FenwayFrank 2,461 Posted January 16 10 hours ago, JayNCFC said: Tim Krul having dinner, whilst I having dinner with my wife at Park Farm If you call it dinner you're too posh for this forum 😉 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
......and Smith must score. 1,355 Posted January 16 8 minutes ago, FenwayFrank said: If you call it dinner you're too posh for this forum 😉 Please, please someone come on here and say they had supper. We need a bit of cheering up. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JayNCFC 14 Posted January 16 37 minutes ago, FenwayFrank said: If you call it dinner you're too posh for this forum 😉 What else could it be called? 😂 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Greavsy 2,418 Posted January 16 14 minutes ago, JayNCFC said: What else could it be called? 😂 It's not just dinner, it's M&S dinner...... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cornish sam 960 Posted January 16 (edited) 21 minutes ago, JayNCFC said: What else could it be called? 😂 Tea Edited January 16 by cornish sam 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nuff Said 5,156 Posted January 16 1 hour ago, FenwayFrank said: If you call it dinner you're too posh for this forum 😉 Or from up North and you mean lunch. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nuff Said 5,156 Posted January 16 Which reminds me, we used to have an office near Birmingham International airport so would sometimes walk to the M and S in the terminal for a lunch-time (not dinner) sandwich. I once saw the whole Stoke team in matching shell suits who had obviously just got off a plane from a pre-season trip, including Peter Crouch. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Midlands Yellow 4,031 Posted January 16 (edited) Stood in between Collymore and Rooney browsing through top shelf mags at WHSmiths years ago. Edited January 16 by Midlands Yellow Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Barry Brockes 147 Posted January 16 Many years ago I was running a course at a hotel in the Coventry/Warwick area. Sunderland were staying there in advance of playing Coventry that evening. Whilst the players were having an afternoon kip, Mick McCarthy, their manager at the time, was in the lounge having a cuppa. Rather cheekily I joined him as he was not occupied on anything and we started chatting footie talk. Have to say he was a top bloke, down to earth and really appreciative of City as a club. I suspect that changed a few years later! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mr Angry 1,570 Posted January 16 45 minutes ago, Midlands Yellow said: Stood in between Collymore and Rooney browsing through top shelf mags at WHSmiths years years ago. Dogging Monthly and Sexy Grannies Review? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Midlands Yellow 4,031 Posted January 16 9 minutes ago, Mr Angry said: Dogging Monthly and Sexy Grannies Review? Ah, you were in the line too. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shefcanary 2,441 Posted January 16 1 hour ago, Nuff Said said: Which reminds me, we used to have an office near Birmingham International airport so would sometimes walk to the M and S in the terminal for a lunch-time (not dinner) sandwich. I once saw the whole Stoke team in matching shell suits who had obviously just got off a plane from a pre-season trip, including Peter Crouch. Ah, that reminds me of the time the team were playing at either Sheffield United or Rotherham back in the Lambert days. They were staying at what was a very posh hotel around the corner from my house before the match. I was sitting in my front room in my dressing gown eating my breakfast nursing a hangover when I saw Lambert walking past, followed closely behind by the whole squad and coaches, on post breakfast constitutional and easy work out. Totally lost it running out of my house in just my dressing gown to wish them all the best for later that afternoon. Yep, I did get some very strange looks and quite a few comments from them! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
......and Smith must score. 1,355 Posted January 16 1 hour ago, Midlands Yellow said: Stood in between Collymore and Rooney browsing through top shelf mags at WHSmiths years years ago. Didn’t think Rooney could reach those. Did Collymore give him a leg up ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mr Angry 1,570 Posted January 16 1 hour ago, cornish sam said: Tea No, that’s tiffin. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hogesar 9,717 Posted January 16 (edited) Bit of a random one, but some of my business partners apartments get rented by Norwich footballers. One of them was Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe. Nice bloke but kept saying a king-size bed was too small for him. Out of curiosity and to meet the guy we came over to see what he meant. We knocked and he called for us to come in. He had prepped himself, laying in his bed, with his feet dangling off the end of the bed in order to provide a live demonstration to us. "See! My feet get cold!" He was tall, to be fair. Edited January 16 by hogesar Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nuff Said 5,156 Posted January 16 45 minutes ago, hogesar said: Bit of a random one, but some of my business partners apartments get rented by Norwich footballers. One of them was Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe. Nice bloke but kept saying a king-size bed was too small for him. Out of curiosity and to meet the guy we came over to see what he meant. We knocked and he called for us to come in. He had prepped himself, laying in his bed, with his feet dangling off the end of the bed in order to provide a live demonstration to us. "See! My feet get cold!" He was tall, to be fair. I’m struggling to work out why you needed to see him lying on a bed to understand why it was too small for him? