And for a country who watched cockney-geezer Vinne Jones captain their national football team, Dougherty's Welsh green card is in the post.

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But it would be difficult to identify a sector that will not be profoundly affected by the advent of the boomer-geezer.

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These geezer Genie-stuffers have been joined by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.

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