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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Perthvillan on January 29, 2017, 09:27:10 AM
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The wife was watching the start of Aussie Open tennis men final Federer v Nadal and Nigel Kennedy was performing in pre match entertainment. He was doing his usual Jimi Hendrix treatment of The Four Seasons and wearing a Villa Champions of Europe T shirt under his jacket.
I met him once at half time in the visitors end at the old Upton Park probably ten years ago. It was good to see him there as he could probably have got a seat in the Director's Box. A real celebrity fan.
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Yes, I saw that too, warms the cockles of your heart.
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I had a piss next to Nigel in a pub on Fulham high street a few years ago, he was sound and not at all like I imagined.
Has any other reader pissed next to a minor celebrity?
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I had a piss next to Nigel in a pub on Fulham high street a few years ago, he was sound and not at all like I imagined.
Has any other reader pissed next to a minor celebrity?
I had a piss next to him at the same match mentioned in the OP
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Has any other reader pissed next to a minor celebrity?
Stirling Moss at the Goodwood Festival of Speed several years ago.
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Has any other reader pissed next to a minor celebrity?
Benjamin Zephaniah, half time at Upton Park.
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A truly memorable day for me was buying a drink with him in 87-88, an away game but cant remember which.
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Has any other reader pissed next to a minor celebrity?
Yes Lennart Johansson ex UEFA President at the Adlon hotel in Berlin during the 2006 world cup and afterwards we shook hands (post washing just in case anyone asks)
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My brother had a piss next to Nigel at a "Player of the Year" night in the early 90s. Cue lots of "did he have a fiddle?" jokes when he told us.
My best take-a-piss-next-to-a-minor-celebrity moment came at Bolton's Octagon Theatre. I was in the middle of the three urinals and I had David Neilson (Coronation Street's Roy Cropper) on my left and John McArdle (Brookside's Billy Corkhill for thoe of a certain age) on my right.
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I had a 'widdle' next to Gary Thompson a year or so ago at a Lions club event.
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Michael Oakes rocked up next to me, I shot into trap 2.
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Gary Newman, Heathrow airport. I saw him again later on the shuttle bus, his bird had massive tits.
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Elton Welsby and Melvyn Hayes, M1 services after Arsenal away (Chris Price last minute winner).
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I downed a pint with Nigel Kennedy at half time of the Brighton game,we didn't actually speak but it felt like we bonded!
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Villa fan "having-a-piss-next-to" Heaven...in between Leighton Phillips and Frank Carrodus at The Belfry nightclub thing in the 70s!
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Has any other reader pissed next to a minor celebrity?
Benjamin Zephaniah, half time at Upton Park.
did you have a gander?
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I had a piss next to Nigel in a pub on Fulham high street a few years ago, he was sound and not at all like I imagined.
Has any other reader pissed next to a minor celebrity?
I'd say one of, if not the world's greatest violinist is little bit more than a minor celebrity. That's the sort of thing you'd call a reality tv star, not Our Nigel.
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He's playing in Brisbane soon, so my Southampton supporting mate told me. Doubt I'll go, but nice to know anyway. What's his graffiti-riddled car he gets about in - is it a jag or a roller? I saw it parked at the corner of Jardine Rd once.
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Bumped into the omni present Nige Kenn as his friends like to call him ... on some services on the way back from some away game in one of the years between 1987 and 1990.
Was memorable and emotional to be honest.
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I once had a slash next to Paul Tait in O'Neiils Solihull, his cock was SO tiny.
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I once had a slash next to Paul Tait in O'Neiils Solihull, his cock was SO tiny.
I thought he was a good six foot of nothing but cock.
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Met Nigel in the Trinity and my daughter had her photo taken with him. Really nice bloke
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Had a piss next to Garry Parker in a pub in Oxford.
I used to work in the bars at Villa park for a while. One behalf time we were struggling to pour the pints quick enough (as usual), Nigel Kennedy was near the front of the queue ordering his drinks, to shouts go 'buy mine nigel?' 'get us a couple Nige'.
He must have bought about twenty pints for complete randoms.
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I had a piss near Donald Trump and a few others at the Moscow Travelodge. There's footage somewhere.
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Speaking of the tennis, last week I thoroughly enjoyed watching Briton Dan Evans smash my fellow Australian Bernard Tomic, simply because 'Evo' is a huge Villa fan apparently. Tomic on the other hand is a wanker.
