chrishlcfc Posted 7 February 2014 Posted 7 February 2014 My grandad's good friends with graham cross my dad painted martin o'neills house in oadby when he was manager. same as op, live on the same estate that neil lennon lived at, remember somebody letting his tyres down. met a few players at leicester races when I was very young, can only remember scott taylor
Trav Le Bleu Posted 7 February 2014 Posted 7 February 2014 I saw Steve Walsh in Oadby Asda a couple years back and I was also in a lift once with Momo Sylla and Nils-Eric Johansson (in the apartment block they both lived in I believe).
Mickey O'Neil Posted 7 February 2014 Posted 7 February 2014 Nearly forgot... I went to School with Lineker Oh, so you went to Shitty of Leicester then!!!
Alf Bentley Posted 7 February 2014 Posted 7 February 2014 Met Robbie Neilson at a music festival. He told me I was the only person to recognise him all day. The music festival was in Leicester... I've always thought well of Robbie. A limited footballer, but he did his best - and had a good "braveheart" look. I think even better of him after your comment. Only someone with no ego (and probably some humour) would have admitted what he did. I know an ex Leicester players drug dealer.... don't ask. Was he a wide player, not great of stature? Did Thracian rate him once upon a time? Oh yeah I served Iain Hume in Greggs in Liverpool City Centre when I worked there last year. Doing him Christmas shopping in October apparently. Very organised. Steak Bake, orange Lucozade and Iced Bun for anyone wondering. A very "sports science" diet! Did he miss the trough? I assume Waghorn blasted well over the bar and hit the toilet ceiling... Andy Peake has been round my house for tea (as a copper) loads of times. Was good friends with his son. There's nothing wrong with role play during sex games - or youthful (or elderly) homosexuality, Fair play, mate. Also met elliott ( who lived round the corner from me and am good mates with hoa daughter) and heskey through guppy. i went school with joe mattock and lee cox. That's not a very nice thing to say about Elliott's daughter - not very wise either; he's a big bloke. I hope you learned a bit more than Mattock... My old boss used too rent his house too Michael Lamey Who did he rent Michael Lamey out to? Doesn't surprise me - the bloke always looked knackered and off the pace. I did meet Nigel Pearson at an Al Murray gig in Loughborough last year Doesn't surprise me at all. Probably honing his act in case his career in football management goes pear-shaped. In all seriousness, I have the impression that NP is a seriously funny man - humour dry as a bone. I wouldn't put it past him to have made up that story about the 5 wild dogs in Romania, just for a laugh!
chrishlcfc Posted 7 February 2014 Posted 7 February 2014 Saw kyle naughton out in leicester once and went up to him and asked him if he wanted a drink and he stood there and laughed at me, ****.
Raw Dykes Posted 7 February 2014 Posted 7 February 2014 I gave Steve Walsh a packet of Polo's in the Co-Op in Thurmaston Did you know he was going to be there? I got my mum to take me to Thurmaston Co-Op coz I'd heard he was doing a signing. We turned up late, but we found him and his family sitting at a table in the cafe. I interrupted his quiet meal, but he still gave me his autograph. Not very vague, but I went to school with Matt Piper. I knew his brother who was in my year, but I only spoke to Matt, who is a year or two older, once.
Alf Bentley Posted 7 February 2014 Posted 7 February 2014 As a Leicester latecomer (only moved to the area 13 years ago), I can't offer more than 1 LCFC player encounter... - 2 months back, popped into the "Old Horse" by Victoria Park only to come face to face with a familiar figure. Dark and imposing, with the waist of a ballerina (seriously!) but the upper body musculature and tattoos of a cage fighter and the thighs of an ox that has spent a lot of time in the gym lately.....there he sat, supping (allegedly) a cool dark pint of Guinness. He conversed a little with his friend and with his mobile in Polish. I rose to leave. "Good luck, Wasyl, I hope it goes well for you at Leicester", I offered in parting, shaking his hand. "Of course!", he retorted, nodding slowly with confidence. A couple of odd non-LCFC "vague links" if you don't mind.... - In the early 1970s, Bill Dearden, then a footballer (inside forward a.k.a. attacking midfielder, I think) with top division club Sheffield Utd, lived next door but one to my Grandma & Grandpa in Sheffield; about 5 years ago, for reasons beyond explanation, I went with others to Mansfield v. Rochdale at Field Mill; Rochdale won 4-0 and Mansfield manager, Billy Dearden, was sacked. - In the mid-1970s, as a secondary school boy sentenced to detention (for skiving off when there was no work to be done), I found myself mending chairs with a lad 2 years younger than me named Andy Allon. About 12 years later, I was at the Crabble Ground with the other Folkestone Town fans in a crowd of about 2500, hoping against all realistic expectation, that Town could stuff the enemy, Dover Athletic, in the 3rd Qualifying Round of the FA Cup, although Dover were top of the division above the division that we were bottom of.....Andy Allon races onto a through ball, it's 1-on-1 against legendary ex-Town keeper Mo Munden and he produces the perfect chip as Munden goes to ground.....Nil ****ing one, Andy Allon is hanging off the Dover crossbar and hundred of fans are going wild. A second half of bravery and mayhem - and glorious victory. Lost to Gloucester next round, but a vague link to a non-City player that will have me smiling to my fvcking grave!
pleatout Posted 7 February 2014 Posted 7 February 2014 I may have reffed a sunday league game that Levi Porter played in. I say may, someone said after that he played, but i have to say no one stood out! My dad put a bar in to Brian Littles house when he lived in Barrow.
