Ingle, wrote Foot, "had a gift for what today is rather glibly known as motivation".

He created, wrote and produced Six Feet Under (for which he won an Emmy Award) and True Blood.

At 18:45 20th Sep 2010, Tinos Happy Feet wrote: The AFA have changed the rules before and will again if River are in danger of going down.

Foot wrote: "The Lord's and Old Trafford Tests became painful rather than treasured memories; he pleaded silently that he would not ever be selected again."

"A nation's sporting press meticulously documented the carbuncle's throb-rate," Foot writes.

In the biography, Foot writes of discovering the depth and the variety of Gimblett's different hatreds: "The hate - his uncompromising word - was spread over a wide area."

Foot was an expert on the poet Shelley, and wrote a pioneering book (Red Shelley) which exalted the radical politics of Shelley's poetry.

Foot writes that Buttle was "a very good club bowler, fast by those standards and able to move the ball away."

Foot wrote a slanted Life of John Hunter.

In a later co-authored book, Foot wrote: "He rarely courted popularity and certainly antagonised some by the cussed individuality of his personality.