Little known things

[TheUltimateWinner]

I gave a group of lads a lift to someone’s wedding after their bus broke down near to my house. 

Ended up speaking to them about football and they asked me who I supported, I said I was a big Leicester fan and they went quiet which I thought was a bit weird (they were all fans of London clubs). 

 

Check the local paper a few days later and turns out I’d dropped them off at Andy Kings wedding, hence their silence when I said I was a season ticket holder and a big Leicester fan 

Edited 24 September 2021 by TheUltimateWinner

[nabb7]

35 minutes ago, Out Foxed said:

yeah bro met king at drinkwaters bday proper sound. drinkwater is a bellend of the highest order.

Do spill the beans?

[Buzzell]

38 minutes ago, Out Foxed said:

yeah bro met king at drinkwaters bday proper sound. drinkwater is a bellend of the highest order.

Yeh I could imagine Drinkwater being a complete melt tbf.

[Footballwipe]

1 hour ago, buzzer_b said:

Another drunken time in Zanzibar in the ‘Cabana room’ I bumped into Richard Stearman and Trevor Benjamin. I went up to Benjamin and said ‘Hey you’re Trevor Benjamin!’ He turned around and said ‘I’m his twin brother’. Stearman, sucking his Chubba Chubba lollipop from the Lucky Lucky man, thought it was absolutely hilarious.

 

Benjamin was an absolute unit. Stearman was an absolute penis.

Stearman is married to a girl who was in my year at Winstanley. She was part of the popular gang but wasn't actually an arse tbf, just a bit elitist.

 

I'm sure her best friend was with Joe Mattock as well at one point, not sure if it was around the same time as Mattock's troubles though.

[Foxxed]

14 hours ago, cambridgefox said:

Ok,here is a crap one.My mate works with Harvey Barnes dad Paul.You know the one they mention most games that he used to play pro football .

What does Paul (and your mate) do now?

[TAFKA Castroneves]

Funny one from when I was a student at Uni, I was sat in a class one day - and noticed this other student sat in a full Leicester training kit across the room. So after the lecture I introduced myself to the guy as a City fan as well, to which he responded, “I’m not actually a Leicester fan - I’m just on trial for them at the moment”

 

So yeah anyways he was a tank Serbian/British goalkeeper called Milan Barisic, top bloke was always a laugh and a big character. His family had ties with Milan Mandaric and he’d previously been a young goalkeeper at places like Reading and Southampton. Sadly didn’t work out as he didn’t get signed - but did end up playing a bit for Oxford City in the end I believe. Had some great nights out with him after his trial period was over but sadly fell out of touch over time, anyways its a small world I guess 😂 

[Suzie the Fox]

My mum dated both Bobby Roberts and Davie G (not at the same time.) The old girl was a bit of a WAG back in the day.

[SouthLondonFox]

1 hour ago, buzzer_b said:

Most of them were up their own arse knobbers. Never met Nugent but King was proper down to earth. Top bloke.

When my son was about eight years old he sent a hand written letter to David Nugent (c/o the KP) asking him to send him his autograph, promising to send his back when he played for England. Nugent duly sent an autograph and a nice note, my son is yet to play for England...

[Unabomber]

15 minutes ago, Suzie the Fox said:

My mum dated both Bobby Roberts and Davie G (not at the same time.) The old girl was a bit of a WAG back in the day.

@davieG nice 

[cambridgefox]

1 hour ago, Foxxed said:

What does Paul (and your mate) do now?

Finance for Plant Machinery I believe.

[urban fox]

My missus was in the next bed to Steve Walsh's wife at the general maternity unit when our daughter was born. whenever he came in to visit he sat watching footy on the ward tv. Some of the women moaned so he wheeled the telly out and sat in the corridor watching.

 

[davieG]

1 hour ago, Suzie the Fox said:

My mum dated both Bobby Roberts and Davie G (not at the same time.) The old girl was a bit of a WAG back in the day.

I'm jealous 

[ozleicester]

2 hours ago, SouthLondonFox said:

When my son was about eight years old he sent a hand written letter to David Nugent (c/o the KP) asking him to send him his autograph, promising to send his back when he played for England. Nugent duly sent an autograph and a nice note, my son is yet to play for England...

what a knobber... ffs...just play for england and send poor old Nuge an autograph

[MPH]

2 hours ago, Suzie the Fox said:

My mum dated both Bobby Roberts and Davie G (not at the same time.) The old girl was a bit of a WAG back in the day.

