Bumping in to ex Blades

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BigBed said:
See Kevin Gage regularly in Dronfield, used to have the green dragon pub, think he's got the vic now?
Carl Bradshaw lives at the top end of Killamarsh I believe, in a house he built.
And I think Tony Currie lives, or used to live, in our old house in Killamarsh.
Also, not sure if this counts, but often see Danny Wilson on Brampton in Chesterfield.
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Gage owns the Manor House in Dronfield
 



Bumped into Deano on Hill Street once. It was a matchday and he was legging it towards London Rd. It was a bit surreal...
 
I see Del Geary in the Costa Coffee at the Hillsborough tram stop semi-frequently. He calls in for a drink and to make a few phone calls most mornings it seems, and I clock him when I'm waiting for the tram on the occasions i CBA to drive to the station.

Normally wearing full Blades training gear too, and around Hillsborough! Legend.

Nearly ran him over once on Eccy Road too. He was getting out of his Range Rover and almost stepped out right in front of me. He looked quite amusing - wee tiny Irish fella climbing down out of his enormous feckin' Rangey!
 
carthesis said:
I see Del Geary in the Costa Coffee at the Hillsborough tram stop semi-frequently. He calls in for a drink and to make a few phone calls most mornings it seems, and I clock him when I'm waiting for the tram on the occasions i CBA to drive to the station.

Normally wearing full Blades training gear too, and around Hillsborough! Legend.

Nearly ran him over once on Eccy Road too. He was getting out of his Range Rover and almost stepped out right in front of me. He looked quite amusing - wee tiny Irish fella climbing down out of his enormous feckin' Rangey!
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I have had pre-match drinks with Dane Whitehouse on a couple of occasions, when a group of us met up with mutual friends. He seems a genuine, down to earth guy.

I see Jack Lester nearly every week, as his kids and my kids go to the same after school club. He is also a sound, down to earth guy who enjoys a chat, but I tend not to really talk much about United with him.
 
On't Tube to Wembley for the 3rd defeat to Burnley in the 08/09 season and guy sat opposite me made the 3-0 wolves defeat in the previous play off final spring to mind but I couldn't think why.

Short mixed race fellow, he had his coat on his lap and it had the words Mark Rankine on the label, So I asked him if he was going to the game, he seemed happy to be recognised (it was the name on the coat that gave him away as i don't really remember him playing and I'm pretty sure he was no where to be seen in the middle of the park at the millennium stadium).

He seemed nice enough but still not forgiven him for allowing himself to be selected ahead of McCall, he should have told Warnock he was injured or even better told him he was an awful footballer and I think our curse of play off finals might not be what it is today!

To make matters worse he told me he was the agent for Walker and Naughton, couple of days after losing to Burnley we had sold them to Spurs for 10 million pounds...

I feel we lay too much of the blame of the clubs failures on the board or certain managers.... I blame the last 7 years on Mark Rankine!
 
ShropshireBlade said:
Had a day out in Blackpool on saturday and bumped into Martyn Woolford in Sainsbury's, all dressed in his Fleetwood Town gear, thought it was best not to say too much....
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Did anyone buy him ?

saw Bradders at his brothers last week ,we all moaned about the last man standing we do ,because were all out of it.
 
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botoble said:
On't Tube to Wembley for the 3rd defeat to Burnley in the 08/09 season and guy sat opposite me made the 3-0 wolves defeat in the previous play off final spring to mind but I couldn't think why.

Short mixed race fellow, he had his coat on his lap and it had the words Mark Rankine on the label, So I asked him if he was going to the game, he seemed happy to be recognised (it was the name on the coat that gave him away as i don't really remember him playing and I'm pretty sure he was no where to be seen in the middle of the park at the millennium stadium).

He seemed nice enough but still not forgiven him for allowing himself to be selected ahead of McCall, he should have told Warnock he was injured or even better told him he was an awful footballer and I think our curse of play off finals might not be what it is today!

To make matters worse he told me he was the agent for Walker and Naughton, couple of days after losing to Burnley we had sold them to Spurs for 10 million pounds...

