Random Stories About Footballers

[pauliewalnuts]

Mate of mine is a football commentator [bbc] so have met quite a few players and managers through him..The funniest has to be Ally McCoist..Genuine nice bloke with great sense of humour..doesn't take himself too seriously unlike some of the pratts I have come across

I quite agree. My wife's claim to fame is being chatted up by Ally and Mo Johnstone

I have vague memories of going to a six a side football thing at the NEC in the 80s - Atari Soccer 6? - and my mate asking Mo Johnson for an autograph. Think he was on Watford's bench that night. he told my mate to fuck off.

Even then, he was a billy big bollocks, the absolute ******. He must have been about 19.

[RussellC]

I acted for a Wolves player once in a court dispute and it was coming up to the time when we had to prepare for the trial at Wolverhampton County Court. We wanted to call his girlfriend (a model, natch) as a witness. He said she couldn't do it because it was too far for her to travel. He used to play for a club in Yorkshire so I assumed she was still living up there. It turned out she lived in a suburb of Wolverhampton, about 3 miles from the city centre.   

Dean Richards?

Unfortunately I can't say whether it was or not, for reasons of client confidentiality....

Understood.

[PeterWithe]

Did he die very prematurely or am I thinking of someone else?

[PeterWithe]

Mate of mine is a football commentator [bbc] so have met quite a few players and managers through him..The funniest has to be Ally McCoist..Genuine nice bloke with great sense of humour..doesn't take himself too seriously unlike some of the pratts I have come across

I quite agree. My wife's claim to fame is being chatted up by Ally and Mo Johnstone

I have vague memories of going to a six a side football thing at the NEC in the 80s - Atari Soccer 6? - and my mate asking Mo Johnson for an autograph. Think he was on Watford's bench that night. he told my mate to fuck off.

Even then, he was a billy big bollocks, the absolute c***. He must have been about 19.

Was that the one the Blues won?

[RussellC]

I know I'm stretching the boundaries of credibility hear but Leroy Lita played for my work's 5 aside team a few years ago. It was the summer before he signed for Reading. He was shit. We lost 3-1 (and I must point out that I won MOTM) although he was actually a nice enough guy. He didn't work for us, but was a friend of someone who was.

[pauliewalnuts]

Mate of mine is a football commentator [bbc] so have met quite a few players and managers through him..The funniest has to be Ally McCoist..Genuine nice bloke with great sense of humour..doesn't take himself too seriously unlike some of the pratts I have come across

I quite agree. My wife's claim to fame is being chatted up by Ally and Mo Johnstone

I have vague memories of going to a six a side football thing at the NEC in the 80s - Atari Soccer 6? - and my mate asking Mo Johnson for an autograph. Think he was on Watford's bench that night. he told my mate to fuck off.

Even then, he was a billy big bollocks, the absolute c***. He must have been about 19.

Was that the one the Blues won?

I believe so. Although I can't remember any trophy shenanigans at the time, and I was with a few noses from school, so they'd have insisted we stay. May have been over two nights.

The Mo Johnson bit is the only bit I really remember.

[PeterWithe]

I used to enjoy telling younger Noses I know that Id seen them win more trophies than they had, and that was a 5 a side tournament, winning the League Cup a few years ago kind of ruined that.

[Chico Hamilton III]

six a side football thing at the NEC in the 80s - Atari Soccer 6?

Was it the Guinness Soccer Six?

[Pat McMahon]

Mate of mine is a football commentator [bbc] so have met quite a few players and managers through him..The funniest has to be Ally McCoist..Genuine nice bloke with great sense of humour..doesn't take himself too seriously unlike some of the pratts I have come across

I quite agree. My wife's claim to fame is being chatted up by Ally and Mo Johnstone

I have vague memories of going to a six a side football thing at the NEC in the 80s - Atari Soccer 6? - and my mate asking Mo Johnson for an autograph. Think he was on Watford's bench that night. he told my mate to fuck off.

Even then, he was a billy big bollocks, the absolute c***. He must have been about 19.

When I lived in France I had mates near Nantes and had a few good weekends around there. Johnson was playing for Nantes - possibly early 90s IIRC -  and a journalist I met in a bar confirmed that he had a reputation for thinking he had the talent of Maradona and the looks of Maldini.

[Rancid custard]

Can't wait for Palace Villa in April, The team will be staying at the hotel that backs onto my garden (just moved last summer), so I'll nip up the road and stalk them in the bar and report back.

[cheltenhamlion]

The works football team only play random games rather than anything official (company policy).

There was one firm we used to play regularly though who had 2 semi Pro's working there and a couple of mates who turned out in our matches who patently didn't.

For years those bastards beat us until I cheated one game in the Summer.

I called in an old junior football colleague.

Cheltenham, I think, sold him to Barnsley a few weeks before.

He single handedly had us six up at half time before departing, that much I do remember.

Also, not a footballer, but a manager. I was tasked a couple of years back with sorting out a claim for Arsene Wenger after a substantial water burst in his property. A very nice man he was too.

Unlike Anne Widdecombe who was a horrible cow.

[villa `cross the mersey]

I think Steve Staunton lives in Shenstone. He certainly did when he was ROI manager although that was a few years back now I guess.

His wife and son live here in Formby - when I spoke to his son recently he said his dad was living up north - Sunderland I recall although with the arrival of a new manager that may have changed

[villa kicks]

These stories arent so random !
 It's not like anyone hit osn a chick at Victoria coach station when they were 15 lie about my age charm her and coz im kinda good looking have a flirty chat as she was bored waiting for her coach to newcastle ... I went for the number close only to get told i was too young , she didn't live in area and her boyf gets jealous ... That was Amanda Carrington.... got a facebook but she deleted me after 3 weeks after her jealous boyf messaged saying I had Fuck all chance kid now Fuck off you retarded bollox.... Oh her  boyf ? That was joey barton

[IAmTheOneIanOlney]

Around Christmas 2002, I got a text from my mate that said my phone was about to ring, but I should let it go to answer phone then check the message. When I did, a booming Scottish voice said, "It's Rambo here, what the **** is going on at the Villa at the moment? Merry Christmas."

My Villa-supporting mate had been invited to the Sky Sports Christmas party by a friend who was a production manager there and got talking to McInally, who he said was a top man.

[Rotterdam]

On a similar vain to the above; I was at a Villa Former Players do a couple of years ago, and asked Chico Hamilton to phone my dad. He agreed and to say my dad was shocked is an understatement. My folks had been in bed for an hour and we had woke them...

'Mum? Can you wake Dad?'
'er...why?'
'I've got Chico Hamilton on the phone and he wants to say hello'

It was about 2am as well...