Pint of IPA please wee man

It's not everyday the Hitman pours a pint from yer favourite tap in yer local.

As one of my mates said to him when he came in "Careful you dinnae slip there, pal".

The 2 or 3 seconds that followed were agonisingly long but then the cheeky Manc smile broke out and we knew he wasnae gettin a broken jaw. To think just 6 hours earlier Ricky had broken into the broom cupboard of the landing his room was on, pulled out the giant industrial hoover, plugged it in and in some drunken japery started hoovering in the hallway. Nobody was game enough to ask him to stop but it's all there to see on the CCTV camera. Maybe our landlord will be up for youtube-ing at some point.

Here he is with the owners of our local (The Victoria Park Hotel) Davs and The Fonz.

He drank Guinness. He cracked jokes. He was an absolute legend.