Guest Electric Yetis Posted 7 February 2014 Posted 7 February 2014 Played in the same school team as Conrad Logan & Tomi Petrescu Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Brauny Fox Posted 7 February 2014 Posted 7 February 2014 I believe it was a couple of days before the play-off final against Derby and there was a knock at my door. Opened it to see Mike Whitlow stood there! He wanted to know who's car he had just crashed into...turns out it was the next door neighbours who just happened to be sheep shaggers!!
Soar Fox Posted 7 February 2014 Posted 7 February 2014 Played in the same school team as Conrad Logan & Tomi Petrescu Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk I don't believe that for one minute. Logan actually played a game???
Guest Electric Yetis Posted 7 February 2014 Posted 7 February 2014 Played in the same school team as Conrad Logan & Tomi Petrescu I don't believe that for one minute. Logan actually played a game??? Haha yep, although he made a mistake that led to us getting knocked out in the National Cup last 16 (punched a defender in the head rather than the ball when trying to make a clearance)
brisfox Posted 7 February 2014 Posted 7 February 2014 If that lot are true, I'm seriously impressed Absolutely it is true. I was at City Boys with Lineker. He was also good at cricket and his form master, Dave Lawson, was also cricket coach. He told me that he had to sack Lineker as captain because, although he was a good batsman, he couldn't place a field to save his life. Said Gary had the best off drive he has ever seen.
brisfox Posted 7 February 2014 Posted 7 February 2014 Bumped into Peter Taylor in an Indian restaurant in Oakham just after he was sacked from City. Felt like telling him what I thought of him but he looked fed up as it was. I did feel sorry for the little twat.
Guest MarshallForEngland Posted 7 February 2014 Posted 7 February 2014 Knockaert stopped in his Mercedes to let us turn right out of Boundary Road after the Reading game earlier this season. My RE teacher at school was Emile Heskey's cousin (and presumably still is).
Raw Dykes Posted 7 February 2014 Posted 7 February 2014 I was in the same form as Carl Muggleton's cousin.
5waller5 Posted 8 February 2014 Posted 8 February 2014 Oh, just remembered one .... About 15 years ago Mike Stringfellow owned the newsagent that delivered my Mercury ... So I used to go and pay him every few weeks and ask him what he thought about the latest City news. Nice bloke.
pSinatra Posted 8 February 2014 Posted 8 February 2014 Dennis Rofe used to be our next door neighbour when I was a nipper (up until I was about 10 years old). I would like to say that we played football in the street together, but the only time I ever saw him kick a football was at Filbert Street. I've asked my Dad what he was like to talk to & all he said was "alright.....for a cockney". I regularly see Izzet & Walsh down the Clarendon. A couple of birthdays ago, I was having a drink early doors on a Sunday with a couple of mates. Izzet was stood at the bar with a couple of his mates & we got chatting shit. The legend that is Muzzy got a round in for my birthday.
GingerrrFox Posted 8 February 2014 Posted 8 February 2014 Me and my best mate took these birds out to Club Republic in town and we managed to swindle our way into VIP through knowing some people who worked there. Anyway I was absolutely off my face at the time and as we walked into VIP who was sitting there but Sol Bamba at a table with a group of girls and some other bloke. Sol Bamba was as smashed as me drinking champagne from the bottle, I looked at him and started screaming "Sol, Sol Bamba". Anyway he gets up and starts bouncing up and down dancing about, he was rumoured to be going to Blackburn at the time and I took it upon myself to make him guarantee he wasn't going to that "Northern Shithole". He put his arm round me and told me "My orange friend I am going nowhere, I will sign new contract at Leicester City, don't you worry". I got my mate to take a photo of me and Sol and I was on cloud 9. I turned towards Sol's table to have a look at the birds he was with to see the talent level. I looked and I saw none other than 4 girls who would get no less than an 8 on every man's scale and then I saw him.....Yann Kermogant. Yann Kermogant sat in the corner sipping on a bottle of vodka. I strode right over to him and being pissed off my face I sat right beside him and said, "**** it Yann". He looked at me and said "What do you mean?". I looked at him right in the eyes and said "**** it every c*nt has missed a penalty at some point in their career, don't worry about it." he glared at me and said "I don't want to talk about it." I stood up and said "Fair play mate but look at Gareth Southgate, he missed one for England and he's doing alright, you'll make it at some shit club soon enough". According to my mate, he was about 2 seconds away from punching me square in the face, until one of the girls started stroking his crotch. Oh well. Wonder if that's why he scores so many against us?
