Never meet your heroes.....

[Bigg Bigg Blue]

You're not in the police are you? Due for retirement?

No mate, to honest to be a copper.

 

[CockneyWanchor]

I was at that,With Dave Wallace and co.on a Sunday Night.

So let me get this straight: 2 players from arch-rival teams turned up....and no one had bricks and fireworks chucked at their modes of transport?

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

Met Tommy Booth after a High Flying Birds concert in Blu Bar in Town. Sat had a few beers with me and my mates talking about the blues past and present,he was brilliant.

Same here. He is a regular in Magaluf in late September most years and had several chats with him there

 

[Snape]

In the late 90s after a Saturday night in Royales (where Nicky Weaver was always at the back bar) we went to an American diner on Deansgate. In the diner Kit Symons and Nicky Summerbee were eating at a table they let me and my 2 mates join them they were very friendly and we had good chat about footy.

 

[TINY]

When and where did you meet him?

Wetherspoons in Middleton, abouuuuuut 5 years ago, maybe a tad more.

 

[TINY]

Met Tommy Booth after a High Flying Birds concert in Blu Bar in Town. Sat had a few beers with me and my mates talking about the blues past and present,he was brilliant.

Maybe he was in a mood at the time. I’ve heard people tel me he was great, and I’ve heard people tell me he was an arse. Suppose the guys human

 

[El Gringo]

Met the Marvelous one a few years back in New Hampshire where he lives for most of the year. A complete gent. Signed a napkin for my son which said "Stay in school! Marvelous Marvin Hagler" Chatted for a few minutes - well we were in a bar and he was having a beer. He was in no rush to leave either. Went home that night and showed my son the Hearns fight.
BTW, he's still one tough-looking mofo.

What I would give to have experienced that. I worked for a personal security company back in the late eighties, early nineties and have met many famous people, from Jerry Lee Lewis to Cher and si in. He'll I even had to bail the GPC out off Gmex once after a rowdy Pat Barrett fight ( I know, but I'm professionalism personified ) and I'd swap it all, even my afternoon with Spanish Dave, my all time City Hero to meet that man. Lucky twat

 

[salford blue 62]

Yes mate,it was a Sunday night.....forgot that.

 

[salford blue 62]

Cockneywanchor,...it wasnt just a couple of players,there was loads past and present from both sides....top night.

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

I was sat at the bar in a country pub near Kidderminster in 1978 minding my own business when Led Zeppelin's late great John Bonham came in and sat right next to me and ordered a pint.

As a massive Zeppelin fan, I froze, but plucked up the courage to say "Hello John"

He said "Fuck off", downed it in one and left.


What a guy......:-)