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 changing into a footballer lengthy earlier than realising his appearing aspirations.
Lots of his childhood mates, together with Rangers legend Ally McCoist, would go on to forge skilled careers.
“I would like to check myself to Bukayo Saka,” Hannah defined when describing what sort of participant he was. “I performed on the suitable wing and I used to be fairly small and quick and I scored plenty of of objectives.
“My dream was to be a footballer, and it was all I ever thought of. I performed or skilled on a regular basis – however, like many desires, it did not come true.
“As I bought a bit greater I sort of segued again into midfield however once I found ladies and beer then I sort of stopped enjoying.
“As soon as I went to drama college I bought very targeted on that after which with shifting 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 Taking pictures for Socrates, the place I performed Northern Eire supervisor Billy Bingham on the 1986 World Cup.
“We had been down in Spain doing a little filming there and had a little bit of a kickaround and I keep in mind considering ‘yeah, I’ve nonetheless bought it !’
“Not anymore although – since then I’ve snapped my ACL [anterior cruciate ligament] which has put paid to soccer and plenty of sport. It’s actually simply biking and operating for me now.”
Chris Sutton and John Hannah had been chatting with BBC Sport’s Chris Bevan.
The AI predictions had been generated utilizing Microsoft Copilot Chat – we merely requested the device to ‘predict this weekend’s Premier League scores’.