BC, you may not know, but Andy Capp comes from my part of the world, or anyway, a bit further south in Hartlepool.
Its said that the cartoonist based the character on a bloke he saw at a Hartlepool football match who took of his cap and put it in his pocket to keep it dry when it started raining :-)
“O Lord God, let me not be disgraced in my old days.”
'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'