Tommy Bishop (born (1940-10-15) 15 October 1940 (age 72) in St. Helens, Lancashire) is an English rugby league footballer of the 1960s, and '70s, and coach of the 1970s and '80s, playing for Blackpool Borough, Barrow and St. Helens in the English Rugby Football League Championship and the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the New South Wales Rugby League competition in Australia. He also represented Great Britain on several occasions during his career, captaining them on two occasions, his position of choice was at Scrum-half. Now long retired from competitive rugby league Bishop now resides at Robina on the Gold Coast, Australia.
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“Here’s a wing [laughs]. What do you like, the leg or the wing, Henry, or do you still go for the old hearts and lungs?”
—Nicholas Pileggi, U.S. screenwriter, and Martin Scorsese. Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci)
“On the middle of that quiet floor
sits a fleet of small black ships,
square-rigged, sails furled, motionless,
their spars like burned matchsticks.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)