Giovanni Van Bronkhorst
This time, the Coronets took the initiative - it's pretty difficult to make friends with prermiership footballers you know. On 25 October 2001, Arsenal's Dutch left midfielder was going to have a great WEB CHAT on ITV-football.co.uk. This seemed to me a good opportunity, so I sent him a question, and amazingly, it was the first one that they asked him.
Somewhat to my surprise, I'm interested - tell me more...
Gio, people often mock footballer's music taste, so I wondered who you preferred - Craig David or Simply Red?
And what on earth did Giovanni reply?
Craig David! like Maxwell, easy listening music mainly
And why would anyone mock that?
What? You don't believe me? Check out a screengrab! Or, if you prefer, check out the full transcript from itv-football.co.uk! Or you might like to see a picture of Giovanni Van Bronkhorst playing snooker.
I also asked him another question about pies: "Gio, I am a big fan of pies. Was the reason you were late for this webchat because you were eating a pie? I hope so. " However, they didn't ask that one.
Gio has his own website on Icons DOT COM. Do you know - he seems like a really nice fella.
P 31/10/01
Hmmm.