loAf Posted 8 February 2014 Posted 8 February 2014 Did you know he was going to be there? I got my mum to take me to Thurmaston Co-Op coz I'd heard he was doing a signing. We turned up late, but we found him and his family sitting at a table in the cafe. I interrupted his quiet meal, but he still gave me his autograph. Not very vague, but I went to school with Matt Piper. I knew his brother who was in my year, but I only spoke to Matt, who is a year or two older, once. Which school? I was at Anstey Martins and was in Ben his brothers year as well. Played football with Matt at lunchtimes a fair bit, also Matt Nurse who I also went to primary school with as well as Martins, who made several appearances on LCFC bench although never made it onto the pitch that i remember. I scored a penalty against him in primary school, the highlight of my piss poor footballing career. Used to drink in The Griffin in swithland when Birch owned it, used to bring out the food and insist on calling chips 'pomme frites'. A side one, not LCFC related, my dad used to play darts with Willie Thorne and his dad. Also,moved to Bahrain 5 years ago, and Peter Taylor turned up here as the Bahrain naitional coach a couple of years ago. got sacked after 18 months as he was still shit. saw him from a distance but didnt get a chance to tell him he was a c**t.
separator Posted 8 February 2014 Posted 8 February 2014 Met Elvis Hammonds uncle at work a few times a couple of years ago. He was working at Clapham North tube station at the time for anyone in London interested.
Merging Cultures Posted 8 February 2014 Posted 8 February 2014 Mahrez had a picture taken with my uncle a few weeks ago. My uncle's a Mercedes car sales man. When I was at Gartree High school City players would come and visit once a year.
foxfanazer Posted 8 February 2014 Posted 8 February 2014 Lineker signed my leg cast when I was younger. Also, when MoN was manager, me and my cousin went to Belvoir drive to watch the players train and unbeknown to us they were going to Filbo afterwards yo play a behind closed doors friendly against Wolves. Sir Martin asked us if we wanted to be ball boys for the game so obviously we jumped at yhe chance. He also offered us a lift but my cousin said 'no it's alright, we'll walk' idiot! Akinbiyi played in that game for Wolves so it must've been close to the end of MoN's tenure
Finnaldo Posted 8 February 2014 Posted 8 February 2014 Me and my best mate took these birds out to Club Republic in town and we managed to swindle our way into VIP through knowing some people who worked there. Anyway I was absolutely off my face at the time and as we walked into VIP who was sitting there but Sol Bamba at a table with a group of girls and some other bloke. Sol Bamba was as smashed as me drinking champagne from the bottle, I looked at him and started screaming "Sol, Sol Bamba". Anyway he gets up and starts bouncing up and down dancing about, he was rumoured to be going to Blackburn at the time and I took it upon myself to make him guarantee he wasn't going to that "Northern Shithole". He put his arm round me and told me "My orange friend I am going nowhere, I will sign new contract at Leicester City, don't you worry". I got my mate to take a photo of me and Sol and I was on cloud 9. I turned towards Sol's table to have a look at the birds he was with to see the talent level. I looked and I saw none other than 4 girls who would get no less than an 8 on every man's scale and then I saw him.....Yann Kermogant. Yann Kermogant sat in the corner sipping on a bottle of vodka. I strode right over to him and being pissed off my face I sat right beside him and said, "**** it Yann". He looked at me and said "What do you mean?". I looked at him right in the eyes and said "**** it every c*nt has missed a penalty at some point in their career, don't worry about it." he glared at me and said "I don't want to talk about it." I stood up and said "Fair play mate but look at Gareth Southgate, he missed one for England and he's doing alright, you'll make it at some shit club soon enough". According to my mate, he was about 2 seconds away from punching me square in the face, until one of the girls started stroking his crotch. Oh well. Wonder if that's why he scores so many against us? Hold on, so you were in a club, Kermogant was a tw@t and nearly hit you but Bamba was decent? That sounds familiar
Soar Fox Posted 8 February 2014 Posted 8 February 2014 Which school? I was at Anstey Martins and was in Ben his brothers year as well. Played football with Matt at lunchtimes a fair bit, also Matt Nurse who I also went to primary school with as well as Martins, who made several appearances on LCFC bench although never made it onto the pitch that i remember. I scored a penalty against him in primary school, the highlight of my piss poor footballing career. I thought his brother was called Danny? I've played football against him a few time on Sunday mornings. Also their dad has referred my a couple of my games on Saturdays.
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