What's your dullest anecdote about meeting a footballer?

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I once saw Terry Curran walking on the A61 northbound. I told him he had a really shit tache.
He was trying to locate the owner of a racing pigeon that had succumbed to tiredness and rested in his garden. I was hunting tree frogs that some idiot on Sheffield forum convinced me lived up there. The pigeon let out a huge belly laugh at the tache comment so he strangled it to death and left it by a drain.
I threw several punches at him but I'm no fighter and he outran me whilst I launched several more hay makers at him by vaulting some panel fencing just off swamp walk.
We've not met since but I'm told he got rid of the tach after this. Maybe someone could confirm?
 
I had my photo taken with Tony Kenworthy on a blades pre season opening day at a cost of 5 pounds. My mum asked "who's that scruffy looking bugger" and wouldn't put the photo in our living room. I thought he looked fashionable tbh.

Also met Keith Edwards as he came to train my under 12's Sunday league team. I even had my hair cut like his and he scored a goal past me that nearly ripped my arms off.

You said dull yeah Hal? 😂
 
"met" Ian Rush in Florida when I was 13 or 14 years old. When I say met, I use the term loosely. We were walking around the Epcot Centre (I think, well it was one of the theme parks) and I spotted him walking towards me with his family. I didn't want to disturb him and his family but as he came closer I nudged my mum and said "look, Ian Rush!"
He walked past, looked me up and down and sneered.
What a wanker! A simple wink or thumbs up wouldn't have hurt him. I wasn't hassling him.
To be fair he was walking round with a face like a slapped arse so probably wasn't in the best of moods anyway but still...…..Wanker!
 
Also saw jack o connel getting travel money in asda a couple of years ago

Seen Steven Gerrard a few times too
 
billyblademan said:
If I'm allowed a dull referee anecdote? I once saw Howard Webb in a Rotherham away end one Saturday afternoon, and asked him if the Millers were going to win. He half nodded in my direction then turned back to his mate. I still regale this cherished story to much merriment with my friends (both of them).
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Same guy, met him at Dynasty Chinese in Rotherham, he was getting a takeaway. I was eating in... Fun times
 
Met Craig Short in the queue at Airport Security at Newcastle Airport. I said Hi Craig he said Hi...
 
I used to get my hair cut by Rob Kozluks old best mate from school, He was a dirty piggy though
 
Now for a double whammy!
Played a charity football game with colleagues from my old employers in the UK a few years back. One of our guys was a referee too and his good mate was Howard Webb. He agreed to referee the game.
During the game I was in his ear all the time prompting him to ask me if I ever came up for air.
The double whammy is that I was marking BIG Leo Fortune-West who had agreed to play for the opposition. He was a bit of a Beast and used his size to his advantage. About 20 minutes into the 2nd half, he backed into me, shielding the ball. As I tried to sneak round the side of him, he smashed me in the face with his elbow, splitting my lip and busting my nose.
I drop to the ground, holding my face. Howard Webb waves play on and then comes over to me when he realises that I'm bleeding. Whilst being treated, he leans over and says "hopefully that will shut you up for 5 minutes and by the way....it was definitely a foul"
 
Picked Febian Brandy up in my taxi from training when he was on loan at the Millers. Tried to get some gossip out of him but he was very tight lipped.
 

Glyn Hodges left foot said:
I had a scuffle with Curtis woodhouse outside Republic nightclub, he was an apprentice at the time and seeing a lass i was mates with, he tried to strangle her for talking to someone so we laid into him, all got ejected, spilled outside then chased him but police intervened. Reyt little twat he was. She dumped him.
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Your name reminds me of a story , not mine a workmate years ago.
He knows absolutely squat about football so took it as gospel. He was away abroad and there was the usual Footy Tournament between nationalities at the hotel and he was just logged out when a bloke came up and asked if he wanted to make the numbers up, " Nah I'm not very good a football" .
" You don't have to be, they'll never get the ball off me".
So he agrees and they win the final , bottle of champers for each player.
He's telling me the tale and says " I can't remember his name but he was a footballer , Glyn somert, can't think of his second name but played for a team round here"
" Was it Glyn Hodges?".
" Yes, that's him, they couldn't touch him".
 
