Abraham Romanovich Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 Only possible sighting by me was Garth Crooks about 20 years ago in the south of France , even this was unconfirmed and it may have been some bloke in a Tottenham shirt. who had more than a passing resemblance. All a bit of an anti climax really Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snufflelufagus Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 Malcolm Christie in Magaluf and also Lee Peacock in Magaluf (who apparently went there for 4 weeks every year) quiet some time ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Red Rich Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 Bryan Gunn in 2002 on a campsite near Brittany! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port Said Red Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 Malcolm Christie in Magaluf and also Lee Peacock in Magaluf (who apparently went there for 4 weeks every year) quiet some time ago. I had a friend who's son went to Magaluf with LP a couple of times, they were good mates and he was a very nice chap apparently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 Sat at a table in a bar with Rio Ferdinand - a friend of an acquaintance who I was with. He just sort of sat there mute, grinning throughout. Close up, he looks even more like a cross between Morph and a camel than ever. As for City, back in the 70s when my dad worked for the club, I met most of the players. I still have - and keep my vinyl LPs - in a cabinet set made for dad by Brian Drysdale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abraham Romanovich Posted June 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 Not sure if this should be included but a couple of years ago we stayed in a small alpine village as the same time as FC Nuremburg who were doing their pre season training. Obviously had no idea of any of the players but it was quite bizzare everywhere you went German players in track suits appeared as if out of nowhere. Will say this without exception were all very quiet and polite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUMMAT OUTTA NOWT Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 City related I regulary see Peter Spiring who now has a electrical business near me. At Blackpool a few years ago now Peter Beardsley mowed me down whilst chasing his kids at the pleasure beach and was most apoligetic. Also saw Harry Rednapp a fair few times to the point of being on saying hello terms when he lived at Sandbanks near Poole where I lived for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalifoniaRed Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 Met Robbie Fowler a couple of times a few years back in Florida. He was happy to chat even though he was with his family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catcott_red1 Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 met the whole ajax squad a couple of days after they played us in a pre season friendly. My mates dad (St holder) works for the people that sponser them i got to go along and meet with them and got all though autographs on a poster which hangs proudly in my room. Also met martin Jol shook his hand. He is massive.Also got to train with thier coaches it was amazing. Also met scott murray and tony butler when i was 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Shortie Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 Alan shearer in Portugal back in his early Blackburn and England days. Was with wife and friends walking through old albufeira. My dad did not know who he was but then he always called our players by another name. As it happens think shearer was out for start of that season with food poisoning from some seafood he ate in Portugal. Nice chap, he realised I knew who he was and sort of give me a nod as he went by. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Taylor is GOD Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 The night before the Champions League final in 2007, me and the missus went to the rooftop bar of the Grand Bretagne Hotel in Athens and bumped into Bradley Orr and Phil Jevons. Through Bradley's Grandad we then met Graham Souness, Jamie Rednapp, Andy Gray, Ruud Gullet, Richard Keys etc. We only went up for a drink and a view of the accropolis! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry_mack Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 On her flight back from Brazil my bird got pictures with a lot of the Brazil team. That Neymar is an ugly bastard. You still would though. And she probably did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Risk Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 i stayed in the same hotel in magaluf as Packie Bonner on my 1st lads holiday away, he was with his entire family and was a great chap always happy to chat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashton Great Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 Met Boaz Myhill in Malia 2003, not long after his loan spell with us - another quality keeper we had on loan that never played! Top bloke, as were all of his mates. Simon Clist was in Portugal in 2004 with his mrs, although my mate alienated him a bit by ripping him about the pen he missed in the playoffs for Barnet I think! