Tenuous connections to footballers

td53

td53

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My best one is that I went to the same high school in Wigan as the legendary, unforgettable if you saw him pool loanee Neil Whitworth. He left the year I started I think.

The second best is my dad used to work with a bloke who knew Dave Bambers dad.

Now you.
 
Junior Bent used to be my bank manager.

I Then taught both his kids.

Are you allowed a double on one player?
 
One of my best school pals was a footballer.

My parent's neighbour is a former footballer and now professional coach.

My dad's 2nd cousin is Roy Aitken.
 
David McNiven was my milkman for a while in St.Annes.

I bought a kiddies' buggy off Andy Hinchcliffe.
 
voyeur said:
My wife worked with his mum. We needed a buggy. Andy Hinchcliffe had decided not to have any more kids We eventually left it on the prom at Portsmouth when we realised we'd got the time of our ferry to France wrong and panicked. You don't own buggies, you just look after them for a while.
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That didn't disappoint. 👍

There's something magical about how whoever found the buggy didn't realise it had once belonged to an England international footballer...
 
When my parents moved to Preston in the seventies, they bought their house off Tom Finney. He was very friendly but rather ‘tight’ and wanted an extra fiver for an integral clock on the sitting room wall! I delivered his mail to his new house on my bike… 😀
 
Through junior football my mum & dad were friendly with Steve Harrison.
Steve was playing cricket in our back garden with my brother & myself when the ball disappeared into next door where Winston the biggest ever alsation lived. We wrote the ball off, no one messed with Winston. Not Steve who used the cricket bat on Winston's head. Full respect.
I declared 100 not out. Not an Australian in sight 😅
 
Went to school with Eddie Howe's nephew Andy and met him at a few birthday parties. He was only a Bournemouth player at the time (when they were shite) so wasn't really bothered.
Also met Le Tissier at a Pantomime, made awkward small talk with Marlon Harewood in a Carrefour in China and briefly dated a girl who had previously gone out with Bradley Wright Phillips and Titus Bramble. 😄
 
I was once introduced to Alan Brown and Bill Perry by my mate's dad, stood around before a match. Unfortunately I was prob too young and cocksure to be fully aware I was in the presence of greatness.
 
The secretary where I worked in Manchester was married to ex City and Northern Ireland player Steve Lomas.

My Aunty Mary lived next door but one to Morty.

Been on a night out with ex Everton players Barry Horne & Andy Hinchcliffe.
 
Paul Bracewell picked me up from work. My lift share mate was working on his house and his car broke down so Paul gave us a lift home.
 
Not a footballer but Kenneth Wolstenholme used to visit our house often to do with some charity he and my dad were Involved with .
 
Scotty Taylor lived about 200 yards from me and that was when he was playing for us.
Believe he’s an electrician now but no idea where he lives.
 
look.its.luke said:
Went to school with Eddie Howe's nephew Andy and met him at a few birthday parties. He was only a Bournemouth player at the time (when they were shite) so wasn't really bothered.
Also met Le Tissier at a Pantomime, made awkward small talk with Marlon Harewood in a Carrefour in China and briefly dated a girl who had previously gone out with Bradley Wright Phillips and Titus Bramble. 😄
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Awkward small talk with Marlon Harewood in a french supermarket in China is a pretty flippin' good entry...
 
ansdellmafia said:
Not a footballer but Kenneth Wolstenholme used to visit our house often to do with some charity he and my dad were Involved with .
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On a similar theme, albeit cricket, my godfather is, or was, Don Mosey, the TMS stalwart of years gone by.

My auntie used to live in Burnley in the early 70s and was best friends with Sammy Todd's wife. Burnley and Northern Ireland, as Shoot used to say.
 
Stick with me on this one.....My ex brother in laws, brother found out that he was in fact Danny Ings half brother about 2 years ago.
He found out that Danny Ings dad liked to play away with his mum....and now he's has changed his surname to Ings

My sister went out for a date with Andy Grey after he followed her home, and asked her out 😳 seems he saw her getting into her car....and BOOM

Johnny Giles was the (occasional) manager of our junior school football team when he was manager of WBA....and his son was in my class..

I once sold John Barnes a pair of Neon purple, Versace trousers for £400
 
B_Side_The_C_Side said:
Stick with me on this one.....My ex brother in laws, brother found out that he was in fact Danny Ings half brother about 2 years ago.
He found out that Danny Ings dad liked to play away with his mum....and now he's has changed his surname to Ings

My sister went out for a date with Andy Grey after he followed her home, and asked her out 😳 seems he saw her getting into her car....and BOOM

Johnny Giles was the (occasional) manager of our junior school football team when he was manager of WBA....and his son was in my class..

I once sold John Barnes a pair of Neon purple, Versace trousers for £400
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Well that’s it for me I’m off to bed, I just can’t compete with all of that
 
My daughter sat next to Tosin Adarabioyo in maths at high school and he kept asking her out apparently.
 
td53 said:
Awkward small talk with Marlon Harewood in a french supermarket in China is a pretty flippin' good entry...
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He was playing for a team in Guangzhou. I clocked him in the deli aisle and for about 5 minutes had the internal battle of whether he was actually Harewood or whether I was being a 'they all look the same racist'.
Eventually sidled up to him and whispered, "did you used to play for Villa and Blackpool?" while he was looking at goats cheese.
Marlon sort of mumbled, "yeah mate, do you want a photo" and for some reason I went "No you're alright I was just checking", which embarrassed us all. Not a classic story 😅
 
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