Many years ago I was dating a girl who worked locally as a hotel receptionist. After a year or so, she was promoted and transferred to Blackpool. Initially I travelled there every weekend and we spoke on the phone most nights.
Over time my calls...
Two weeks before the FA Cup Final in 1995 I went to Bellefield training ground and was shown round by Ray Hall, we were in the canteen which was upstairs and heard this grunting as someone was running up the stairs. In walks Duncan Ferguson. I...
When I was 10, Johnny Morrissey came to our house to say hello!
I used to go to the “Boys Club” in our local Church hall on a Friday night, 5 a side, table tennis etc! One particular Friday I couldn’t make it as had been in Walton Hospital for...
Pre season game at Winsford before the 84/85 season. My manager at the time was a friend of Mark Higgins, and got me and a mate tickets for the directors lounge. It was set up to give Sheedy, Harper and Gray a run out before the Charity Shield...
Dai Davies was our PE teacher for a bit, obviously he probably wasn't putting the effort in that he did as a player but it did let a load of kids in North-East Wales think they had a chance at being a professional footballer.
Also there was a...
On a related theme, my stag weekend in Galway 2008 coincided with a Liverpool ‘Legends’ team playing a fixture against the local side. We bumped into them in a bar in town and I spent a good couple of minutes ranting at Bruce Grobbelaar, calling...
Been to Vilnius, great place.
Do any of the other places mentioned in this thread have a massive Tony soprano statue in a train station?
No they don’t.