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This may come as a shock to many, but I have never seen a single moment of Game Of Thrones. Yes, I gather it is amazing, yes I know it’s possibly the best thing ever committed to the silver screen and yes, you’re going to implore me to watch it because “I don’t know what I’m missing.”Save your breath. It ain’t happening. People to see, places to go, kinda thing. What I do know about GOT (see, I at least know the lingo) is that it starred (or did) Sheffield’s very own Sean Bean.Now the reason I know this is because our Sean features in a series of those viral web photos, known as “memes” to the uninitiated.You know the kind of things, the wild-haired guy with the outstretched arms proclaiming “aliens,” Star Trek’s facepalming Jean-Luc Picard, the “condescending Willy Wonka” picture."There’s people out there not party to When Saturday Comes" Sean has the pleasure of starring in two of these.There’s the one of him cloaked in fur, clutching a sword and looking all weatherbeaten, the caption for which generally begins “brace yourselves...” and then his “One Does Not Simply...” speech from Lord Of The Rings (if you are still bemused, Google them).Now a certain generation are going to grow up with these pictures as reference to Sean’s huge body of work (indeed, both my sons know him for that and that alone).There’s an entire swathe of people out there who will never be party to his “better let him live his dream and play for Sheffield United fantasy” flick When Saturday Comes (actually, possibly a good thing) or him apparently uttering the infamous line “Come lass, let’s mek luv while t’bacon fries” as rough diamond groundsman Mellors in a decidely saucy, sex-fuelled 1993 TV telling of Lady Chatterley’s Lover with Joely Richardson.And that’s not to mention him being the voice of the purple route trams, although I wish they’d allowed him to keep his Sheffield tones a little bit more and refer to it as ’erdings Park (no H).So brace yourselves folks, let’s embrace Sean for his many fine works.One does not simply want to be remembered for a picture.