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I had a piss next to Wolfgang Flur of Kraftwerk recently and said to him so you're not exactly a robot there Wolfie .
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I was at a Jam tribute act gig at the Rover club in Solihull a few years ago. Went for a piss and Steve Craddock was being violently sick in one of the cubicles with the door open and his huge minder sort of looking after him. He was absolutely slaughtered - we nearly had a row up town later when he mouthed off and I pushed him over.
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Steve, or the terry McCann guy?
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I had a piss next to Nigel in a pub on Fulham high street a few years ago, he was sound and not at all like I imagined.
Has any other reader pissed next to a minor celebrity?
Yes - Goldie in a nightclub in Hoxton about 15 years ago.
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I've met Nige as well, outside that pub most away fans frequent in Shepherds Bush before QPR a few years ago. He called me 'cat' for some reason. At least, i think that's what he said.
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Steve, or the terry McCann guy?
Steve. I almost needed the toilet myself when the minder stood up.
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Someone I know ,who is classical minded when it comes to music and has played classical music in orcestra''s for a number of years went to see him in Evesham a couple of months ago. I had told her he was a mad villa fan and a bit off the wall which seemed to lower her expectations somewhat. The concert started late as he was late getting back from Leeds away and this was announced at the concert. After the concert she messaged me to say it was the best thing she had seen in years. She is now a 100% fan of him.
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I got two quid off him at Spurs.
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At a fan forum at Villa Park, I stood at the urinal next to Big Ron. Fat, chunky, bulbous head. And his penis wasn't very pretty either.
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I had a piss next to Tony Iommi at the Barn Social Club a few years ago. We were both there watching Alvin Stardust.
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I had a piss next to Tony Iommi at the Barn Social Club a few years ago. We were both there watching Alvin Stardust.
Was Alvin taking a pee too ?
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Mark James the old golfer at the forest of arden
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With the amount of pissing going on here it might be wise for one or two of you to have your prostates examined.
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I had a pee next to Roy Chubby Brown in a curry house in Blackwell Street, Kidderminster.
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Years ago had the odd pee in blackwell street after coming out of the peacock but more in the street than in a curry house.
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I had a piss next to Gavin McCann, before a Fulham away game
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I once played 5-a-side against the Kemp Brothers at Craven Cottage. They were actually very, very good footballers and knocked us out the competition.
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Wish we had a match to discuss ha ha
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Doug in the Lower Holte bogs at an AGM.
Cardew Robinson at some motorway services.
Not a "next to" but I also saw Muriel Gray going into the toilets on a Calmac ferry coming back from the Outer Hebrides.
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Not a "next to" but I also saw Muriel Gray going into the toilets on a Calmac ferry coming back from the Outer Hebrides.
Did you get a good view of the Minch?
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Not a "next to" but I also saw Muriel Gray going into the toilets on a Calmac ferry coming back from the Outer Hebrides.
Did you get a good view of the Minch?
Oh I say.
*applause*
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At Ronnie Scotts in London last night. Nigel Kennedy was playing George Gershwin music, once again in his Villa shirt. He played Rhapsody in Blue - "but I prefer to call it Rhapsody in claret and blue". I spoke to him afterwards and we had a chat about Jack Grealish form since his injury - "he gives them the eye now and they can only stop him by hacking him down". When I told him I'd been at the match on Sunday he was short and to the point: "You lucky bastard." Top bloke and and a proper Villa fan.
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Agree 100%. Coming out of the away game at Brighton he came towards us to do fist bumps. I thought he had recognized my famous son but he actually remembered me from previous chats at VP. That was the game when we had 17 corners in the last quarter and the mighty Brighton were hanging on for the draw. Nigel said "we have got a team again". It took a year and a half but it came true eventually.
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I have met/spoken with Nigel on a few occasions (he used to live close to my cousin in Malvern) - he is always friendly and engaging
My funniest encounter was at Newcastle where we had both attempted to ascend the steps to the away fans section/corner at too fast a pace .
We had both overdone it and were making "base camp" half way up - we started up a conversation which went something like -
" Hi Nigel....gasp.....how you ....gasp doing ?"
"Ace... gasp.... mate ... gasp .... how about..... gasp ......you?"
" This is .....gasp .....all a bit ....gasp ...challenging"
" Fucking right .....gasp ....it is !"
"see you"
"yeh mate.... gasp .... up the .....gasp.... Villa"
Priceless !!!!!
