Mikel Madar had just joined and tried to buy a contract mobile phone from me. Failed his credit check because he was living in the Moat House! Full on French temper tantrum in the shop😂
Duncan McKenzie presented our Sunday League team with awards once, Very friendly bloke.
Met Mick Lyons in the queue of the burger/kebab bar over the road from Mr. Pickwicks. We used to call it Pick-a-Dicks. I'm convinced to this day that the...
May 9th 1992, Jury's Hotel Ballsbridge Dublin. I'm 14 and a ball boy at the FAI Cup Final the following day (Cork City vs Bohs). My father and his buddies are in the bar watching the eurovison which Linda Martin won (why me?) so I head back to...
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...
Briefly met Richarlison when he was in a car on the way to watch us play Rotherham United in a League Cup match when suspended following a sending off for a headbutt against Bournemouth.
I also met Andre Gomes, Idrissa Gana Gueye and Jonjoe...
It was great in the 90s and all those little auction houses had many a bargain to kit out a house/flat.
Started to change from 2000 onwards and all those old warehouses being converted into flats was the death knell for the old area.
Dan Gosling got me and my mates thrown out of a nightclub in Bournemouth in 2015 because I wanted to say thanks for the winner against that lot and offered to buy him a drink.
Has made for some of the more difficult to explain hate watches in...
Had a good chat with Alan Harper back in the 80’s in an Indian restaurant on Allerton Road. Bizarrely Tom Baker, Dr. Who, was in there as well but not with Alan Harper
Also, bumped into Arteta in Sapporro after Derby in about 06/07. We lost 2-0 at home. Loved him then as he was immense. I just smiled at him like a crazy ex girlfriend as he collected his take out.