Sean Connery and Nobby Stiles
Posted in Edinburgh, Events dear boy. Events at 12:00 on 1 November 2020
The deaths of Sean Connery and Nobby Stiles were reported in the past two days.
Connery needs no introduction being one of the best known actors of the late twentieth century. A child of Edinburgh and a proud Scot. And the first screen James Bond, a part which became the juggernaut it now is due in large measure to his defining of it.
Nobby was a no less proud Englishman I’m sure, the latest in that select band of his countrymen to win a football World Cup to leave the wider pitch. He was what would nowadays be called a holding midfield player but in his time was more often called a hardman. As an oppposing player you certainly didn’t want him to be coming near you when you had the ball. His cavorting on the pitch after that World Cup win, waving the trophy above his head, is one of that occasion’s iconic moments.
Thomas Sean Connery: 25/8/1930 – 31/10/2020, Norbert Peter Stiles: 18/5/1942 – 30/10/2020. So it goes.