Phil,
Isn't it amazing how many of us feel as you do about Alan Bristow?
He was bigger than life and certainly set the example by "Walking the Walk" not just "Talking the Talk"!
I just wonder how the outfit would have turned out if he had stayed at the helm all these years....I know I would be in the Lake Country and be paying school fees yet....wearing my tweeds and propping up at my local.
Unless he would have found me out and sent me packing!