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Orns Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 On her flight back from Brazil my bird got pictures with a lot of the Brazil team. That Neymar is an ugly bastard. You still would though. And she probably did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Team In Keynsham Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 A number of rather random ones: Trevor Francis at Heathrow departures some time in the 80s; Alan Shearer on a flight from England right after Euro 96; Rainer Bonhof in Madrid during the Spain 82 world cup; Kenny Dalglish with his folks over here on holiday; Alex McLeish and his family in Jo'burg last year; Brian Kidd, Peter Shilton, Geoff Hurst and Jackie Charlton all over here in recent years on sportsman dinner type things. All of them nice enough to chat to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laner Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 In no particular order, some I can remember that were chance meetings and not at Dinners or Events... Gary Mabbutt when I was on a stag do once in Bournemouth! All of us chatted with him for a short time. Didn't seem to mind half a dozen fairly drunk people talking to him. Nice guy. Alex Ferguson at Chester Racecourse. Was happy to talk to us as he entered the Owners Enclosure. Also made a point of speaking to us when he left after his horse had raced... though wasn't so keen to refund our losing bets! I know people will have their own opinions but when I met him he seemed a nice guy and happy to talk / acknowledge us. Robbie Savage again in Chester (same day as Sir Alex) on the dance floor of a nightclub (where else?!!). Again nothing bad to say about him. Didn't spend too long with him and couldn't really chat but he seemed OK and was quite a laugh. Oh and to keep it City related... I was once in a three-legged race tied to Tom Richie. Years and years ago in Victoria Park! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lita For Congo Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 Met Lee Hughes in magaluf about 3 weeks ago, he took some abuse and didnt take it well lets say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grifty Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 Met Nathan Dyer on saturday walking through the Westfield centre in London. I thought I recognised him and said "Nathan" he spun round and was happy to chat for a bout 10 mins about football and the prem. Seemed genuinely happy someone recognised him. Got a photo and tried to get him to sign for us and stay in the championship. Then I tried to get a trial at swansea... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolman_Stand Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 Luke Wilkshire on plane to Zante in 2006ish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sodburyred Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 Met Lee Hughes in magaluf about 3 weeks ago, he took some abuse and didnt take it well lets say. I Like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RED4LIFE Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 Richie Humphries on a lads holiday in Malia Andy Sinton on holiday in Kavos. Bryan Robson in Bristol years ago and then at a service station a few years later. Gerry Francis (when he was manager of the Gas, mid 80's) on holiday in Menorca when I was 14/15.My mum and dad were chatting to him and his wife and my mum told me his daughter apparently fancied me and wanted to chat. I said I wont have anything to do with her because of her old man!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dollymarie Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 I wasn't on holiday, but Harry Redknapp almost ran me over once! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUMMAT OUTTA NOWT Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 Richie Humphries on a lads holiday in Malia Andy Sinton on holiday in Kavos. Bryan Robson in Bristol years ago and then at a service station a few years later. Gerry Francis (when he was manager of the Gas, mid 80's) on holiday in Menorca when I was 14/15.My mum and dad were chatting to him and his wife and my mum told me his daughter apparently fancied me and wanted to chat. I said I wont have anything to do with her because of her old man!. :laughcont: :laughcont: love the gerry francis line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSY RED2 Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 I saw Brian Stein and Graham Rix in a Novotel in Caen when they were playing over there! Also bumped into mikael Silvestre in a bar in Rennes when I was on a footy tour! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westred1 Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 Was at Heathrow waiting for a plane to Lanzarote when my dad goes there's Alan Smith! I was 10 at the time and got really excited as it when he had just signed for United I think and I turned round to see a guy that I'd never seen before; my dad was happy cos it was the Alan Smith who used to play for Arsenal. On the same holiday Frank Worthington stayed in our hotel. I didnt know who he was but dad explained to me and i looked him up and was fairly surprised! He was about 50ish I think but he played football with us in the courts and my oh my he was unbelievable he still had it! Except for one shot which he kicked my ball into the middle of the road it then got run over and he bought me and new one and signed it! He'd lost his memory though; couldnt seem to find his room everyday and was heard shouting for his wife every hour of the day - strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty-H Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 Kevin Keegan and Peter Beardsley at Orlando International Airport in Florida. Not at the same time. Different years, even. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westred1 Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 Stayed in a hotel the night before a Port Vale away game and we didnt know it was the hotel city were staying in! Phillips was really ill and taking some medicine before and that obviously effected his performance cos he was crap and we lost 3-0! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbcfc Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 I met Lee Peacock in Magaluf. I went up to him and told him he was Lee Peacock, he denied it. I told him I was sure he was and finally he agreed and autographed my beer mat. Still got it at home somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol_South_End Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 Me and my brother had our picture taken with Lee Sharp at a celebrity golf day when I was about 6, was a very nice chap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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