wykikitoon 16552 Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 17 minutes ago, Tom said: Courtesy of @JawD giving me a hotel room where the players were staying during Stevie Harper’s testimonial - a friend an I, both dressed quite smartly, walked straight into the private section of the hotel where the AC Milan players were eating. We sat down in the middle of them and enjoyed a free bar, a free meal and then got our pictures taken with the players. Luckily my friend speaks fluent Italian, I was fucking mortal. Nobody said anything That's class Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13830 Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 Met loads of toon players as well, it was mental. Had a couple of pints with Keith Gillespie, Darren Peacock & David Ginola Ended up sharing breakfast with Brian Kilcline. Ive got photos but have no place to upload them & can’t figure it out. Storage space on here man.... @Ant help me 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 14030 Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 snipboard.io is good for basic sharing if you don't need it indexed so you can find it again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 5899 Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 I said hello to Pav in Prague airport a few months before he died. Wish I’d asked him for a picture. He definitely would have said yes, unlike some other bastards I know 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30336 Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 (edited) 15 hours ago, Tom said: My uncle once seen Wyn Davies in the Turkish baths at Gateshead. He was absolutely black & blue with horrible bruises everywhere. “Ah, it was terrible, terrible” - Uncle. He thought “there’s no chance he’ll be playing against Man City on Saturday”. Obviously he played. I know someone who used to play alongside him and Wynn Davies was apparently on a genuine pay as you play deal so that helps explain that. Edited June 27, 2020 by Alex 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spongebob toonpants 3594 Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 44 minutes ago, Tdansmith said: Did you notice that your gloves were missing once you got home We did used to call him fingers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essembeeofsunderland 811 Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 4 hours ago, spongebob toonpants said: I used to vaguely know Wes Saunders. Was in a pub in Boldon Colliery after a game one Saturday and I said to him pretty quiet game today Wes. He pulled his shirt up and he looked like hed been beaten with a club. Same with his legs. It was brutal His fatha had a factory on the Helton Lyons ind est.Saunders used to live just of the A690 Near East Rainton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essembeeofsunderland 811 Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 3 hours ago, Alex said: I know someone who used to okay alongside him and Wynn Davies was apparently on a genuine pay as you play deal so that helps explain that. Wyn and Tommy Gibb used to live near Chester le Street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essembeeofsunderland 811 Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 I delivered 2 boxes of French football magazines to the French team when they stayed at The George Hotel at Chollerford during a Euro 96. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Whitehurst 778 Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 My old man is quite good friends with David Craig so I’ve met him quite a few and he is a really lovely bloke. I once met one of Aswad in Gatwick duty free - beat that! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 12756 Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 Wish I’d never asked now, Jesus Christ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 12756 Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 I once saw Nikos Dabizas and his lass shopping for wedding dresses once and he looked well miserable. Top that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trophyshy 6432 Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 MVB barbecued my hamster. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougle 2853 Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 I once had to squeeze behind Titus Bramble in Gosforth Asda whilst acquiring two cheese pies on me dinner break. End of thread. (Including all the sale of the club stuff) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3187 Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 I met Kevin Keegan in Glasgow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polarboy 2124 Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 (edited) I live about an hour or so's drive from Lifford in Donegal which is where Shay Given was born and bred. A friend of the family is pretty good mates with Seamus, Shay's dad. We all went to a pre-season match together when Dalglish, heaven help us, was managing the team. We were playing Bohemians in Dublin. Met Shay's sister who's a looker, or at least was 23 years ago Met Seamus and asked him what big Al was like and he had only good things to say, but I suppose it's not likely he'd say anything else, then again Al and Shay are supposed to be pretty good mates. After the match we went to the hotel the lads were staying at. I met Shay and John Barnes, the rest of the lads were already sitting down for a drink. Dalglish's son and another player, I can't recall who, were sharing a pint of Guinness like two old grannies. Unfortunately it was early preseason so Shearer and Rob Lee were still sunning themselves on their annual joint family holiday. Oh yeah met Dabizas as well who seemed like a sound bloke, as did Barnes and Shay. Having said all that Shay has a bit of a reputation on the drink when he's been out and about around Donegal. For further context I was 14 when all this happened if following players back to the hotel sounds a bit juvenile. Edit. Actually it was the 98/99 preseason, so it was 22 years ago. Edited June 26, 2020 by Polarboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 38682 Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 I was walking down Grey St. when I was a kid and saw Supermac walking up on the other side of the road. Bumped in to his knee. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19782 Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 I served Terry Mac when I used to pull pints at the Chinese restaurant in Darras Hall. He told me the keep the beers coming. I obliged and he tipped me a fiver, which was massive to a 15 year old. Legend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tdansmith 2093 Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 I was in the bigg market ladbrokes a long while ago and Glenn Roeder was talking to a well known bookies dweller at the time called world cup willie (r.i.p) I said hello Glenn, how you doing ? He looked up from the racing post he was reading, said nowt then looked back down at the paper. world cup willie with a look and slight movement of the head told me to fuck off. So i did. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougle 2853 Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 2 hours ago, Kevin Carr's Gloves said: I met Kevin Keegan in Glasgow Dark glasses and red rose in the button hole? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OTF 6134 Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 I ran into big Al in a sports store in Sydney, strangely he was standing at the end of a rather lengthy queue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essembeeofsunderland 811 Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 I once worked with a lad who drank in The Diamond Inn at Ponteland.He said it was Shearer’s local and also Terry Mac’s,Steve Watson’s and Lee Clark’s.Shearer drank lager shandies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holden McGroin 4833 Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 I once queued behind Gary Speed in a card shop on Northumberland Street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 16552 Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 The Brownlee brothers live around the corner frome me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30336 Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 10 hours ago, Ayatollah Hermione said: I once saw Nikos Dabizas and his lass shopping for wedding dresses once and he looked well miserable. Top that! I saw him in that Greek restaurant in the Bigg Market Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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