Hannah, additionally recognized for his roles in 4 Weddings and a Funeral, Sliding Doorways and The Mummy, has been an Arsenal fan since he moved to London from Scotland greater than 40 years in the past.
As a boy rising up in East Kilbride he had hopes of turning into a footballer lengthy earlier than realising his performing aspirations.
Lots of his childhood pals, together with Rangers legend Ally McCoist, would go on to forge skilled careers.
“I might like to check myself to Bukayo Saka,” Hannah defined when describing what sort of participant he was. “I performed on the correct wing and I used to be fairly small and quick and I scored a whole lot of of targets.
“My dream was to be a footballer, and it was all I ever thought of. I performed or educated on a regular basis – however, like many desires, it did not come true.
“As I obtained a bit greater I form of segued again into midfield however after I found girls and beer then I form of stopped enjoying.
“As soon as I went to drama college I obtained very centered on that after which with transferring to London and dealing away, round in all probability 20 years handed with out me kicking a ball.
“However then in 2013 I did a movie known as Capturing for Socrates, the place I performed Northern Eire supervisor Billy Bingham on the 1986 World Cup.
“We have been down in Spain performing some filming there and had a little bit of a kickaround and I bear in mind considering ‘yeah, I’ve nonetheless obtained it you realize!’
“Not anymore although – since then I’ve snapped my ACL [anterior cruciate ligament] which has put paid to soccer and a whole lot of sport. It’s actually simply biking and operating for me now.”
Chris Sutton and John Hannah have been chatting with BBC Sport’s Chris Bevan.
The AI predictions have been generated utilizing Microsoft Copilot Chat – we merely requested the device to ‘predict this weekend’s Premier League scores’.
