Ever rubbed shoulders with a footy player?

[gazXbrum]

How or where have you met or mixed with any footy player/s, and how did you find them to be. Did you find them quite down to earth and a good personality/character, or the complete opposite to what you'd expect? 

[jemma1989]

I spoke to Kitson after the Everton game in our first premier league season. He was a really nice guy. Very quiet and him and his wife (with their little one) were keeping to themselves, his wife actually started a conversation with me before Kitson came into the players lounge and she was so lovely. I spoke to other players but if I go on I'll get abuse and people calling me a name dropper etc.

[smigchop]

I met Kanu at west midlands safari park
;D

[addistokie]

a few of the villa squad used to play golf at the club i worked/played at. all were a great bunch. piss heads!
We used to go the mail box alot for food and drinks after golf...went to schmeichels house a few times and drove steve stones DB7

[addistokie]

Also know dicko so went to Zenn in VIP for promo night!! had matteo and wilko sign a boob each and pugh tell me i drank the best beer as was drinkin bud ;D

[Targaryen Stokie]

I've met Van Der Sar, sat on the same table as him at my aunties birthday party (my aunties son goes the same school as Edwin's son), I've also met Richard Cresswell on the car park before the friendly versus Real Vallodolid.

[march4]

One or two.

[PoisonedDonkey]

I saw Sidibe at the donkey sanctuary.

[cobhamstokey]

I met Tony Morley in a bar in Lanzarote a few years back a very modest and unasuming guy top bloke.

[boppa74]

Met and spoke to David Kevan and Ronnie Sinclair a few years ago in Yates in 'Castle - seemed decent enough.
Also spoke to Carl Hoefkins 2 years ago [when he was with the Baggies during our and their promotion season] as he was playing snooker on the next table to me in Rileys up 'anley duck! Again, he seemed a decent enough chap...pretty shit at snooker mind!
And finally, used to live a couple of streets away from Vince Overson when I lived on Waterhayes.

[Paddypotter]

I've met Pat Sharkey a few times in the local bar, he played for Ipswich along with Stan Bowles in the 70's. Always comes over for a chat about Stoke and always shows respect to the team we had then. Ipswich were a bloody dirty team then.

[shino]

lived quite close to Neil Aspin and my Dad knew him fairly well. An extremely nice guy he was too.

[stokeyhunter]

the best one ive met was peter hoekstra had plenty of time for you was speaking to you like you were his best mate and he ended up walking out the brit with us top guy to be honest

[SuperRickyFuller]

Saw Fuller in Fluid up Hanley once, Griffin when he first broke into the 1st team like 14ish years ago in Bargain Booze up Hartshill, met the 02/03 squad at an open day at The Bearpit when Quitterill first joined us, shook hands with Thorney, Kav, Wardy and a few others at Wembley when we won the Autowindscreenwiperthingy Shield, Alan Bloor's grandson plays in the same junior cricket side as my stepbrother and is a distant relation to me and I've had a piss next to Alan Hudson

Off the top of my head ;D

[boppa74]

Oops, forgot to mention that my old boss is the brother of former Everton midfielder John Ebbrell. He got us special passes to both his testimonial match and the do afterwards at a hotel in liverpool. Needless to say there were a couple of ex-players there, eg. Barry Horne, Gary Ablett and...........Peter Reids brother! ;D ;D ;D

[stoke624]

met hudy in a puub before chelsea cup game this season...had us all in stitches....also, i met simon sturridge, pesch and graham potter when we played brechin city friendly 1994. few days b4 super john clarkes testamonial at dundee utd. met dooobs in castle a few years back. top guy

[npowerstokie]

Spent a good 30 minutes talking to Andy Cooke at the bar in Brassingtons in Castle a fair few years back, most of the squad were in there, and spoke to a couple of the others in passing too, Andy was a sound bloke, it was while he was injured for about 4 months and was telling me all about his recovery and all sorts. James o'Conner was the only one who came across really up his own arse, nursed an orange juice with a face like a smacked arse for about 2 hours, barely spoke to anyone.

[boppa74]

May 20, 2010 20:51:40 GMT stokeyhunter said:

the best one ive met was peter hoekstra had plenty of time for you was speaking to you like you were his best mate and he ended up walking out the brit with us top guy to be honest

Fookin hell, forgot about Hoekstra. Saw him as well in a pub in Dublin a few years back when i was there during a stag weekend.

Didnt speak to him myself but one of the lads with us did.

Think thats my lot now!

[scfctilidie]

Met Leon Cort at Cheshire oaks, gentle giant ;D

Met Adam Rooney before, sound lad, bit of a joker

Met Georgie Berry in Bargain Booze after a match last season

[offthewall]

Yep, lots of players, lots of times.

I used to work at Wembley stadium, which helped.

[stokingstokie]

Bit of a weird one but my mum got chatted up by gavin ward a few years back! Took her to get a shirt and saw him at the desk on crutches and they had a good chinwag for about 20 minutes....took me to break them apart...

Myself, bumped into Super James and Brynjar a few years back outside a bakery Brynjar is a real cool guy and Super James is your typical brilliantly loud but funny ginger

[justinp]

I met Liam Lawrence, Andy Wilkinson and Carl Dickinson at Talke BP garage.
I had a lil chat with lenny. It was after the 1-1 with newcastle, said well done, he was like, yeah it was ok, I couldve played better, im a bit disappointed. Dicko was in the car.
I'm taller than wilko and lenny

[chazney]

use to be friends with John Halls, sound bloke. Use to sort me out free tickets, and in exhange gave him free tickets for alton towers and the rest of the players. Went up hanley once with him 2.

[Deleted]

Met David Hopkin the former Leeds and Palace player whilst on holiday in Salou
Was sunbathing on the beach in Las Americas Tenerife and Ronnie Sinclair walked by
Graeme Jones the Wigan assistant manager was in the same hotel a few years back in Malta when we were there
Got to know Scott Barratt when he was our goalkeeper after i rang him out of the blue for tickets when i found out he lived around the corner from me in Derby many moons ago.

[DannyStokie]

Alan Hudson drinks in my local pub

[johnnypotter]

Met lots of stoke players over the years, two who always have time for a chat are Mike Pejic and Alan Hudson.

[daveray26 nealy 27]

all of stoke team at the gym

[daveyboy93]

met shearer at the Newcastle training ground quite a while back i asked him for an autograph but unfortunately he refused to give me one :@

[oaties]

Been out on the piss with John Brayford who was at Crewe but believe he's gone Derby, knocks about with a load of my old mates, sound lad.

Also played with Ashton at Crewe in younger days and then also played against him. He was alright then nothing special but he turned out to be a decent player.

Had a chat with Pesch, met the ugly brothers (Nevilles)

Also have shared a few beers with forhead at Everton.

Spoke to Becks and Schmiceal or howver you spell it at a petrol station.

My crowning achievement is seeing Kevin Webster at a petrol station in a Toyota Rav 4 the big girl!

[salopstick]

why do you ask more questions than contribute to existing threads