Danny Baker read my email out on air..................

May not mean much to you, you may not even know who Danny Baker is.If you do, I can gauruntee you will, like Marmite, either love him of hate him!Personally I think he is one of the best broadcasters and raconteurs EVER!

Anyway..................I was driving into work today, listening to my Ipod which contained my weekly Danny Baker fix via the Podcast of his saturday morning 5 live show. this show is loosely based on sport, but is aimed at getting a hard core listener base to call in and contribute on an seemingly endless set of topics, ranging from stories of particular prowess, anecdotes of personal achievements, or giving a reason why your teams ground should not be demolished by the totalitarian government that will one day be headed by Danny Baker.

He also allows listerners to "own" things, like a specific minute of the 90 minutes of a football match, or a particular team, drawn from hist waste paper bin.

This is a format that Danny has used for the whole of his carreer on local and national radio.

Anyway............I was driving along, just having reached the outskirts of telford, when he recalled a story from the previous week about a young man called Paul, who had some how become, at the age of 26,  the youngest International Football Manager in the World. the team was, however, Pohnpei, a small island in Micronesia in the Pacific. (Yes it does exist) It transpires that the Island has one pitch which is generally covered in Toads.

As Danny was replaying the story, I thought to my self, "why is he repeating this story", when he suddenly started to talk about receiving an e-mail from another Paul.

I still didn't think anytthing of it until he continued, "Another Paul who wants to twin his beloved Coventry City with Pohnpei"

It was the email I had hurridley sent in after listening to the previous weeks show!

Pohnpei were trying to gain FIFA recognition so they could enter the World Cup. I suggested that they should be twinned as Coventry had as much chance of returning to the Premiership as Pohnpei had of playing in the World Cup qualifiers, let alone the finals.

I was ecstatic, sad I know, but for the non-believers of the world created by the legend that is Danny Baker, I was, again, part of his gang.

I had twinned my team, as well as previous achievements, such as "owning" the old Texan Bar, I owned it, no one can ever own that piece of confectionery ever again.

On previous shows I had regailed a number of stories that he broadcast in his inimitable style. It was like having a book published. Trust me it really was.   

There are many otther missives that have been ognored, or maybe read and cast aside, but they can be resurrected when the time or the topic crops up again and they will!

In fact I have decided to help Danny by documenting ALL of my tales, famous people, interesting anecdotes about characters and events I have witnessed, ready for him to choose at his leisure when he is short of tales, although I don't think he will!

So another Blog is being worked on.........."Danny Baker Read My Email On the Radio.Blog is coming to an internet site near you.

Check him out. It will be as easy as choosing whether you like Marmite or not.