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There must be someone else on here who can confirm this story, but I was having a slash in the bogs at Highbury in about 2004 when Nigel Kennedy walked in. Beside me was a fellow Villa fan who had clearly been enjoying a few drinks prior to the game, and when he spotted Nigel he exclaimed 'Blimey, is that Nigel Kennedy!?'
Nigel duly confirmed it was indeed him, at which point our fellow Villan said 'I tell you what Nige, I f**king love your flute playing!'
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Gary Newman, Heathrow airport. I saw him again later on the shuttle bus, his bird had massive tits.
Ahem You are talking about the man I love - and it is Mr NUMAN
His wife is Gemma and they as you can imagine are not "real"
Had a piss next to the late great Rik Mayell at M6 services in the 90's
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Had a piss next to Dion Dublin whilst at a end of season do . Im still in rehab😊
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Apart from forcing myself onto people for autographs apart from Nigel Kennedy Sean t and Chris nicholl never really spoken and spent anytime with any celeb. If could add some steamers and c crew the number would increase ha xx
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Had a piss next to Dion Dublin whilst at a end of season do . Im still in rehab😊
Was he in a separate cubicle :)
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Lets say he was further away from the receptical than me
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Agree 100%. Coming out of the away game at Brighton he came towards us to do fist bumps. I thought he had recognized my famous son but he actually remembered me from previous chats at VP. That was the game when we had 17 corners in the last quarter and the mighty Brighton were hanging on for the draw. Nigel said "we have got a team again". It took a year and a half but it came true eventually.
Probably missing a joke or something but who's your famous son?
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Agree 100%. Coming out of the away game at Brighton he came towards us to do fist bumps. I thought he had recognized my famous son but he actually remembered me from previous chats at VP. That was the game when we had 17 corners in the last quarter and the mighty Brighton were hanging on for the draw. Nigel said "we have got a team again". It took a year and a half but it came true eventually.
Probably missing a joke or something but who's your famous son?
Al Green.
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Agree 100%. Coming out of the away game at Brighton he came towards us to do fist bumps. I thought he had recognized my famous son but he actually remembered me from previous chats at VP. That was the game when we had 17 corners in the last quarter and the mighty Brighton were hanging on for the draw. Nigel said "we have got a team again". It took a year and a half but it came true eventually.
Probably missing a joke or something but who's your famous son?
Al Green.
(http://meanjoegreene75.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Joe-Greene-Headshot.jpg)
Mean Joe Greene. The famous basketball player.
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professor green
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Hughie Green?
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There must be someone else on here who can confirm this story, but I was having a slash in the bogs at Highbury in about 2004 when Nigel Kennedy walked in. Beside me was a fellow Villa fan who had clearly been enjoying a few drinks prior to the game, and when he spotted Nigel he exclaimed 'Blimey, is that Nigel Kennedy!?'
Nigel duly confirmed it was indeed him, at which point our fellow Villan said 'I tell you what Nige, I f**king love your flute playing!'
On the way back from Highbury after Chris Price's late winner in 1990 I went to the toilets at the service station and stood in between Elton Welsby who had anchored the game for ITV and Melvin Hayes of 'It Ain't Half Hot mum' fame.
I have bumped into Nigel Kennedy a couple of times outside grounds but have yet to share toilet facilities with him. If he stood next to me at a urinal and exclaimed 'monster' I would be flattered and take it as a compliment.
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Agree 100%. Coming out of the away game at Brighton he came towards us to do fist bumps. I thought he had recognized my famous son but he actually remembered me from previous chats at VP. That was the game when we had 17 corners in the last quarter and the mighty Brighton were hanging on for the draw. Nigel said "we have got a team again". It took a year and a half but it came true eventually.
Probably missing a joke or something but who's your famous son?
Green from Scritti Polliti (or was it Prefab Sprout)
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I haven't pissed next to him but have met him loads of times. He even pretended to play the world's smallest violin in The Bartons after Small Heath went down (I appreciate that I have to narrow that down by pointing out, after the one where we beat Liverpool last day). Much going up, going down singing followed.
The oddest place I have bumped into him was outside the town hall in Hamburg.
My greatest piss-next-to tale doesn't involve a celebrity. It was all excitable, be on your best behaviour stuff at work, as the Chairman had descended from his ivory tower in the city in London to visit us proles in Brum. We were under strict orders. "Speak when you are spoken to and don't say anything embarrassing". But a chance presented itself that was too good to miss.
