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Tenuous links to football
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I saw Gary Megson in a hotel once.
Jan Molby complimented my defending during a children's football clinic at the age of 9.
Alan Kennedy drove round to my house to drop off a signed football when he heard I wasn't well and couldn't make the last day of one of his kids soccer schools.
I've met loads of footballers, but no real anecdotes or tales of knowing them or whatever... Jonas Guttierez was huddled up in the back of my shitty Ford a while back as I drove him round town talking footy with him. I nearly ran over Andy Johnson - his fault - a day or two before they beat us 3-0 in the derby. I should have slammed on the accelerator.
I've met loads of footballers, but no real anecdotes or tales of knowing them or whatever... Jonas Guttierez was huddled up in the back of my shitty Ford a while back as I drove him round town talking footy with him. I nearly ran over Andy Johnson - his fault - a day or two before they beat us 3-0 in the derby. I should have slammed on the accelerator.
Similar story... A group of my mates were asked by Ross Barkley a few years ago if he could join their game when he saw they were a player down on Picton astro. He was on there the other month too, playing with a bunch of kids. Apparently he will just go up for a game every now and again. Probably less so now, like...
I was given a real hammering by Ray Clemmence after a poor (it was really poor) pass when I attended a football camp for youngsters back in the 80's. Sammy Lee was also coaching there. He was more a warm up guy when Clemmence was the leader.
I also took the elevator once and the other three were Molby, Barnes and a junior player a later got to know was Mcmanaman.
I also took the elevator once and the other three were Molby, Barnes and a junior player a later got to know was Mcmanaman.
Does every European city have a James Joyce pub?
Jan Molby complimented on my left foot curler into the top corner at age 40. He then asked if I could do it with my right foot. I couldn't.
Got pissed with David Speedie once.
Had a 10 minute chat with Sven Goran Eriksson at Barca airport in 2001 after we'd drawn nil nil with Barca in the most boring game ever. Tried to convince him to call up Carra for England. He was very diplomatic, accommodating and just a nice guy. He was also very short.
There's not even an Irish pub where I am. It's terrible when strangers stop you in the street and ask where the Irish bar is. You try to tell them but they just won't believe you. Always a bit awkward when they walk off shouting abuse thinking you are a right rude cunt.
I once sat in the row behind him flying from Newcastle to Heathrow. You win at Flying Sven Top Trumps.
Back in the day I needed to use the phone in a hurry. I stopped at a phone box and waited, the bloke inside was taking ages so I rapped on the window to let him know I was in a hurry. Imagine my surprise when Terry McDermott opened the door and told me to fuck off.
We have a new clubhouse leader.
He's short isn't he? I still haven't got over it 15 years later!
Oh and I bumped into the whole LFC squad before the Palace away game at Selsden Park golf course. I actually went back on the course to stalk them. A few weeks before Istanbul. Had a chat with Rafa, before everyone realised who it was! We'll chat, I just bumbled compliments at him like a star struck teenager. He pretended to be cool about it and gave me his autograph. David Moores and Rick Parry snarled at me.
That's just reminded me. Got bevvied with Don Hutchison, Ian Bishop and Tim Breacker in Essex once. Don reckoned Souness was the best manager he ever worked for. My cousin used to play under Mark Wright at Oxford and Chester said he was right nutcase.
Matt Le Tissier tried to pull my ex wife while she was at uni in Southampton. She declined, on the basis he was a sleaze, married and had a very big nose.
i used to go the same brothel as wayne rooney
I sat in a bar i Newcastle eating and waiting for some European games -must been midweek- When Razor came in with some guys. The big bolster was dressed in a jacket to his jeans and it look ed like he was treated as some celebrity. By that I mean it seemed not to be close friends but rather polite strangers he was with....
So he tried to chat your granny up??
So what's?
Razor Ruddock has had loads of hangers on.
He used to go to his local golf club in Essex and buy anyone who was there drinks just so they'd sit with him. I used to know the golf pro at his club and he said that people took the utter piss out of his "generosity".
The man had / has issues. He used booze as his coping mechanism. He seems to have got back on the rails a bit more now. I've met him, sober, and sat with him. He actually came across as a pussy cat, who just wanted people to like him. Explains a lot really if you step back and look at his personality and behaviour. Or people can think he's a cunt.
The booster seat was the giveaway for me!
Jean and I lived inside Stig Inge Byornbye for about 8 weeks in the late 90s while we were looking for a house. Unfortunately he was injured at the time so we didn't get to participate in any matches but we got to hang out with Oyvind Leonardson and Bjorn Tore Kvarme sometimes which was really very exciting.
No. Very spacious. We even had people over for canasta one night.
I went on the Alan Kennedy tour in the mid-90s and we finished up at Melwood while the first team squad was getting ready for training. Razor was great, especially with the kids, as were Jamie Redknapp and Digger. Most of the others were OK too, the exceptions being Babb and McMoneyman who stood together off to one side and sneered.
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