What's your dullest anecdote about meeting a footballer?

[Northyorksblade]

Possibly

I possibly saw you too.

 

[BalticBlade]

I've just seen Ivo Grbic walking down Dore Road.

 

[Billyblade]

I've just seen Ivo Grbic walking down Dore Road.

He's walking because he went to catch a bus but dropped it...

Badum Tish!

 

[BalticBlade]

He's walking because he went to catch a bus but dropped it...

Badum Tish!

Very good! I did wonder why he wasn't at training though.

 

[Champagneblade]

Very good! I did wonder why he wasn't at training though.

He doesn’t need training.

They simply don’t know where to start with him!

Hopefully he was coming back from the Job Centre, seeking alternative careers.

 

[Silent Blade]

Very good! I did wonder why he wasn't at training though.

We don't train on Wednesdays unless we have a midweek match. You are no longer ITK!

 

[BalticBlade]

We don't train on Wednesdays unless we have a midweek match. You are no longer ITK!

That's no doubt down to PA cutting costs. Maybe if we trained on a Wednesday the players might be fitter and better.

 

[Sean Thornton]

That's no doubt down to PA cutting costs. Maybe if we trained on a Wednesday the players might be fitter and better.

No doubt. But the important thing is you didn’t know!

 

[Sean Thornton]

You were 5 and on your dad's shoulders? Fuck me, is your dad in the WWE

He was a pain in the neck even then it seems.

 

[Birdwell Blade]

Saw Hecky the other day in Dodworth. Walked past a house window I was working on. Window was open so had a quick chat…

“Eyup Paul how are you?”
“Sound cheers, and you?”
“Good thanks. Thanks for everything you did for the Blades. Good luck with the next job.”
“Thanks.”

The end.

 

[Northyorksblade]

Saw Hecky the other day in Dodworth. Walked past a house window I was working on. Window was open so had a quick chat…

“Eyup Paul how are you?”
“Sound cheers, and you?”
“Good thanks. Thanks for everything you did for the Blades. Good luck with the next job.”
“Thanks.”

The end.

That's not dull. Wrong thread.

 

[Birdwell Blade]

That's not dull. Wrong thread.

I tried to make it sound duller than it was. It was nice to see him.

 

[Maurice Maurice]

Saw Hecky the other day in Dodworth. Walked past a house window I was working on. Window was open so had a quick chat…

“Eyup Paul how are you?”
“Sound cheers, and you?”
“Good thanks. Thanks for everything you did for the Blades. Good luck with the next job.”
“Thanks.”

The end.

Can't have been him, he'd have started with 'Listen......'

 

[BalticBlade]

No doubt. But the important thing is you didn’t know!

I'm not really interested in the minutiae.

 

[Greasy Chap Butty]

That's no doubt down to PA cutting costs. Maybe if we trained on a Wednesday the players might be fitter and better.

My mate told me everybody at the club knows we don't train Wednesday to reduce the risk of more injuries.

 

[Greasy Chap Butty]

I'm not really interested in the minutiae.

What's Sean cock got to do wi it?

 

[BalticBlade]

My mate told me everybody at the club knows we don't train Wednesday to reduce the risk of more injuries.

I mean, we play as if we don't train on any day of the week.

 

[fifty shades of blade]

While at King Teds school in the 80s I looked over the wall of the upper school grounds and saw Lee Chapman parking his courtesy car (like footballers had in those days "Lee Chapman drives with TC Harrison") he got out and posted a letter into a letter box. He then got back into his car and drove off. Zzzzz

 

[Uganda Blade]

After a game in the early noughties, I left the BLUT and followed my usual route up Bramall Lane and left on to Cherry Street.
I had to halt as a car came out of the car park.
Keith Curle was driving while lighting up a ciggie.
I thought, "Keith Curle's a smoker. I wonder if Warnock knows?"

 

[Le Cynique]

After a game in the early noughties, I left the BLUT and followed my usual route up Bramall Lane and left on to Cherry Street.
I had to halt as a car came out of the car park.
Keith Curle was driving while lighting up a ciggie.
I thought, "Keith Curle's a smoker. I wonder if Warnock knows?"

Keeeeeeef was on about sixty a day wasn’t he?

 

[Rochdaleblade]

While at King Teds school in the 80s I looked over the wall of the upper school grounds and saw Lee Chapman parking his courtesy car (like footballers had in those days "Lee Chapman drives with TC Harrison") he got out and posted a letter into a letter box. He then got back into his car and drove off. Zzzzz

Probably a transfer request.

 

[Northyorksblade]

After a game in the early noughties, I left the BLUT and followed my usual route up Bramall Lane and left on to Cherry Street.
I had to halt as a car came out of the car park.
Keith Curle was driving while lighting up a ciggie.
I thought, "Keith Curle's a smoker. I wonder if Warnock knows?"

Happened to be at a bar in Harrogate at the same time as him while he has at United. I greeted him briefly and politely. He was quite rude to me.

 

[FulwoodBlades]

Gus Hamer got in a lift with me in a hotel I was staying in the morning of a match. I said "good luck today. ... No, it is not luck is it", He said "No it is skill". I said "and tactics".

And he scored that afternoon using his skills ..... lol

 

[RedandWhite]

I once saw George Baldock at the entrance to town hall after registering my daughter, I was so tempted to ask for a picture of them both, but I thought being too close to his golden tanned thighs the Mrs would start getting ideas.

I once waved at Lee Williamson, he never waved back

 

[Bell4]

I once saw Jane Macdonald waiting for a train at Kings Cross

She didn’t see me

 

[blade62]

travelling back to Sheffield from match at Barnsley on a very full train Del Geary kindly offered me his seat. That was kind wasn’t it

 

[BelgianBlade]

Just been to walk the dog in Endcliffe Park and saw Danny Röhl out running.

Full Wednesday training kit on, smug smile on his face, as if he was on some kind of victory parade.

Tosser.

 

[MiserableBlader]

Refereed Martin Keowns lad(s?) twice. Once scheduled game, once several games so presumably cup finals.

Never spoke to him or acknowledged him.
He appeared to be as I heard him say the other day.
Very open to approach but keep away and don't bother him as me.

Is that boring enough

 

[Gaini Blade]

Refereed Martin Keowns lad(s?) twice. Once scheduled game, once several games so presumably cup finals.

Never spoke to him or acknowledged him.
He appeared to be as I heard him say the other day.
Very open to approach but keep away and don't bother him as me.

Is that boring enough

Not really.

 

[YorkBlade]

Refereed Martin Keowns lad(s?) twice. Once scheduled game, once several games so presumably cup finals.

Never spoke to him or acknowledged him.
He appeared to be as I heard him say the other day.
Very open to approach but keep away and don't bother him as me.

Is that boring enough

I can relate to this as I refereed David Batty's 2 lads twice. This was in a tournament in Tadcaster. I never spoke to their Dad.

The team’s coach was constantly saying the 2 lads full names...just so everybody there knew who they were.
Odd behaviour.