I went for a wazz that afternoon and, who should be at the next pan, but our visiting dignitary. He was just finishing up and made eye contact as I started to ready myself for action and I couldn't resist:
"This where the big knobs hang out, is it?"
I was subsequently threatened with a disciplinary until he reported it was the funniest thing he had heard in years a few days later.
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Nigel Kennedy must send the entirety of every match stood at a urinal! I was stood next to him at the Bolton League Cup semi away at the Reebok.
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Ive seen an away fan use his car as a urinal.
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I had a piss next to Nigel in a pub on Fulham high street a few years ago, he was sound and not at all like I imagined.
Has any other reader pissed next to a minor celebrity?
I had a piss next to him at the same match mentioned in the OP
posted earlier in the thread (over a year ago now)
re the who have you pissed next to thing
Upton Park or the Boleyn whichever way you roll
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Agree 100%. Coming out of the away game at Brighton he came towards us to do fist bumps. I thought he had recognized my famous son but he actually remembered me from previous chats at VP. That was the game when we had 17 corners in the last quarter and the mighty Brighton were hanging on for the draw. Nigel said "we have got a team again". It took a year and a half but it came true eventually.
Probably missing a joke or something but who's your famous son?
Green from Scritti Polliti (or was it Prefab Sprout)
More holes in that theory than a string vest
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I saw Nige playing his Hendrix set the night the 2015 semi-final draw was made. Sad bastard that I am I blagged backstage and ended up drinking Veuve Cliquot with him and celebrity lawyer Michael Mansfield in his dressing room. Beat that, peasants.
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So the description of Michael Mansfield as a champagne socialist is factually correct.
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I'm sure I saw Michael Mansfield in the club shop after a game once.
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Blackburn away, that horrible night we lost 3-0 which saw us lose the battle with Man U for the title.
Stopped at a pub on the way up, and there was Nigel, sat on his own. Suddenly he had about 15 people to talk to. It was a great 30 minutes before he had to go. One of our lot was already so pissed that he stayed asleep on the bus and missed it all. (He later staggered into a Police van and got arrested)
Nobody took a picture, nobody hashtagged on social media, of course as it didn't exist back then.....
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I saw Nige playing his Hendrix set the night the 2015 semi-final draw was made. Sad bastard that I am I blagged backstage and ended up drinking Veuve Cliquot with him and celebrity lawyer Michael Mansfield in his dressing room. Beat that, peasants.
I met Nigel at a pub near Selhurst Park in a cup replay against Wimbledon at the fog game in 1993? I brought him a drink, peasant :)
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I saw Nige playing his Hendrix set the night the 2015 semi-final draw was made. Sad bastard that I am I blagged backstage and ended up drinking Veuve Cliquot with him and celebrity lawyer Michael Mansfield in his dressing room. Beat that, peasants.
I met Nigel at a pub near Selhurst Park in a cup replay against Wimbledon at the fog game in 1993? I brought him a drink, peasant :)
What's this "buying a drink" thing all about?
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He stopped for a chat with me when I was selling H+V opposite the Trinity Gates. Thoroughly decent chap I thought.
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I've never had a piss with him though.
I did piss next to Ellery Hanley in the Hacienda in Manchester circa 1992 though. He was with Martin 'Chariots' Offiah.
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I've never had a piss with him though.
I did piss next to Ellery Hanley in the Hacienda in Manchester circa 1992 though. He was with Martin 'Chariots' Offiah.
I used to see the likes of Dennis Betts and Offiah regularly in a Wigan nightclub called Pemps.
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I've never had a piss with him though.
I did piss next to Ellery Hanley in the Hacienda in Manchester circa 1992 though. He was with Martin 'Chariots' Offiah.
I used to see the likes of Dennis Betts and Offiah regularly in a Wigan nightclub called Pemps.
I thought this thread was about celebs - egg chasers don’t really fit in that category ha ha
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I had a piss next to Benjamin Zephaniah at half time at Upton Park about 10 years ago
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Last time I saw Nigel Kennedy was at the Crabtree pre-Fulham about 3 years ago. As friendly as ever. Spizz was in there as well.
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I've never had a piss with him though.
I did piss next to Ellery Hanley in the Hacienda in Manchester circa 1992 though. He was with Martin 'Chariots' Offiah.
I used to see the likes of Dennis Betts and Offiah regularly in a Wigan nightclub called Pemps.
