| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer 11:01 - Jul 23 with 19848 views | monkeymagic |
Inspired by (stolen from) another forum, looking for people’s anecdotes of boring meetings/interaction, recently or from donkeys years ago.
My starter for ten is that I saw Alan Brazil in the Anchor Pub in Nayland. I smiled at him, & he smiled back at me.
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| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 14:29 - Jul 24 with 2817 views | Grandpa |
Best thing my then divorced parents did for me was paid for me to attend a 6 day residential on Bob Wilson's Goalkeeping School when I was 15
One day it had rained, but that eve, I'd gone to get my kit back from the laundry room but noticed the only pair of socks were not mine, but I'd noticed were Joe Corrigan's (his were same colour, but just 2 stripes, mine had 3 stripes)
So a shy 15 year old had to ask the giant Joe Corrigan for my Adidas socks back!
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| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 14:34 - Jul 24 with 2790 views | SE1blue |
My mate sponsored one of Town’s academy players and part of his annual ‘investment’ included a 30 minute chat and a coffee with the player at the training ground before a reserve game.
What followed was the longest 15 minutes of all of our lives as we tried to talk to a lad who only answered ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to any conversation starters. I think we ended up talking about the club’s section of biscuits for the last half of our meet and greet. |  |
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| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 14:37 - Jul 24 with 2786 views | Pippin1970 |
The three amigos at Wigan Athletic. One of them being Robert Martinez. Meet and greet at Springfield Park. My friend over the moon, I didn't care less.. | | | |
| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 14:59 - Jul 24 with 2754 views | BlueandTruesince82 |
| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 14:22 - Jul 24 by usm |
Saw Nasser Hussain in a restaurant in Hatfield Peverel
I nodded at him as if I knew him (I don't)
He nodded back as though he knew me (he doesnt) |
I saw Michael Vaughn on the Tube the other week.
Also nearly walked into Bradley and Barney Walsh as I left the office. |  |
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| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 15:16 - Jul 24 with 2725 views | Merthyrblue |
Geoff Hurst served me a pint in the Sheet Anchor near Newcastle Under Lyme once. We didn't speak. I resisted the temptation to say "it never crossed the line" although I suspect he might had heard it before |  | | |
| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 15:18 - Jul 24 with 2716 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 13:57 - Jul 24 by Horsham |
I saw Chris Kamara in a pub I used to frequent. Didn’t speak to him and he did nothing remarkable.
Edit. That was more boring to than Cheltenham’s encounter. Do I win? [Post edited 24 Jul 2023 14:00]
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You should have used the bog.
Edit: Another Kammy incident at Villa. One of the places that I had to photograph from was the TV gantry, which was accessed by climbing all the way to the back of the top tier of the Doug Ellis Stand and then across a catwalk that took you out above the fans and into the Gantry.
The only way to the top tier was up a rickety metal spiral staircase. Which Kammy always refused to go up and insisted that a steward took him through the stand and up to the top tier. [Post edited 24 Jul 2023 15:23]
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| [Redacted] on 15:30 - Jul 24 with 2690 views | victorywilhappen |
| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 09:15 - Jul 24 by yorkshireblue |
My first job when at school was at the Belstead Brook Hotel at weekend mornings. Back then, this is where all the opposition teams (and refs) stayed before games (and anyone performing at the regent etc.... except Jim Davidson who got banned!) so I met quite a lot of the opposition players back in the day.
Distinctly remember Mike Riley coming down to breakfast after we finished serving wanting his breakfast in a full Worthington Cup Final tracksuit - turns out he was only the 4th official for the final.
Two that stand out in a positive way. Neil Warnock - a lovely man.Shouted at one of his players for not holding the door open for me when I was carrying a room service tray. Paul Gerrard when he was on loan stayed there (I think he trained at Everton and came down on match days?) was incredibly nice.
Quite a few stand out for negative reasons as well (incluidng some former town players) but we won't dwell on that. |
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| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 15:40 - Jul 24 with 2653 views | hype313 |
| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 14:01 - Jul 24 by hoppy |
I passed Wes Burns on the other side of the street in Upper Brook Street last week one lunchtime. He was passing Greggs, I was passing Wilko on my way back from Sainsbury's. He didn't look at me, I didn't say anything to him. |
Out of interest, what did you get from Sainsburys? |  |
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| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 15:46 - Jul 24 with 2635 views | Funge |
After the 4-1 debacle at Bolton that saw us effectively relegated from the Prem, my mates and I were stuck in one of the myriad of motorways in Greater Manchester, trying to get back down south and to forget about football for a while.
Youri Djorkaeff was in a very big Range Rover next to us. I shouted 'w@nker' at him, he showed me the score on his hands followed by the universal sign for relegation.
Subsequent shouts of 'w@nker' were ignored.
The End. [Post edited 24 Jul 2023 15:47]
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| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 15:52 - Jul 24 with 2612 views | hoppy |
| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 15:40 - Jul 24 by hype313 |
Out of interest, what did you get from Sainsburys? |
Rather excitingly, a pint of milk. |  |
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| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 15:53 - Jul 24 with 2612 views | Horsham |
| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 15:46 - Jul 24 by Funge |
After the 4-1 debacle at Bolton that saw us effectively relegated from the Prem, my mates and I were stuck in one of the myriad of motorways in Greater Manchester, trying to get back down south and to forget about football for a while.
