tolmie's hairdoo
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You'd be paying these days :(
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Never meet your heroes.....
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You'd be paying these days :(
feelymcfeel
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Met Jimmy Savile in a Chinese in Scarborough.......thought he was a creepy fucker then!!
He fixed it for me to milk a cow blindfolded. What a guy.
blue b4 the moon
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Did he suggest your username too?
Met him in the Waldorf pub one match day afternoon think it was a champions league game later, nice bloke and he had a very attractive lady with himI seem to recall he admitted to having some sort of addiction a few years ago - gambling I think - and it left him broke. Whatever it was it would probably also be related to drink, bearing in mind the era in which he played & that he's a Jock (no offence intended, other Jocks) . If that's true then little wonder the years haven't been kind to him.
Ha ha 01282 that is me old Trawden prefix. Where are you mate? Jack's competition was Peter Noble, the old Burnley captain, who had a stall selling spotswear on Burnley market. Ha ha - can you imagine Vincent Kompany working on a market stall when he wasn't required for team duties!? Peter's daughter was a cracking footie player - used to rung rings round the lads at college. She hadn't inherited her dad's combover either.
Not too far away pal as I’m in Colne. I’m Manchester born and moved to east lancs just after the Halifax game!! I remember Peter Noble’s shop well and bought many City kits there in the early 80s
ColinBellsjockstrap
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Met Gary Glitter backstage once he was lovely
Did he put the bang in gang?
I saw him in Bournemouth in 1972.....Fantastic gig.
Dirty Harry
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I met the great Tommy Hearns once outside the Kronk in Detroit. He was walking in with two or three guys and he was absolutely spot on with us. Put his bags down, posed for a picture, gave me his autograph - all the while his friends are putting girly voices on going “Tommy can I get your autograph next please”. Unbelievably he invited us to come inside and watch him train, it was 1999 and he was way past his best but it was like a fairytale for me just being in the kronk and watching him put his wraps on and get laced up and do some pad work and hit the bags.
Loved reading that mate, for me, Tommy was only a decent chin away from being the man back then, and I include MMH (fuck me what a tough guy) and Sugar Ray, and I don't say that lightly, still, to this day, the way Tommy finished the Duran fight was possibly the best knockout I've ever seen.
Dirty Harry
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Jet2 flight last year. Shay Given is queuing up for the loo. Missus gets all excited and tramples all over me to get to him. She then asks him for a selfie he says yes, then she realises she actually doesn't know how to take one! I kid you not. He duly obliges and takes the picture. He was really nice and let on when were getting off.
I had to get Paul McGrath to sign a legal document once, long after he'd left the rags, he kept referring to me by name and was really down to earth. When it come to getting him to swear and then sign the document I said, "Here's someting I never thought i would ask an ex-united player, will you sign this?" meaning the affidavit. He looked at me and asked if I was a City fan. Once he knew he was absolutely brilliant and chatted for a good five minutes about City, it was the Keegan promotion year and he was really complimentary. I truly didn't want to like him, childish really, it was impossible not to. Nice guy.
I had to call at his house in Hale/Hale Barns many many years ago, around 95, I found him a really likeable and pleasant bloke too tbh, his Mrs back then was genuinely one of the most beautiful looking girls I'd ever seen.
Blootoof
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Met Jimmy Savile in a Chinese in Scarborough.......thought he was a creepy fucker then!!
Which hospital was this?
jimharri
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Loved reading that mate, for me, Tommy was only a decent chin away from being the man back then, and I include MMH (fuck me what a tough guy) and Sugar Ray, and I don't say that lightly, still, to this day, the way Tommy finished the Duran fight was possibly the best knockout I've ever seen.
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