Players you have met

[bluemoonjack]

swp was seeing a neighbours daughter just before he left for chelsea,she brought him round to my birthday barbecue,stayed for about half an hour ,real nice lad had a chat and photos with all the family,signed my daughters shirt,even the red in- laws were awe struck that he would just turn up like that,don't think any of their players would have done that

 

[Seasideblue]

Met a few but the two that stick in my mind are Gazza and Paul Stewart when Stewart was still at Blackpool

Met them in a restaurant in Blackpool Gazza was a gent but Stewart was a complete prick and i told him so

 

[bellwhaft]

Geoff Lomas.

 

[Nervous Nedum]

Met Michael Johnson in H&M once, seemed like an alright lad but a bit "look at me I'm a footballer". Heard he's a bit of an arse hole anyway.

Got Robinho's autograph when he came in to my work once, but subsequently legged it in to a lift once everybody spotted who he was.

As for non-City, I work in a sports footwear shop, and Brian Jensen came in with his wife and two young sons and bought them both footy boots. Got his autograph and he seemed like a nice guy, very friendly. Fucking huge though, can see why they call him the beast. Carrick also came in to buy shoes for his kids, didn't say anything to him though! He's another massive guy, very towering. Always strikes me just how big footballers are.

 

[Banned Tosspot]

When I was ten I got hit by a car and broke my femur. I was stuck in Saint Mary's for a few months and my Grandparents who were in charge of a local supporter's branch arranged for my hero, Joe Corrigan to visit me.

I knew he was coming and was buzzing all day. Then, in he walked with Big Helen. I nearly shat myself, he was huge with hands like a goalkeeper's gloves ;). When you're that age it really blows your mind.

I met Shaun Goater after his last match for Southend. Me and a few other blues went down and saw them win their league that day and hung around long enough to get a 'meeting' with him with help from Spensor Prior. As everyone knows, Shaun is one of the greatest people you'll ever meet. A few year's earlier I lived next to Maine Road and saw him coming out and I just said 'Hi Shaun' and he replied with 'Alright mate', made my fuckin' Millennium.

I've met Stephen Ireland through Blue2112 a couple of times and even stayed the night at his home. I remember lying there laughing, thinking 'I bet Micah's been in this very bed'. When I first got there I ended up in his front room alone with him and was feeling a bit funny about it. Kept thinking 'that's Stephen Ireland' but within a few minutes it was just like being at anyone else's home and he's a good 'kid'. His girlfriend was really down to earth as well.

 

[2sheikhs]

Unfortunately I've met nearly all the current u**ted squad.I had to deliver some plant to their training ground.(My boss at the time,knew I was a blue and sent me there deliberately) Some of them walked past me as if they were too important to speak to someone poor.Others let on and smiled even though I was wearing a City baseball cap,but I just blanked them.The only regret I have now is ignoring Tevez.

 

[neverred76]

I once took Nani to a club in town in my cab. It was only when he got out that i realised it was a dwarf Sammy Davis Jnr lookalike.

 

[dorsey10]

i remember meeting nicky weaver, lee crooks and paul dickov at a robbie williams concerts years ago. weaver blew my sisters whistle... but the best one for me has to be a couple of weeks before the blackburn promotion. the Goat at platt lane, he told us to come inside whilst he signed some autographs because it was raining and i was going on about how i had scored the same amount of goals as him in the season.. 2 minutes later me and my dad were getting in the car and shaun comes running over whilst it was pissing down, opens the door shakes my hand and bets me a pound that he would scored more goals than me from then until the season ends.

He still owes me a quid ;)

 

[Chev Chelios]

met nicky weaver once back in the 90s, he was lying in a pool of his own sick outside fridays in northenden.

 

[trueblue gio]

I used to own a chippy in Peel Green with my dad, David White was a regular (Scollop barm & sausage for dog) I was a grown man of 37 but could not talk to him because he was my hero of that era, my dad would go on for ages discussing the latest news from SSN, he seemed ok and always came back but he only eats scollops, no chips (wierd).