Player Arrival Time - Kids Autographs

[J@mes1982]

Long time watcher and reader but first time poster, so hello everyone. I'm looking to get to the game early on Saturday as it's my 7 year old's birthday and she wants to get some autographs from the players, is anybody 'in know' of what time the players arrive, i've seen on Twitter before that they start arriving around 11am, so if that is the case anyone have an idea of what time to be there?

 

Years ago when I was younger at Filbert Street it was after the game I stayed, but we can't as we are going out after the match.

[dave_the_fox]

I did the exact same for the wolves game mate. The stewards recommend you get them after the game. Which is what me and my lad did! Got loads of autographs and the lad got a nice pic with Madders

[Voll Blau]

Shame kids these days don't get to experience the chaos of the Filbert Street car park, mobbing players as soon as they turn up. Great times.

Edited 19 September 2018 by Voll Blau

[J@mes1982]

That was me to mate, awesome. It was the grown men there who clearly hadn’t been at the game ‘professional’ autograph hunting pushing 5 tear old kids out the way.

 

i guess I’m just going to have to chance it beforehand on Saturday.

[stripeyfox]

11 hours ago, J@mes1982 said:

That was me to mate, awesome. It was the grown men there who clearly hadn’t been at the game ‘professional’ autograph hunting pushing 5 tear old kids out the way.

 

i guess I’m just going to have to chance it beforehand on Saturday.

yeah it can be a bit chaotic. Can also be a bit hit and miss as to how "responsive" the players are. We had a particularly disappointing experience after Huddersfield last season when we waited in the rain for an hour only for player after player walk past (some of them escorted by an umbrella carrying lackie so they didn't get wet) totally ignoring the kids waiting, On that day, it was only Kingy (who else?) who stopped for pictures and autographs.

 

 

[Izzy]

1 hour ago, stripeyfox said:

yeah it can be a bit chaotic. Can also be a bit hit and miss as to how "responsive" the players are. We had a particularly disappointing experience after Huddersfield last season when we waited in the rain for an hour only for player after player walk past (some of them escorted by an umbrella carrying lackie so they didn't get wet) totally ignoring the kids waiting, On that day, it was only Kingy (who else?) who stopped for pictures and autographs.

 

Fvck sake, spoilt brats

 

And people wonder why the average man on the street can't relate to professional footballers anymore.

[Jimothy]

11 minutes ago, Izzy Muzzett said:

Fvck sake, spoilt brats

 

And people wonder why the average man on the street can't relate to professional footballers anymore.

Thing is you can imagine someone like Ronaldo,  with his wealth and ego would employ someone to do that for him, but I can't for a second believe that Daniel Amartey is employing a personal assistant to carry his umbrella, so it's being provided by the club. It's pathetic. The club are just encouraging it. Clubs do absolutely everything for the players these days. It's why someone like Aguero can live in England for 8 years and not speak English. It's lazy on his part, but man city have facilitated it by doing everything for him. I can't imagine living somewhere that long and not speaking the native language.

[UniFox21]

12 minutes ago, Facecloth said:

Thing is you can imagine someone like Ronaldo,  with his wealth and ego would employ someone to do that for him, but I can't for a second believe that Daniel Amartey is employing a personal assistant to carry his umbrella, so it's being provided by the club. It's pathetic. The club are just encouraging it. Clubs do absolutely everything for the players these days. It's why someone like Aguero can live in England for 8 years and not speak English. It's lazy on his part, but man city have facilitated it by doing everything for him. I can't imagine living somewhere that long and not speaking the native language.

But whilst you're criticising Ronaldo, he is known to always make time for fans especially kids with autographs etc. 

 

[UniFox21]

17 hours ago, J@mes1982 said:

Long time watcher and reader but first time poster, so hello everyone. I'm looking to get to the game early on Saturday as it's my 7 year old's birthday and she wants to get some autographs from the players, is anybody 'in know' of what time the players arrive, i've seen on Twitter before that they start arriving around 11am, so if that is the case anyone have an idea of what time to be there?

 

Years ago when I was younger at Filbert Street it was after the game I stayed, but we can't as we are going out after the match.

Best of luck mate! May be worth when you get there early to mention to a security guard it's your kids birthday and it'd be great if you could get a few autographs or pictures, may be a long shot but they may ask or point a player or two in your direction! 

[Guest MattP]

16 hours ago, Voll Blau said:

Shame kids these days don't get to experience the chaos of the Filbert Street car park, mobbing players as soon as they turn up. Great times.

I got Roberto Mancini to sign a betting slip and then accidently touched his cock when I went in for a handshake. Might even be the reason he didn't hang around too long.

Edited 20 September 2018 by MattP

[Izzy]

18 minutes ago, Facecloth said:

Thing is you can imagine someone like Ronaldo,  with his wealth and ego would employ someone to do that for him, but I can't for a second believe that Daniel Amartey is employing a personal assistant to carry his umbrella, so it's being provided by the club. It's pathetic. The club are just encouraging it. Clubs do absolutely everything for the players these days. It's why someone like Aguero can live in England for 8 years and not speak English. It's lazy on his part, but man city have facilitated it by doing everything for him. I can't imagine living somewhere that long and not speaking the native language.

You're absolutely right mate, the clubs are as much to blame as the players.

 

There's been a lot of stuff recently on ex players who are suffering from depression as they can't adjust to 'normal' life after the club stop spoon feeding them.

 

I heard Paul Merson on the radio talking about not knowing how to register for his local GP because all he did was phone the club doctor if he had a problem. Troy Deeney was also talking about having all his meals pre-made and delivered to his house every week so he didn't have to do any cooking himself.

 

Footballers live in a completely different world...

