I met Justin Fashanu in a pub in Daltson about two weeks before he died.
What the hell did you say to him? :-0 (surprised emoticon) Sadly took his own life whilst waiting to be tried in the USA on sexual assault charges.
He was a really nice bloke, at the time the USA stuff was a little vague/possibly had been dropped (memory might not be right here). The pub was a mixed/gay pub that the team I played for used as a base. He was amazed to find a football team in there and chatted quite a bit to a couple of us, mainly about Brian Clough and knee injuries as I remember.
Killer worked as a PE teacher at my school in my last year. Played football with him for a bit and saw him embarrass a few of the kids who thought they were a bit tasty.
Bruce Grobbelaar & Juan Pablo Montoya (I used to work for Allianz the sponsor of F1 Williams team), Bruce had some kind words about Shaun Bartlett and Mark Fiiiiiiiiiiiiish, unfortunately we only spoke for half an hour or so as he had a cab booked and was meeting Steve McMahon.....this was in Singapore.
Met loads if footballers and other sports people in la manga had a good drink one night with rugby boys jason leonard and simon shaw great company also paul jewell and alan mcanally really good laugh.
Met loads if footballers and other sports people in la manga had a good drink one night with rugby boys jason leonard and simon shaw great company also paul jewell and alan mcanally really good laugh.
B he was pissed every night as where most of em its a whos who of footballers and celebritys out there mcanally was brilliant always up for a chat and a laugh gordon strachan was an arse , also danny wilson was superb , but lee martin former man utd player was the best he came out on the lash with us most nights.
My Dad met Sam Bartram once, he told him the toughest player he had played against was Trevor Ford the old Welsh centre-forward. As well as the usual body charges, his favourite trick was to throw a handful of mud in Sams face as a corner was coming over!
Not a meeting exactly, but I did get an indirect bollocking from Ken Bates when he was Chairman at Chelsea.
It was the day we got a point at the Bridge with a 1-1 draw which we needed to stay up. My mate's brother-in-law was the Chelsea kit man and we got complimentaries (nearly got mullahed when we scored) and access to the players lounge after. Met some of the Chelsea lads and a few of ours although they didn't hang around long, plus Malcolm MacDonald.Then me and my mate wandered up the tunnel and out onto the pitch, revelling in the history of the place, doing pretend shots and all the twatty things you might imagine. Then an official comes out and somewhat impolitely tells us the Chairman says to get off the f*****g pitch pronto or else. Hey ho, back to the bar.
Harry cripps and pat Holland used to take us for football at School, still remmeeber bouncing off harry Cripps - a real brick shit house.
"Sir Charlie Wright" used to take us for football and tennis when I was at Eltham Green school in the 60s. Used to laze about smoking most of the time. Dick Plumb (the original) did it for a while too.
On a boys holiday in Tenerife in 98 two scouse lads in the room next door to one of ours tagged along with the 8 of us for a week who turned out to be Steven Gerrard and Alan Wright, not bad lads at the time.
Changing tack - who has met any of the following & can claim the most points.
5 points Willie Carson Geoff Capes Terry Griffiths Fatima Whitbread Steve Ovett Eddie the Eagle Edwards Nigel Mansell Ian Botham Kenny Dogleash Eric Bristow
10 points George Best Derek Randall Bill Beaumont John Lowe Lester Piggot Torvill or Dean (10 points for the pair - 5 points individually) Chemmy Alcott (skiing totty) James Hunt Allan Wells Charlie Magri
15 points Mohammed Ali Sir Alf Ramsey Sir Roger Bannister JPR Williams Victoria Pendleton Sir Viv Richards Jocky Wilson Alex Higgins Frankie Dettori Robin Cousins
Ian Botham, George Best, Derek Randall, Viv Richards
Not a meeting exactly, but I did get an indirect bollocking from Ken Bates when he was Chairman at Chelsea.
It was the day we got a point at the Bridge with a 1-1 draw which we needed to stay up. My mate's brother-in-law was the Chelsea kit man and we got complimentaries (nearly got mullahed when we scored) and access to the players lounge after. Met some of the Chelsea lads and a few of ours although they didn't hang around long, plus Malcolm MacDonald.Then me and my mate wandered up the tunnel and out onto the pitch, revelling in the history of the place, doing pretend shots and all the twatty things you might imagine. Then an official comes out and somewhat impolitely tells us the Chairman says to get off the f*****g pitch pronto or else. Hey ho, back to the bar.
Malcolm Macdonald, I'd forgotten about him. Got a programme from a home game against fulham from the early 80's signed by him when he was their manager. It's also signed by john motson, David Hamilton and Dave Mehmet!
You live on the same street as Lord Coe? This begs the question; Why ain't you buying the club then?
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Coz I don't have £40m to throw away. Nice bloke. Opens our fete and travels up on SW trains and the tube.
He must have a few bob though, have you asked him if he fancies putting a bid in, friendly family club, loads of potential and all that or you could go halves :0)
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Phil Neville who asked for help to understand the departure board at Heathrow
Went to school with George Boyd and Rob Elliot.
He seemed more interested in getting a photo with me than I was with him.
It was the day we got a point at the Bridge with a 1-1 draw which we needed to stay up. My mate's brother-in-law was the Chelsea kit man and we got complimentaries (nearly got mullahed when we scored) and access to the players lounge after. Met some of the Chelsea lads and a few of ours although they didn't hang around long, plus Malcolm MacDonald.Then me and my mate wandered up the tunnel and out onto the pitch, revelling in the history of the place, doing pretend shots and all the twatty things you might imagine. Then an official comes out and somewhat impolitely tells us the Chairman says to get off the f*****g pitch pronto or else. Hey ho, back to the bar.
; )