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hogesar 9,717 Posted January 16 3 minutes ago, Nuff Said said: I’m struggling to work out why you needed to see him lying on a bed to understand why it was too small for him? Haha, I didn't. I should add more context. He'd told the agent he was too big for any of the beds and could we supply another as he wasn't sure where to go to get one for himself. We'd only actually visited at the time to take measurements and remove some pieces of art he didn't like. So we weren't expecting him to be in the bed demonstrating! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nuff Said 5,156 Posted January 16 1 minute ago, hogesar said: Haha, I didn't. I should add more context. He'd told the agent he was too big for any of the beds and could we supply another as he wasn't sure where to go to get one for himself. We'd only actually visited at the time to take measurements and remove some pieces of art he didn't like. So we weren't expecting him to be in the bed demonstrating! I used to say I was 6’2” at stretch but have to admit age has made 6 1 more accurate. But a king size bed has always been fine, so not sure what his problem was. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hogesar 9,717 Posted January 16 2 minutes ago, Nuff Said said: I used to say I was 6’2” at stretch but have to admit age has made 6 1 more accurate. But a king size bed has always been fine, so not sure what his problem was. The problem was he liked his head to rest about 2 feet away from the headboard! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Yobocop 1,105 Posted January 16 Depends on what you mean as mundane as in my previous life I worked for a league one football club and did several little jobs for the players there at the time including taxing their cars, sorting out birthday cakes for relatives etc I also know Leon Barnett quite well who has helped me tremendously with coaching my ladies football team, also jamie stephens who has helped with my goalkeepers, he was on the books at Liverpool but played at Barnet. I’ve met John Still once or twice when his team trained with us at a football centre I worked at when the weather wasn’t so good Barry fry is possibly my best and favourite story when I worked at the league one club walked straight into their academy and said I love this, want one of these at Peterborough, I walked out to watch the game and fry was walking around the pitch with his shirt off topless, it was a hot day lol 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nu_matik 167 Posted January 16 Time to tell the Sean Dyche shaving topless into a bin story @BobLoz3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Midlands Yellow 4,031 Posted January 16 2 hours ago, ......and Smith must score. said: Didn’t think Rooney could reach those. Did Collymore give him a leg up ? He perched him up without hands. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Let's All Have a Disco 2 Posted January 16 Steve Bruce nearly ran me over in Tombland one Saturday night - gave me daggers through the windscreen for making him brake so hard...to be fair, it was my fault for running out in front of him. Many, many moons ago, me & my Dad watched George Best and the Swedish Miss World playing tennis in Majorca Met a very pissed off Martin Skrtl at my front door after he'd dropped off a Liverpool Academy player we were looking after. It had been snowing and Skrtl had given the lad a lift (both from that part of the world) and Skrtl had skidded in the snow and ploughed his Bentley into a tree - the front was a right mess...he asked to use our phone to arrange recovery etc then went back outside and sat in the car until the breakdown van arrived! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mr Apples 1,325 Posted January 16 A few years ago, I walked past Kevin Drinkell leaving the Sainsbury's store in Stirling. 🤩🤣 Apples Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Raptor 1,230 Posted January 16 Some great posts on here! I started liking them all but it stopped me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rock bus 854 Posted January 16 Stood behind Stan Collymore at v festival. Had his arms around two very attractive women! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grando 267 Posted January 16 I saw Mike Phelan loading a VHS player that he’d just bought in Dixons onto the back seat of a red Montego. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mason 47 1,391 Posted January 17 Marc Edworthy is from the same area as my mum and played football for a tiny team there before his professional break. Saw him a few times in a local establishment and every morning absolutely hammering along the beach. You sometimes forget how fast pro footballers can be. Much more recently I happened to be at Attleborough Sundays v Attleborough u18s in a pre season friendly and eventually realised the very vocal (and unimpressed) chap stood next to me was Grant Holt. He's shorter than you think. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BobLoz3 494 Posted January 17 18 hours ago, nu_matik said: Time to tell the Sean Dyche shaving topless into a bin story @BobLoz3 Ok if I must... A guy who used to cut my hair was in the Watford youth team. He got called into the managers office one day and when he got in there, he saw Dyche, stark b011ock naked, shaving his head into a bin. Dyche just turned round, still nude, and continued his conversation like nothing was happening 😂 1 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nuff Said 5,156 Posted January 17 1 hour ago, BobLoz3 said: Ok if I must... A guy who used to cut my hair was in the Watford youth team. He got called into the managers office one day and when he got in there, he saw Dyche, stark b011ock naked, shaving his head into a bin. Dyche just turned round, still nude, and continued his conversation like nothing was happening 😂 I want to hit “like” but feel it doesn’t quite correctly describe my reaction to reading this. But thanks for recounting the story (I think). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