 

1 hour ago, davieG said:

I'm jealous 

 

yeah Bobby Roberts was a bit of a looker..

[davieG]

2 minutes ago, MPH said:

 

 

yeah Bobby Roberts was a bit of a looker..

Could take a good free kick as well.

[Vlad the Fox]

11 hours ago, Out Foxed said:

seem to remember matt heath being a bit of a knobber too

 

david nugent, however, top class

My mates lad was mascot one match, he said the same about Nugent, top class, made them feel really welcome when in the changing room.

[bovril]

In the O'Neill era my Dad used to park matchdays in a carpark we referred to as the 'Carl Heggs carpark' because we thought the guy running it looked just like Carl Heggs, who was playing for Rushden at the time.

 

One day we turned up and his mate was running it instead. When we asked where the usual guy was, he said "he's off watching his brother Carl Heggs play". 

[Wolfox]

23 hours ago, MPH said:

One time before an evening away game against Luton David pleat had the lads on the pitch doing a bit of an impromptu set peice training session. Me and my friends knew their usual leaving time for away games and so we we waiting for autographs. Got a few as they got onto the coach.  Marc North came back off the coach and asked us to go get him a couple of cans of lucozade and a couple of Mars bars  he gave me the money and off I shot.. friends gave up as I was outrunning them.  I burst into filbert grocers and announced I was here to buy Mars bars and lucozade for Marc north.  Chap behind the till was suitably unimpressed- not sure what I was expecting… so I got the Mars bars and lucozades ( he was buying for Ricky Hill aswell)   Paid for them and legged it back to the coach. Marc Morth came down the stairs, took the stuff and told me to keep the change! It was about 56p! I was well chuffed.

 

all players and staff were on the coach by now except David Pleat..  he came out carrying his footy boots and a tracksuit .. he saw us standing there grinning with our autograph books and said “ are you waiting for me?” To which we all nodded. He said “ let me put this on the coach and I’ll be back” he then walked up the steps, told the driver  to go, the doors slammed shut, the coach drove off and he left us standing there books and pens in hand looking like muppets.

 

His highfield visits didn’t  earn the same disdain from me as that did. 

David Pleat lived in a standard two up two down terrace on Francis St…. 
 

My mate rented it in the mid 90’s…. He was informed on moving in who the recent tenant was… It was known as the ‘house of pleat’….   We always wondered what sweaty sworded shenanigans he’d got up to in there…

[OntarioFox]

Went to school with Liam Moore and played him at footy in PE once. We lost 5-4, he scored all five for them, I scored all four for us.

 

Got into a fight with him because I tackled him from behind when he was through on goal once again - this was when he was still an academy prospect, had no idea he was. He's an alright guy though, and I forgave him when he scored against Wigan.
 

Edited 25 September 2021 by OntarioFox

[FLAN]

9 hours ago, bovril said:

In the O'Neill era my Dad used to park matchdays in a carpark we referred to as the 'Carl Heggs carpark' because we thought the guy running it looked just like Carl Heggs, who was playing for Rushden at the time.

 

One day we turned up and his mate was running it instead. When we asked where the usual guy was, he said "he's off watching his brother Carl Heggs play". 

That’s his twin Craig 

[FLAN]

Mate lives in Gerry Taggarts old house. Still gets mail for him

[los dedos]

Was in a small VIP queue at Luxor/ Flaming Colossus on Welford road . When i looked behind me to see Neil Lennon . Randomly i said to him " Your only in this queue  because your famous " 

Don't know why i said it .

 

Oh i was very drunk at the time and he was one of my favourite players 😭

[Ashley]

Leicester Fosse actually went bust. 

 

Leicester City was made then on. So technically we weren't formed in 1884? Believe we were properly formed in 1919? 

 

Anyone else shed light on this

[Ric Flair]

I've had several piss ups with ex Leicester players over the years. Had a decent one with Izzet and Paul Merson (he drank 8 pints of Peroni in about an hour) but the best was with David Speedie who was wearing a thick black cracked leather jacket that must have been 30 years old and camoflourged combat trousers, we were in Brannigans in Hinckley. Matt Le Tissier was there as well.

 

If you read this and think it's surely not true, you're right I may have made the bit up about Speedie's combats but the rest is bang on.

[Phil Bowman]

56 minutes ago, Ashley said:

Leicester Fosse actually went bust. 

 

Leicester City was made then on. So technically we weren't formed in 1884? Believe we were properly formed in 1919? 

 

Anyone else shed light on this

I thought they just changed the name when Leicester officially became a ‘city.’