Ex-players you don't expect to bump into

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Ex-players you don't expect to bump into

Post by TKIZ! » Wed Jul 03, 2013 7:26 pm

Getting off the train yesterday in the hills of the Peak District yesterday, Scott Sellars.

I had to speak to him, didn't realise he was Head of Academy at Citeh. Very complimentary about Wanderers

Made of tit of myself though as I let out a bit of a girly laugh when he made a joke about Colin Todd
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Post by bobo the clown » Wed Jul 03, 2013 7:35 pm

Tell us the joke TK & we can all do one.
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Post by TKIZ! » Wed Jul 03, 2013 7:40 pm

bobo the clown wrote:Tell us the joke TK & we can all do one.
I wish I could remember it word for word but it was mainly about how hungover at training most of that team was and how Todd used to react
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Post by bobo the clown » Wed Jul 03, 2013 7:44 pm

TKIZ! wrote:
bobo the clown wrote:Tell us the joke TK & we can all do one.
I wish I could remember it word for word but it was mainly about how hungover at training most of that team was and how Todd used to react
Ah, the good old days.
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Post by BWFC_Insane » Wed Jul 03, 2013 7:51 pm

TKIZ! wrote:
bobo the clown wrote:Tell us the joke TK & we can all do one.
I wish I could remember it word for word but it was mainly about how hungover at training most of that team was and how Todd used to react
How did he react? By standing on the side looking like a lost little boy fiddling with his hands?

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Post by officer_dibble » Wed Jul 03, 2013 7:52 pm

Not a player but i bumped into mike riley once a couple of years ago. Had run through kicking the sh*t out of the weasel faced bastard in my head many a time but only stopped and stared when i recognised him luckily!

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Post by bobo the clown » Wed Jul 03, 2013 8:18 pm

officer_dibble wrote:Not a player but i bumped into mike riley once a couple of years ago. Had run through kicking the sh*t out of the weasel faced bastard in my head many a time but only stopped and stared when i recognised him luckily!
Wus.

Now, if it had been Barry Knight .....
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Post by LeverEnd » Wed Jul 03, 2013 8:21 pm

BWFC_Insane wrote:
TKIZ! wrote:
bobo the clown wrote:Tell us the joke TK & we can all do one.
I wish I could remember it word for word but it was mainly about how hungover at training most of that team was and how Todd used to react
How did he react? By standing on the side looking like a lost little boy fiddling with his hands?
Or slumped forward head in hands - like for most the game on the bench at chelsea that fateful day in '98?
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Re: Ex-players you don't expect to bump into

Post by Andy Waller » Thu Jul 04, 2013 8:15 am

I saw Mark Winstanley in M&S in Bolton Town Centre.
What a hero, What a man...... Ooooh, what a bad foul...

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Post by Abdoulaye's Twin » Thu Jul 04, 2013 9:11 am

Not an ex player at the time and not a Wanderer either. In my studenty days I worked in retail and flogged Nev Southall a car stereo or something. Nice fella and a reet scruffy bastard.

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Post by bobo the clown » Thu Jul 04, 2013 9:14 am

I met Mark Patterson in the bogs in Bolton Town Hall.

We didn't shake hands.
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Post by Andy Waller » Thu Jul 04, 2013 11:44 am

bobo the clown wrote:I met Mark Patterson in the bogs in Bolton Town Hall.

We didn't shake hands.
Did he answer your classified advert then?
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Post by SmokinFrazier » Thu Jul 04, 2013 12:00 pm

I saw Michael Johansen at the dentists on Silverwell Street years ago. There's also a parking meter near there and a year or two ago, I saw Jussi using it. He dropped a coin which I thought was mildly amusing.

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Post by si2008 » Thu Jul 04, 2013 12:59 pm

met Owen Coyle in the men arena car park..while he and his Mrs where attending a concert

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Post by plymouth wanderer » Thu Jul 04, 2013 2:25 pm

About 15 years ago me and a mate stayed late after an Argyle match on the way back home we cut through the car park when we saw a man acting strange walking up and down the car park (it was pitch black)

As soon as he saw us he made a bee line straight for us and asked us if we had seen a black Mercedes Benz anywhere to which we replied no i remember saying to my mate he looks familiar but was hard to make out in the dead of night

Two days later we saw in the paper that Barry Fry's Merc had been stolen outside home park

Not nice but still this day it tickles me when i think about it
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Post by Dave Sutton's barnet » Thu Jul 04, 2013 2:31 pm

Heh! And of course conforms to the thread title...

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Post by Lord Kangana » Thu Jul 04, 2013 2:39 pm

In Fanny's (the pub not the fnar) a few years ago, I reached for the door handle going in to the toilets, which moved leaving me grasping at thin air and overbalanced. This is normally mildly embarrassing enough, but the door-snatcher was none other than Peter Reid. So not only did I overbalance into his path, but then stared gormlessly at him as my brain (in an already befuddled state) tried to process why I knew the face. He looked at me like I was a proper notright as he shuffled sideways past me, which in fairness to him, I was probably doing a fairly passable impression of.
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Post by bobo the clown » Thu Jul 04, 2013 2:44 pm

Lord Kangana wrote:In Fanny's (the pub not the fnar) a few years ago, I reached for the door handle going in to the toilets, which moved leaving me grasping at thin air and overbalanced. This is normally mildly embarrassing enough, but the door-snatcher was none other than Peter Reid. So not only did I overbalance into his path, but then stared gormlessly at him as my brain (in an already befuddled state) tried to process why I knew the face. He looked at me like I was a proper notright as he shuffled sideways past me, which in fairness to him, I was probably doing a fairly passable impression of.
Fanny up'steps in Heaton ? Markland Hill ... what a fine establishment that was in my youth.
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Post by Lord Kangana » Thu Jul 04, 2013 2:58 pm

Yeah, Victoria inn or something is the real name isn't it? I seldom 9very seldom) go in there, but an ex of mine used to like it and lived up there. Not really my cup of tea.
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Post by bobo the clown » Thu Jul 04, 2013 3:36 pm

Lord Kangana wrote:Yeah, Victoria inn or something is the real name isn't it? I seldom 9very seldom) go in there, but an ex of mine used to like it and lived up there. Not really my cup of tea.
Yep ... the Victoria.

I expect I'd be 3x the average age these days.
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