What's your dullest anecdote about meeting a footballer?

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bibbity bobbity boo said:
Met Marlon Dingle buying football boots at Sports Direct in Harrogate, he said his name was really Mark not Marlon, very confusing.
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Similar. Walking through Harrogate many moons ago, I saw this person I thought I knew and said 'Hello mate, how's it going?' He just nodded back and I realised later it was Ian Sharrock from Emmerdale.
You have to be careful in Harrogate, it's full of Emmerdale cast, football managers and footballers.
 
Birthday lunch in the George at Hathersage and saw Our Billy asked him if I could have a pic with him he just nodded posed and then left
 
I used to run GT news Woodseats in the 90's, quite a few Blades players & staff used to come in, one Sat night new signing Doug Hodgson came in & asked if there was a local sports paper,I duly introduced him to the green'un, he asked if I would save every copy for him to send home to his Dad on Oz,used to call in every Sunday to pick them up, one day he said he'd brought his mate to meet me, as he was over from Oz having a trial with the Blades- it was Kevin Muscat, the club rented a house for Dougie on Nettleham Rd behind the police station which had no bath or shower,& he had no car so I used to take him up to Rowlinson sports centre at Meadowhead 3 times a week for a shower,unbelievable I know, what a top lad he was, UTB
 
El Volví said:
Saw Brian Deane in a cafe in Harrogate.
I said "nice coffee in here Brian"
He said "not bad"


These are all true!
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A couple of years ago Brian Deane was in our carriage on the Leeds to London train. He was on his phone the whole journey, though he was too far away to hear what he was saying.
 
I was driving back from a Blades game at QPR, god knows what year but some time back, and Clarke Carlisle was filling up at the pump next to me and started a conversation with me (I was in a Blades shirt).

Shocked me when a few years later he tried to kill himself.
 
El Volví said:
Sat on a flight next to Alan Shearer (middle seat empty) and he just stared out of the window.
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I was in first class on a train to London from Donny once, and Shearer was with his family on the adjacent table.
This was not long after he retired and all I remember thinking was that his head looked like a hallway carpet (well worn, uneven, and thinning!).

My GF at the time was a Latvian belly dancer, and I'm sure he was checking her out, felt like asking him if he wanted to swap for an evening 😂
 
Sportbilly said:
I was in first class on a train to London from Donny once, and Shearer was with his family on the adjacent table.
This was not long after he retired and all I remember thinking was that his head looked like a hallway carpet (well worn, uneven, and thinning!).

My GF at the time was a Latvian belly dancer, and I'm sure he was checking her out, felt like asking him if he wanted to swap for an evening 😂
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If I’m totally honest.. the Latvian belly dancer is more interesting than the rudimental Geordie striker element of this post
 
Chazzer said:
A couple of years ago Brian Deane was in our carriage on the Leeds to London train. He was on his phone the whole journey, though he was too far away to hear what he was saying.
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Apparently, celebs often pretend to be on the phone in public in order to avoid being harangued in public by plebs like you and me, that’s why you couldn’t hear him.

Your consolation should be that by the time you got to London, Deano had an aching arm, serves him right 🙂
 

Trigger Blade said:
Apparently, celebs often pretend to be on the phone in public in order to avoid being harangued in public by plebs like you and me, that’s why you couldn’t hear him.

Your consolation should be that by the time you got to London, Deano had an aching arm, serves him right 🙂
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An aching arm, was Deano tossing his turkey under the table or something?!
 
Northyorksblade said:
Similar. Walking through Harrogate many moons ago, I saw this person I thought I knew and said 'Hello mate, how's it going?' He just nodded back and I realised later it was Ian Sharrock from Emmerdale.
You have to be careful in Harrogate, it's full of Emmerdale cast, football managers and footballers.
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I must walk round Harrogate with my eyes closed! A few months ago I was on the train to leeds and Brian Deane got on at Weeton-but he sat in another carriage
 
Once on plane from Malaga sitting directly behind Freddie Trueman and his wife. They never spoke a word all journey and he didnt spend a penny on any drinks or food.
At Manchester Airport, people coming towards us were shouting "Hiya Freddie" as though they were busom buddies. He totally blanked everyone and never smiled.
He was such a miserable, tight arsed git of a stereotypical Yorkshireman, exactly as I expected that he would be. It somehow made me feel better knowing that I was right.
 
Trigger Blade said:
Apparently, celebs often pretend to be on the phone in public in order to avoid being harangued in public by plebs like you and me, that’s why you couldn’t hear him.

Your consolation should be that by the time you got to London, Deano had an aching arm, serves him right 🙂
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That's exactly what Shearer did when the plane landed!
 
Northyorksblade said:
Similar. Walking through Harrogate many moons ago, I saw this person I thought I knew and said 'Hello mate, how's it going?' He just nodded back and I realised later it was Ian Sharrock from Emmerdale.
You have to be careful in Harrogate, it's full of Emmerdale cast, football managers and footballers.
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Gareth Southgate lives in Harrogate.
 
Chazzer said:
A couple of years ago Brian Deane was in our carriage on the Leeds to London train. He was on his phone the whole journey, though he was too far away to hear what he was saying.
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Eez gone daan in maa estimaaashun ee az tonaaht. 🤣
 

One day when I was managing the bookies at Low Edges, Ted Helmsley (who had his own betting shop at the time) came to collect his Greyform from me one morning because it had been left with us by mistake.

When I was working in Durham, there used to be an old bloke in the car park each morning doing physical exercises and twatting a football off any available wall. I was moaning about him one day and the staff told me that he used to be a footballer, it was John Burridge.
 
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