Youri Djorkaeff was in a very big Range Rover next to us. I shouted 'w@nker' at him, he showed me the score on his hands followed by the universal sign for relegation.
Subsequent shouts of 'w@nker' were ignored.
The End. [Post edited 24 Jul 2023 15:47]
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I saw Chris Woods in a car park at Elm Park before we played Reading and shouted w@nker at him. He didn’t react, not sure if my memory fails me but I think Williams scored ‘that’ goal that day. Maybe he was rattled. |  | | |
| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 15:54 - Jul 24 with 2601 views | thorpedo |
I was leaving Sainsbury's petrol station on a Saturday evening after Ipswich had beaten Notts Forest 6-0. I had purchased a copy of The Green Un (twtd!) and was reading the headline as I left the shop. A fellow customer was arriving as I left, and held the door open for me as I exited. It was Fabian Wilnis. "Nice result" he said - pointing to the headline on my paper. "Thanks, thanks" was all I could reply. |  |
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| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 15:56 - Jul 24 with 2581 views | hype313 |
| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 15:52 - Jul 24 by hoppy |
Rather excitingly, a pint of milk. |
Scenes. | |
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| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 15:59 - Jul 24 with 2552 views | Horsham |
| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 15:56 - Jul 24 by hype313 |
Scenes. |
Full fat? Organic? Semi skimmed?
I think Wes would buy organic. | | | |
| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 16:08 - Jul 24 with 2529 views | hoppy |
| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 15:56 - Jul 24 by hype313 |
Scenes. |
I know. I was surprised that Wes didn't even as much as glance across the road to see that. | |
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| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 16:09 - Jul 24 with 2522 views | hoppy |
| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 15:59 - Jul 24 by Horsham |
Full fat? Organic? Semi skimmed?
I think Wes would buy organic. |
It was semi-skimmed, but it was I that purchased it.
Wes didn't have any milk with him. (Not that was visible, anyway.) | |
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| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 16:18 - Jul 24 with 2483 views | Horsham |
| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 16:09 - Jul 24 by hoppy |
It was semi-skimmed, but it was I that purchased it.
Wes didn't have any milk with him. (Not that was visible, anyway.) |
I would have had you down as a semi skimmed man. Fair enough. | | | |
| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 08:24 - Jul 25 with 2291 views | Kitman |
Mid 80's- black tie dinner event hosted by an insurance company I was working for. After dinner speaker was David Pleat. Never had a listen to a more boring after dinner speech than that. Worse still he droned on and on for for the fat end of a whole hour.. |  |
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| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 08:53 - Jul 25 with 2258 views | Kitman |
| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 14:11 - Jul 24 by Horsham |
Also I once declined credit to a former Liverpool goalkeeper. Maybe that’s too interesting. Hope not.
Not a reply to you. Pressed the wrong button. Bloody hell. [Post edited 24 Jul 2023 14:12]
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Late 70's. When working in finance, I turned down a loan for one of our players at the time (and a very well known one as well) | |
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| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 11:14 - Jul 25 with 2175 views | artsbossbeard |
Luis Enrique walked past me at Barcelona airport a few years back.
I played it cool by stopping still and staring at him. |  |
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| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 13:31 - Jul 25 with 2084 views | hoppy |
| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 16:09 - Jul 24 by hoppy |
It was semi-skimmed, but it was I that purchased it.
Wes didn't have any milk with him. (Not that was visible, anyway.) |
I've just got to pop out for another pint of milk, so will update if anything as exciting occurs again. | |
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| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 14:58 - Jul 25 with 2012 views | hoppy |
| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 13:31 - Jul 25 by hoppy |
I've just got to pop out for another pint of milk, so will update if anything as exciting occurs again. |
I went and got milk, and didn't see any footballers, either on the way there, in Sainsbury's or on my return. Thought I'd better give an update on the situation. | |
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| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 15:25 - Jul 25 with 1974 views | slaughteredskipper |
15 years ago i met most of the town team at a service station on their way down to play Plymouth. I was at the urinal and thought the big bloke next to me looked like Jason de Vos, shrugged it off only to emerge into the service station and they were everywhere. Had a chat with Jim Magilton who told me my one year old daughter was 'lovely' and he held her for a photo opportunity, before looking longingly at Burger King and saying 'i shouldn't really it doesn't set the right example!' Then i went and got in the queue to Costa and Tommy Miller and Pablo were in front of me - I raised my eyebrows and said 'Pablo, Tommy' - not a flicker! |  | | |
| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 15:48 - Jul 25 with 1929 views | WeWereZombies |
| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 14:58 - Jul 25 by hoppy |
I went and got milk, and didn't see any footballers, either on the way there, in Sainsbury's or on my return. Thought I'd better give an update on the situation. |
That's because Harry Clarke is suspended until the second game of the season, he was probably upstairs in Café Nero - my guess is an espresso, not in the slightest interested in your semi-skimmed... |  |
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| Dullest Encounter With A Footballer on 15:54 - Jul 25 with 1908 views | NthQldITFC |
Trevor Brooking presented me with a winners medal for a five-a-side competition when I was kid. His hand was clammy. |  |
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