Personal Life
Hancock met his wife, Iranian-born Shari Eftekhari, during a George Best and Rodney Marsh football roadshow in Staines, Surrey. Hancock proposed to Shari in a pub: "We were playing pool in the Nellie Dean. I said to Shari: 'Have I got something stuck between my teeth?' As she looked I stuck out my tongue - there was an engagement ring on it. She said: 'That's lovely, yes, I will - but can we change the ring?" The couple married in Staffordshire in 1997, two years after they first met, and have two children, Dolores (born 1999) and Harvey (born 2001).
Hancock is one of the most famous Stoke City F.C. fans. As a lifelong genuine fan he is hugely popular with fellow Stokies who respect his unwavering support for the club through many a lean year. In September 2001, he paid £20,000 at Sotheby's Football Memorabilia auction in London for the FA Cup winner's medal awarded to Sir Stanley Matthews in 1953. In 2007, he made an appearance on an edition of Antiques Roadshow recorded in Stoke-on-Trent, talking about some of the items in his collection of football memorabilia. He is also an avid cricket fan. He was interviewed by 6 Town Radio about the 40th anniversary of Stoke's 1972 League Cup win.
Hancock was represented at a hearing at Perth District Court on 12 November 2008 at which he asked that he be spared an automatic six-month driving ban. It was revealed during the hearing that he had at least three previous convictions for speeding. The court ordered him to appear in person in December 2008. It was also revealed in the course of the hearing that Hancock lives in a mansion in Shropshire worth an estimated £1.1 million. On 3 December Hancock was banned from driving for six months.
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