I wanted to show them that commitment and I wanted to be involved.”"
A description of the famous Muriel is included, but not a photo, which seems a terrible oversight. I hadn't realised that his house is in Abridge. Not really Essex, more Chigwell adjacent. A very good golf shot distance from Alan Sugar's pile.