I spent a bit of time knobbing a girl who I think was the niece of Denis Betts. Definitely from that family if I am wrong on the niece bit (she was also surnamed Betts and called him Uncle Denis). Bloody handy for free tickets when he was defence coach at Gloucester!
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I hesitate to confess that I once had a slash next to Gary Glittter at Wembley during a Queen concert (1986) ....
nah, doesn't sound good, reading it back.
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Back in the day at Crystal Palace I had a piss next to Mexico Gold Medal Olympian David Hemery. One for the teenagers.
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I used to regularly piss next to Dave Wakeling from The Beat and Stan Cullimore from the Housemartins as I was at school with them.
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My brother is another who has had a piss next to Nige. I've never had the pleasure.
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I win. Next urinal to Hulk Hogan in New York. Close the thread.
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I had a piss next to Andy McNab. Long story.
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I’ve had a piss next to Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top and David Sylvian, not at the same time. Also held the toilet door open for Boy George twice in an evening*, on the second occasion he said “we must stop meeting like this”.
*not a euphemism.
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I have micturated aside Bez, Irvine Welsh and Stewart Lee. Not all at once. I was 28 years old at the time.
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I once had a piss while next to boyhood hero Bruce Rioch at a reserve game at Bescot .Other celebs i have had a piss next to are the old Spurs striker Clive Allen and Francis Rossi from Status Quo
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Had a piss next to Robert 'Goldilocks' Plant at the Labour In Vain,Stourbridge
He then went for a big log.
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Well I've had a shit in the Duke of Westmisnters' gaff, Eaton Hall. Top that.
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I've just been fisting Norman Lamont.
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I hesitate to confess that I once had a slash next to Gary Glittter at Wembley during a Queen concert (1986) ....
nah, doesn't sound good, reading it back.
You were you.
He was a completely compromised and expertly undercover child sex offender, headlining and playing the gig.
I don’t see anything you could have done differently, Mister E.
Let yourself off.
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I hesitate to confess that I once had a slash next to Gary Glittter at Wembley during a Queen concert (1986) ....
nah, doesn't sound good, reading it back.
That must have been traumatic. A Queen concert?
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Well I've had a shit in the Duke of Westmisnters' gaff, Eaton Hall. Top that.
Over the years I have been told a number of times by my parents that as a three year old I had a piss up the gates of the White House.
I like to think of it as my protest against the Nixon regime.
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Had a piss next to Robert 'Goldilocks' Plant at the Labour In Vain,Stourbridge
He then went for a big log.
I hope they have cleaned the bogs, I might pop in there later!
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I had a piss once next to John Bobbitt.
And I didnt look.
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My dad once stood next to Norman Fowler at the urinals.
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I've just been fisting Norman Lamont.
Very good
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I had a piss next to Alan McInally in Amsterdam
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It would be remiss of me not to point out Chelts best Nigel Kennedy story.
His son was collecting 2p pieces ready for the caravan holiday, so that he could go on the arcade games at the holiday camp. So every time Chelts saw coppers in anyone's change he would ask for them.
At the bar next to Nigel Kennedy he saw the coppers in his change and thought he would cheekily ask for them. Before he had chance to explain the reason why he was asking for the 2 pence pieces, our Nige assumed he was down on his luck and said 'Oh no mate, have a £1' and then proceeded to try and give hime all the £1 coins from his change. Chelts could barely splutter that he wasn't actually begging!
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I hesitate to confess that I once had a slash next to Gary Glittter at Wembley during a Queen concert (1986) ....
nah, doesn't sound good, reading it back.
You mean Paul Gadd? One of my final pleasures before retiring was " Turning the key" on him before going home at night!
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I hesitate to confess that I once had a slash next to Gary Glittter at Wembley during a Queen concert (1986) ....
nah, doesn't sound good, reading it back.
You mean Paul Gadd? One of my final pleasures before retiring was " Turning the key" on him before going home at night!
The worst gig I ever went to was a Gary Glitter gig.
That sounds like the lead up to a bad taste punchline but it is a fact. It was at the NEC in December 1989.
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I hesitate to confess that I once had a slash next to Gary Glittter at Wembley during a Queen concert (1986) ....
nah, doesn't sound good, reading it back.
You mean Paul Gadd? One of my final pleasures before retiring was " Turning the key" on him before going home at night!
The worst gig I ever went to was a Gary Glitter gig.
