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He's probably exhausted. According to the website 'Chins For Africa,' Ronnie has just donated his 100th chin for use in the area. 'I've been growing extra chins ever since the late 1980s,' Whelan told the media, 'after watching this documentary on how some little kids in Africa are either born with no chins or else their chins just fall straight off their heads without warning. I think because of the heat or that there malnutrition thing. So I remember turning to Rushie, me roommate at the time, and saying, "Jaysus, Rushie, mate, that's awful, that, truly terrible. I feel like I was meant to see that programme. Truly. It's a sign. Like Geldof and Live Aid. I, Ronnie Whelan, am going to start growing new chins for them there Africans!" Rushie just snored, the lazy fecker, but I was true to me word - I had a second chin firming up nicely for the start of the 1989/90 season, and then there was no stopping me. The other lads thought that I was a bit mad, like they do, but I was religious about it. Finish the match, open the Guinness, get the chins going. It's never been a burden. I see it as a privilege. To see an African running about with one of my chins...well, it makes me thirsty'.