I feel we lay too much of the blame of the clubs failures on the board or certain managers.... I blame the last 7 years on Mark Rankine!
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Wasn't McCall coming back from an injury ? I'm sure Warnock put him on in the second half of the final, too late then though... :(
 
Doing a bit of fishing down the local canal in Leicestershire with my boys last November, bitter cold day, anyway, a bloke shuffles past walking his pooch wearing a Sligo Rovers jacket....instantly recognised him as our ex-manager Micky Adams....he was happy to stop and have a chat and a photo with the boys...really nice bloke....he was absolutely genuinely gutted about his short tenure at the Lane, broke his heart to take his beloved Blades down!
 



Laurent D'Jaffo in Ayia Napa,
Petr Katchuoro upon the crapper
 
The Crab said:
Keith Curle in Meadowhell a few weeks ago.
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Saw him in The Prince of Wales (Ecclesall Road) a couple of years ago, to be fair my Wednesday mate recognised him first and I wasn't too bothered about talking which was just as well as this woman was trying to impress him with her tales of athletic prowess and nobody else was allowed to go near him. She was clearly a fraud and KC didn't seem too impressed either.
 
Played alongside Carl Bradshaw as he was finishing his lower league career and I was trying to start one. He'd dropped to centre half then and loved telling the opposition strikers how much Norwich paid for him in his younger days! Still a class above most on the pitch and read the game very well, bit of a knob though and he was a hero of mine as a youngster, gave it the "big I am" despite driving round in a 6 year old tranny van and playing for a couple of hundred quid a week in the (then) Unibond.
 
I bumped into Marc McNulty but only said Hello rather than what I would have liked to say to him.

Also saw Chris Morgan in Hillsborough a few months ago.
 
8lade said:
Saw him in The Prince of Wales (Ecclesall Road) a couple of years ago, to be fair my Wednesday mate recognised him first and I wasn't too bothered about talking which was just as well as this woman was trying to impress him with her tales of athletic prowess and nobody else was allowed to go near him. She was clearly a fraud and KC didn't seem too impressed either.
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Hmmm, pretentious twats in "Club POW", who'd'a'thought it?
 
Not a blade, but I played cricket for my team last year and Nigel Pearson happened to be playing for the opposition (Holmesfield) with his son. It was just after he had been sacked by Leicester from memory. I also see him quite regularly in the Rising Sun, Fulwood.

The other interesting one is Stephen Quinn. His house number is the same as my parents and they both live on adjacent roads. My parents used to regularly get pizza deliveries to their house which were for Quinny. The guy still lives locally.
 
While working in Doncaster a few years ago the labourer was John cutbush. He seemed a little embarrassed to be recognised. Last year turned up on a job and there was gobby Scouse painter. Turned out to be Paul Beesley I
talked about the blades with him , he seemed to be still very fond of us. Also talked about his lad who was at chesterfield,
 
I once saw the whole squad having a chilled walk along the beach here in Sunderland. I was 13 and loving it so much. while I was carrying the weekly shop from morrisons I shouted 'come on you blades!' at the top of my voice.

4 hours (ish) later we lost 3-0.......
 
snootyfenooty said:
TC was stood outside the ticket office a couple of home games ago when I went to buy my tickets. I went week at the knees and my throat dried up. Awestruck. And I'm sixty fucking four.
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See him most weeks in our Asda ,or walking the dog at Bluebell wood ,just don't get talking to him ,he can go on a bit my little un has given me many a scarboro warning
 
Bladey McBladeface said:
Not a blade, but I played cricket for my team last year and Nigel Pearson happened to be playing for the opposition (Holmesfield) with his son. It was just after he had been sacked by Leicester from memory. I also see him quite regularly in the Rising Sun, Fulwood.

The other interesting one is Stephen Quinn. His house number is the same as my parents and they both live on adjacent roads. My parents used to regularly get pizza deliveries to their house which were for Quinny. The guy still lives locally.
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Was his Pizza a Hawaiian?
 



Santos in Murdocks on Division St about 18 months ago, a few blades gave him a chant, I asked him if he really wanted to hurt Johnson with THAT tackle, his response in a strong French accent was "of course".
 
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