On holiday in Dubai when I was about 14. Was exploring the hotel grounds and walking past the tennis/ football courts when I saw a load of kids having a kick about. Stood at the gate watching for a minute when a tall foreign bloke walks over and says 'do you want to join in?', when I realised it was Gus Poyet.

Joined in the kick about and noticed a short gobby bloke trying to coach from the sideline, it was Dennis Wise who was Leeds manager at the time. His son who is now a pro but was about 6 at the time was running round like a headless chicken trying to join in.
 
I was at a "do" and met Emlyn Hughes (he was the speaker) he just went on for one hour and a half about him and how he knew most of the Royal family, especially Prince Charles - it was the most boring speak I have ever heard and the dullest person to talk to! - he left straight after he finished speaking and the next speaker said "he didn't think much of himself did he"

I know you shouldn't speak ill of the dead but the Op asked, so I'm just responding 😃
 
I knew Brian Clough fairly well - I'm not going to say anything more - it would take all day! and he called me "son"

My sisters daughter is married to Kevin Gage - no accounting for taste 🤣 - he's actually a good bloke, even if his commentaries are naff
 
Espania blade said:
I was at a "do" and met Emlyn Hughes (he was the speaker) he just went on for one hour and a half about him and how he knew most of the Royal family, especially Prince Charles - it was the most boring speak I have ever heard and the dullest person to talk to! - he left straight after he finished speaking and the next speaker said "he didn't think much of himself did he"

I know you shouldn't speak ill of the dead but the Op asked, so I'm just responding 😃
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My dad once did a gardening job next door to Emlyn Hughes. Now, my fatha has no interest in football whatsoever, but he knew exactly who EH was as he was a team captain on a Question of Sport at the time, and therefore was a fairly famous celeb. As you may remember, he was a right laugh on telly - a bit of a joker who had everyone in stitches.
Miserable fucker in real life though! He blanked my dad every single day when he tried to say good morning or strike up any sort of conversation.

I can believe the bit about him being up his own arse too - I played football against his son a few times, also called Emlyn. As if naming his son after himself wasn't bad enough, allegedly his daughter was named Emma Lynn!
 
tyke1889 said:
Picked Febian Brandy up in my taxi from training when he was on loan at the Millers. Tried to get some gossip out of him but he was very tight lipped.
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Shame he f***ing wasn't when he got sent off for dissent
 
Gazza once finished off the last bit of the donner that I'd left in the kebab shop just down from Henry's.
At the end of a boozy night me and my mate were sat in there - he'd finished his kebab, I'd left some of mine. A flash car pulls up outside, catching everyone's attention, then out gets Gazza with Chris Waddle. They both came into the kebab house and Gazza sees the queue, then says "I'm not fuckin standin in that queue I'm bastard starvin" or words to that effect! My mate goes "There's half a donner kebab here cocker, sit thissen down!" So he did - finished the bleedin lot! Pissed as a fart he was, fucking steaming! Then they went and got back into the shiny Merc or whatever it was outside (I'm not suggesting either of them were driving btw). It was about the time of the barber's chair incident so things were about to get messy for him. Top fella though, and Waddle weren't bad either to say he played for that lot.
 
I bumped into Dion Dublin (during his Coventry spell) at Baker Street tube station. He was lost on his way to Wembley. I was going that way so he came with me. Nice bloke.

Is that dull enough?
 

Balti Pie said:
I can believe the bit about him being up his own arse too - I played football against his son a few times, also called Emlyn. As if naming his son after himself wasn't bad enough, allegedly his daughter was named Emma Lynn!
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His daughter was indeed called Emma Lynn. I used to drink on occasion in the Har and Hounds in Dore when Emlyn Jr was working there, decent enough lad. I also did a management relief there about 20 years ago when Emlyn Sr was a customer, and he was a right pompous twat. So far up his own arse he could see what he’d had for lunch.
 
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