That sounds like the lead up to a bad taste punchline but it is a fact. It was at the NEC in December 1989.
One of the best gigs that I went to was Nigel Kennedy in Brum town centre a couple of years ago :-)
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It would be remiss of me not to point out Chelts best Nigel Kennedy story.
His son was collecting 2p pieces ready for the caravan holiday, so that he could go on the arcade games at the holiday camp. So every time Chelts saw coppers in anyone's change he would ask for them.
At the bar next to Nigel Kennedy he saw the coppers in his change and thought he would cheekily ask for them. Before he had chance to explain the reason why he was asking for the 2 pence pieces, our Nige assumed he was down on his luck and said 'Oh no mate, have a £1' and then proceeded to try and give hime all the £1 coins from his change. Chelts could barely splutter that he wasn't actually begging!
Fuck. I forgot about that. I don't look THAT MUCH like a tramp! Charlie would have been delighted to have 2p's donated by the best violin player in the world. I didn't need him to sort me a cab home and make sure I was alright for some tea!
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I hesitate to confess that I once had a slash next to Gary Glittter at Wembley during a Queen concert (1986) ....
nah, doesn't sound good, reading it back.
You were you.
He was a completely compromised and expertly undercover child sex offender, headlining and playing the gig.
I don’t see anything you could have done differently, Mister E.
Let yourself off.
many thanks, Lou!
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I hesitate to confess that I once had a slash next to Gary Glittter at Wembley during a Queen concert (1986) ....
nah, doesn't sound good, reading it back.
That must have been traumatic. A Queen concert?
Haha, touché.
The year after LiveAid, it was very good, as I recall.
All I can say about the incident in said pissoir was that Paul Gadd is very short (no wonder he popularised the platform boots of the Glam Rock era) ....
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I hesitate to confess that I once had a slash next to Gary Glittter at Wembley during a Queen concert (1986) ....
nah, doesn't sound good, reading it back.
That must have been traumatic. A Queen concert?
Haha, touché.
The year after LiveAid, it was very good, as I recall.
All I can say about the incident in said pissoir was that Paul Gadd is very short (no wonder he popularised the platform boots of the Glam Rock era) ....
Very short! even shorter in a pram....sorry, wheelchair ;-)
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One of the best gigs I ever saw was Gary Glitter, round about 1984.
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Do other forums go off on such bizarre tangents as H&V?
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Do other forums go off on such bizarre tangents as H&V?
Possibly, but I like to think we do it far, far better than most.
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Do other forums go off on such bizarre tangents as H&V?
I see your bizarre tangents, and raise you a teratogenic cosine! ::) ::) 8)
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I've just remembered I once met Small Heath legend (he once scored a goal against the Villa) Andy Kennedy after Frank Worthington's Small Heath v Villa testimonial at the sty in May 1986. My only memory of the meeting is that it was a hot day and he was wearing leather trousers. That day I also overheard Graham Turner tell somebody he was going to scout a possible new signing at the Scottish Cup final. Which presumably turned out to be Neale Cooper.
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Do other forums go off on such bizarre tangents as H&V?
I see your bizarre tangents, and raise you a teratogenic cosine! ::) ::) 8)
I’m in with a simple twist of fate
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Did the undead give Worthington more than one testimonial? I seem to remember going to one at the Sty in Summer 1991 when Villa provided the majority of a Ron Atkinson International XI which also included Kevin Keegan and George Best.
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I don’t think the Out Islanders ever bettered this Polynesian Fantasy Album.
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i hate that Worthingtin ever played for them he was a fantastic footballer to watch
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Did the undead give Worthington more than one testimonial? I seem to remember going to one at the Sty in Summer 1991 when Villa provided the majority of a Ron Atkinson International XI which also included Kevin Keegan and George Best.
I doubt it. I can't believe he got a testimonial at all for three years service to the club. I have no recollection whatsoever of us playing them in summer 1991.
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It was for this game
https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/FRANK-WORTHINGTON-BENEFIT-BIRMINGHAM-CITY-V-A-RON-ATKINSON-INTERNATIONAL-XI-/162838210595#vi__app-cvip-panel
I don't think all the players listed actually turned up because I definitely remember Best and Keegan playing as well as Ian Ormondroyd.
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Tragically Frank is suffering from Alzheimer's disease
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The last time I saw him was sometime in the late '80's IIRC, playing for a non-league team against Bromsgrove Rovers. He still had his shoulder length hair in those days.