But President Mikheil Saakashvili, and Patriarch Ilia II, the 77-year-old head of the Georgian church, have other ideas.
It took the old head of Shearer, or rather his fiercely-accurate right boot, to demonstrate the art of clinical finishing.
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For someone who is not taking his GCSEs until next summer, Smith has a remarkably old head on young shoulders.
The 33-year-old head of a Spanish fire fighting unit has been accused of setting about 15 fires in the Galicia region.
They still have another wise old head out there in Cunningham's old team-mate Paul Wellens to lead the side jointly with Graham.
The 53-year-old head of the Chaudhary Group is himself a newly designated parliamentarian, one of a dozen businessmen in the 575-member Assembly.
Consider Sean Kelly, the 29 year-old head of HUMAN Healthy Vending.
Under the gaze of television cameras, Yoshizawa Yasuyuki, the 42-year-old head of the Bank of Japan's capital-markets division, was driven away in a black sedan.
The 50-year-old head of the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), was caught near Las Vegas after spending at least two years on the run.
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The 40 year-old head of Trigger Media, an investment firm focused on digital media, has helped launch eight of them, including Thrillist, Daily Candy and TastingTable.
The call from manager Uwe Rosler fell not to an old head, but to Marcello Trotta, a 20-year-old on-loan striker who had come on as a late substitute.
The 58-year-old head, who is due to retire at the end of the school year, said the promise to perform Psy's hit dance came very much on the spur of the moment.
But as the excitement builds in the countdown to Africa's first World Cup, it could be that a wise old head is exactly what Bafana Bafana need to get them ready for the challenge.
Horst Lenz, the 56-year-old head of the regional bomb-disposal squad tasked with defusing the devices Sunday, said the bomb is the largest among the hundreds of World War II-era bombs he has tackled since beginning his hair-raising career in 1984.
Will Bower, the 36-year-old head of the PUMA pack, and his like-minded Democrats are angry because they charge that the Democratic National Committee unfairly imposed sanctions on Michigan and Florida after both states violated party rules by holding primary contests before February 5.
All were serving with the Yorkshire Regiment apart from 29-year-old Capt Head, who was serving with the Royal Logistic Corps.
The new real estate king is Jonathan Gray, the understated and media shy 42-year-old global head of real estate at the Blackstone Group.
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But Laws claimed the whole country would be behind the Clarets as the 48-year-old goes head-to-head with United manager Sir Alex Ferguson for the first time in his career.
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In March 1998 Wasserstein installed Pollak, the 43-year-old former head of circulation for the New York Times, as top dog and charged him to exhort newly acquired local publications to expand their regional franchises.
The court heard computer records showed searches made that evening on the NHS Direct website for "a three-year-old hurting head and being sick", and a telephone call to a local surgery that was closed.
Mr. ElBaradei, the 68-year-old former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, is seen by a broad range of opposition leaders as a rare secular liberal with the stature to challenge Egypt's political establishment.
The Old Etonian apparently due to be named as the new head of the established church has a huge, unsustainable financial deficit to shrink - which is perhaps redolent of the challenge faced by another Old Etonian who became head of government in 2010.
Two teenagers have been jailed for life for shooting a 25-year-old in the head in a "deliberate execution".
The 27-year-old will now head to the Rome Masters as he prepares for the French Open later this month.
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The 35-year-old actor suffered head injuries while returning home from a production of A Murder Is Announced at Derby Theatre.
The 24-year-old tight-head has signed a three-year deal and will join up with his new team-mates at the liberty Stadium in the summer.
The 76-year-old suffered serious head injuries, slashes to her face and two broken arms after being struck with a bat and a knife.
James is a 27-year-old with a 35-year-old's head on his shoulders and he has been around long enough to think about what he is doing.
In fact, says, Lisa Hassanzadeh, Concrete's 37-year-old partner and head of interior design, the choice of Vitra is as much "a business deal" as a design decision.
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