Phil Daniels
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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Right now, in the present. I have a short memory.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2009 source ↗
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As a boy in a tree.
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1990 FA Cup final, playing for Crystal Palace.
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Any type of indecision.
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