Newport Pagnell Town are currently fifth in United Counties League Premier Division South external-link , while Dorset-based opponents Hamworthy come from the top flight of the Wessex Football League. However, they had another chance to make their mark on screen as one of the acts throughout all five original series of The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club (1974-77). Like Eric and Ernie, their performances were pitched perfectly for weekend TV audiences looking for family entertainment. Already singing in local clubs under the name Stevie Rhythm, he invited his colleague to join him and they performed first as the Sherrell Brothers, then the Harper Brothers.

Bobby Ball was born Robert Harper in Oldham, Lancashire (now Greater Manchester), to May (nee Savage), a cotton mill worker, and Bob Harper, who worked in a rubber factory.They fulfilled the prophecy made by Eric Morecambe just before his death that Cannon and Ball would inherit Morecambe and Wise’s crown by becoming television’s most popular comedy double act of the 1980s. He is survived by Yvonne, their daughter, Joanne, and the two sons, Robert and Darren, of his first marriage.

Of the other women, he said: “My pride wouldn’t allow me to see that it wasn’t anything to do with me as a person. They have already proved they do not lack nerve, winning on penalties against both Leighton Town and Buckland Athletic on their way to the last four. When the Newton Abbot (Buckland Athletic) game ended in penalties, their mayor kindly wrote to me afterwards and in his letter he said, 'I wasn't sure your heart was going to make it through the penalty shoot-out'," said mayor Day. Although they continued with their stage act when TV work began to dry up in the 1990s, Ball occasionally popped up in small guest roles in dramas such as Heartbeat (2005-06) and Casualty (2012).His first marriage, to Joan Lynn in 1964, ended in divorce, while his second marriage, to Yvonne Nugent in 1974, survived his drinking and infidelities. They have fought their way through six rounds since to reach the last four, with larger and larger numbers joining their Green Army along the way. They were launched on their television career by Michael Grade when he was director of programmes at the ITV company LWT. Bobby Ball, who has died after testing positive for coronavirus aged 76, was the irresponsible but anxious to please half of the comedy duo Cannon and Ball, famous for twanging his braces alongside the serious Tommy Cannon.

It's every football player, every coach, every team's dream in this country to achieve that and we're no different. After two years, they went professional, changing their names to Cannon and Ball – Cannon after the American singer Freddy Cannon and Ball as the obvious name for a sidekick. Later in the run, they introduced a sitcom element to the show, which depicted the pair living together in a well-appointed London flat while performing away from their homes in the north of England. Their big break came with a TV appearance on the talent show Opportunity Knocks in 1968 – but they came last.

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