Post by Mr.Necom on Dec 2, 2020 19:10:33 GMT
Amusing meetings with footballers. Share your stories here.
I saw that Paul ‘Simmo’ Simpson moved today in game 8. Derby to Real Madrid, good move for the lad. A personal favourite of mine, the future manager of Carlisle, Preston, Stockport County and the England under something side came through the ranks at City and was a star of the promotion team of 1984-85. I remember we had to win our last game of the season at home to Charlton, which we did – 5-1. Simmo scores the fourth.
To celebrate I just watched this.
Great fifth from David Phillips too. I’m going to start another thread up about him soon. Andy May scores the second for City. He also scored when we beat Huddersfield 10-1 a few years later, but he was playing for Huddersfield that day. Anyway, he lived just round the corner from us in a bungalow next door to the Shady Oak pub – where we would not long after hold a few of the early Necom meets. He was a nice bloke and I was gutted when we sold him but this isn’t that interesting a story, I just wanted to get in the bit about early Necom meets, great memories of Mark Pinder’s car in the Shady Oak car park (bumper sticker – “Don’t laugh, your daughter might be inside”). Other more amusing stories may have been when I parked my car across Sun Jihai’s drive and he couldn’t get in, when I met Peter Reid in a pub in Oxford Road (“I’m afraid I was very, very drunk”) or, though he’s not a footballer, it’s always worth mentioning the time when my son, at that point 5 years old, wandering around reading his Lego Ninjago comic in the doorway of H&M in the Trafford Centre tripped up the very tall Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff.
Share your stories below. Have you met any famous footballers. Maybe you had a curry with some bloke who used to play for QPR. Or did work experience for Danny Bergara? Speak.
I saw that Paul ‘Simmo’ Simpson moved today in game 8. Derby to Real Madrid, good move for the lad. A personal favourite of mine, the future manager of Carlisle, Preston, Stockport County and the England under something side came through the ranks at City and was a star of the promotion team of 1984-85. I remember we had to win our last game of the season at home to Charlton, which we did – 5-1. Simmo scores the fourth.
To celebrate I just watched this.
Great fifth from David Phillips too. I’m going to start another thread up about him soon. Andy May scores the second for City. He also scored when we beat Huddersfield 10-1 a few years later, but he was playing for Huddersfield that day. Anyway, he lived just round the corner from us in a bungalow next door to the Shady Oak pub – where we would not long after hold a few of the early Necom meets. He was a nice bloke and I was gutted when we sold him but this isn’t that interesting a story, I just wanted to get in the bit about early Necom meets, great memories of Mark Pinder’s car in the Shady Oak car park (bumper sticker – “Don’t laugh, your daughter might be inside”). Other more amusing stories may have been when I parked my car across Sun Jihai’s drive and he couldn’t get in, when I met Peter Reid in a pub in Oxford Road (“I’m afraid I was very, very drunk”) or, though he’s not a footballer, it’s always worth mentioning the time when my son, at that point 5 years old, wandering around reading his Lego Ninjago comic in the doorway of H&M in the Trafford Centre tripped up the very tall Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff.
Share your stories below. Have you met any famous footballers. Maybe you had a curry with some bloke who used to play for QPR. Or did work experience for Danny Bergara? Speak.