[leicesterlad1989]

15 minutes ago, MattP said:

I got Roberto Mancini to sign a betting slip and then accidently touched his cock when I went in for a handshake. Might even be the reason he didn't hang around too long.

Why was he signing autographs with his cock out?

[UniFox21]

16 minutes ago, Izzy Muzzett said:

You're absolutely right mate, the clubs are as much to blame as the players.

 

There's been a lot of stuff recently on ex players who are suffering from depression as they can't adjust to 'normal' life after the club stop spoon feeding them.

 

I heard Paul Merson on the radio talking about not knowing how to register for his local GP because all he did was phone the club doctor if he had a problem. Troy Deeney was also talking about having all his meals pre-made and delivered to his house every week so he didn't have to do any cooking himself.

 

Footballers live in a completely different world...

Watched something the other week where Steve Sidwell was saying agents these says sort out buying houses, sorting kids into school, paying bills everything that a normal person would do themselves. It's genuinely as if they're all children 

[Bert]

I would be surprised if you get any before hand. 

[stripeyfox]

1 hour ago, Izzy Muzzett said:

Fvck sake, spoilt brats

 

And people wonder why the average man on the street can't relate to professional footballers anymore.

It is a bit crushing as a 9 year old when you've waited in the rain on a cold day only to see Wes Morgan unable to walk 20 yards to his car without someone carrying an umbrella for him. I mean, Wes is a grown man, surely he can carry his own umbrella whilst ignoring the kids?

 

*the only other person who came over to say hello after that match (apart from Andy King) was David Wagner!
 

 

[Guest]

They are probably worried that if they are photographed talking to kids outside a stadium on a rainy day that in 10 years time they'll be in front of the courts on a pedophile charge.

[UniFox21]

2 minutes ago, FIF said:

They are probably worried that if they are photographed talking to kids outside a stadium on a rainy day that in 10 years time they'll be in front of the courts on a pedophile charge.

It's fine, they don't work for the BBC

[Jimothy]

56 minutes ago, UniFox21 said:

But whilst you're criticising Ronaldo, he is known to always make time for fans especially kids with autographs etc. 

 

Didn't actually criticise Ronaldo, just said he's the type who might employ an assistant. I was criticising the club's for spoon feeding the players.

[Footballwipe]

Do people still do autographs? I never really got the attraction of getting a signature that's basically illegible to everyone but you who witnessed it being signed, but I thought selfies had replaced signing a programme/flag/shirt etc.

 

There's something about getting autographs that seems so archaic now! Though that's better than holding a sign begging for a player's shirt so go for it.

[cambridgefox]

2 hours ago, MattP said:

I got Roberto Mancini to sign a betting slip and then accidently touched his cock when I went in for a handshake. Might even be the reason he didn't hang around too long.

I very rarely laugh out loud even if I find it funny,but this has made kenco come out of my nose!!!

This is the sort of thing I would do,

i once dropped a wad of notes( worked in a bank) and one fell slowly like a leaf falling,went to catch it as the stunning Argentinian girl( yet fiery)that I worked with, stepped back and as well as grabbing the note,I got a handful of her arse,in a Benny Hill sort of way.

[Guest MattP]

3 minutes ago, cambridgefox said:

I very rarely laugh out loud even if I find it funny,but this has made kenco come out of my nose!!!

This is the sort of thing I would do,

i once dropped a wad of notes( worked in a bank) and one fell slowly like a leaf falling,went to catch it as the stunning Argentinian girl( yet fiery)that I worked with, stepped back and as well as grabbing the note,I got a handful of her arse,in a Benny Hill sort of way.

It was terrible, I was giddy at getting his autograph anyway and just flung the hand at him as he moved his and walked forward, because of the shape of the hand I cupped him like a prison tailor, his face was an expression I've never seen before and haven't seen since from him in mangament, I'm sure if I saw him again and asked him he would remember it, it was that bad.

[cambridgefox]

48 minutes ago, MattP said:

It was terrible, I was giddy at getting his autograph anyway and just flung the hand at him as he moved his and walked forward, because of the shape of the hand I cupped him like a prison tailor, his face was an expression I've never seen before and haven't seen since from him in mangament, I'm sure if I saw him again and asked him he would remember it, it was that bad.

This gets better ?

[Rob1742]

Its a weird one this. a company I deal with sent us to watch the England team train on a jolly. At the end the audience were told to leave apart from a select few who had paid a premium price and could get autographs. I had taken two Beckham shirts to get signed. He only signed one, so I went to the back of the queue to get the second one autographed. He spotted I had already got one signed so he got the bouncer to clear me off. At the time I thought this was off, but there is an industry in people making money out of his autographs, and those feeding off him are what he is trying to stop.

 

There are loads of companies that get young kids to get autographs on shirts and pictures and then charge a fortune for them, so I can understand his hesitance in letting people near him.

 

Generally I think the Leicester lads have always been excellent, and probably the day it was raining was the day they didn't fancy it. But generally they treat the fans very well.

[Al-aLondon-Foxile]

We often did this on trips to the KP with my kids in its early days. If you were there around 1pm you'd catch quite a few. I'll always remember David Nugent turning up in shorts and a T-shirt on a cold day, but rather than rush in he obliged the crowd, and at the end of the line he picked up a child and had a selfie with him as the dad said it was the little kids birthday. Nugent was very close to us, and was clearly shivering with cold, and I really rated him for his efforts that day. My kids are grown up now, so we go to the pub for beer pre-match, which is a hell of a lot more fun, so i've no idea what time the players arrive now.  

[stripeyfox]

8 hours ago, MattP said:

I got Roberto Mancini to sign a betting slip and then accidently touched his cock when I went in for a handshake. Might even be the reason he didn't hang around too long.

 

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