evertondotcom
Player Valuation: £15m
James McFadden called my mate a “cheeky cu*t* outside Bellfield after he asked him how Will Young was.
He had a point.
He had a point.
I'm sure Howard would have said 'you're'.
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 bloke who ran the burger bar was Graeme Sharp. I asked him but he said 'No' but he did anmit he had been asked the same question many times
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 bloke who ran the burger bar was Graeme Sharp. I asked him but he said 'No' but he did anmit he had been asked the same question many times
BackRow PE6
Player Valuation: £225k
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
Benicetoourboys
Player Valuation: £6m
The dirty dog, gone off him.
Bruce was seeing one of the barmaids in the Strawberry tavern backing the day. His party piece was juggling empty pint glasses. He was a good laugh.Not really an Everton story, but more of a “stick it to the RS story”
On millennium eve I’d been invited to this massive party at the house of a friend of the family who were absolutely loaded. Massive house in Willaston. I was 18 at the time.
They’d had this huge marquee put up in the garden for the do, plus a second one that had a load of rented in games in it. Pool table, arcade machines… and a table football table.
A few hours into the night and I’ve obviously had a few drinks. Not hammered (yet) but definitely more than a bit merry.
Couple of mates and I wander into the games tent, and there’s Bruce Grobelaar holding court on the table football table, having apparently beaten a bunch of people in a row.
Now, one addition to the story. We had the exact same table in our 6th form common room, and I had spent WAY too much of the preceding 18 months playing on it. Table football might actually be (depressingly) the thing I’ve been the most above average at in my life.
Anyway, after (very little) goading from my mate, I step up and “challenge” Grobelaar.
Beat him 7-0 in a match that lasted no more than a minute and half at most
It’s the little victories.
Leylo
Player Valuation: £35m
When we won the cup winners cup and league just after there was a award ceremony at supporters club City road me and my mates were up there only young teenagers didn't know it was happening .we were up there gonna kick some other lads heads in for giving one of the lads sisters a terrible time anyway nothing happened,but we were there and there was 2 boxes outside honestly no one there and it was the league trophy and the cup winners cup.i was gobsmacked all of a sudden Kevin Radcliffe skids on to the curb in his xr3i and says alright lads nearly got you haha ... feckin maddest five minutes..
The world has changed.
Gazza moved on from there to the Woolton Redbourne with Five Bellies. ( now the house of one of the owners of the B&M empire )
He was constantly pissed and apparently very well liked and extremely generous.
He was living in his daughters house by us for a while - think he had money troubles.
He was a regular in the local members club and used to drink in there with a neighbour of mine, who`s not into football in anyway at all, but said he was very good company, a top laugh and well liked by everyone in there.
Tony Hibbert's Wife
Player Valuation: £500k
Firm I worked at in the early 2010s sponsored Crewe Alex so we got 'hospitality'. Thing was, nobody ever wanted to go and watch Crewe Alex so I used to take all the tickets and go with my mates. Bank holiday weekend game, we'd all been drinking all day and all through the hospitality. Got to my hospitality seat and sat next to me was Joe Royle. Couldn't help myself, I just blurted out "you're my dad's hero!" Nice bloke. Chatted a bit about the 95 Cup Final. Mixu Patalaainen was also sat a couple of seats down, scouting for Hibernian. Didn't speak to him - he looked like a very serious bloke but Joe Royle did have a good chat with him.
Not me, this one, but a mate. He was a very good footballer and an extremely good looking bloke. He was working at a finance house in Singapore in the 2000s and got invited to play in a charity match in a team containing Brian Robson and Steve McMahon. I think they were on the commentary team for premier league football in Singapore at the time. He plays the game and then there's an after party. He gets drunk and starts nattering to Steve McMahon's wife who's, so he says, is getting a bit tactile and flirty with him. Next thing my mate knows Steve McMahon is in his face threatening him and then chases him out of the function brandishing a bottle of wine.
Other footballers: Jermain Defoe and I helped some American tourists get their luggage off a train at King's X.
John Terry told me to stop taking a photo of him walking into a bookies (foul language removed).
I bumped into Joe Cole (literally) at Keele Services.
Marco Gabbiadini told me to eff off when I asked him for an autograph after a Derby County training session (I was 13. What a charmer).
Not me, this one, but a mate. He was a very good footballer and an extremely good looking bloke. He was working at a finance house in Singapore in the 2000s and got invited to play in a charity match in a team containing Brian Robson and Steve McMahon. I think they were on the commentary team for premier league football in Singapore at the time. He plays the game and then there's an after party. He gets drunk and starts nattering to Steve McMahon's wife who's, so he says, is getting a bit tactile and flirty with him. Next thing my mate knows Steve McMahon is in his face threatening him and then chases him out of the function brandishing a bottle of wine.
Other footballers: Jermain Defoe and I helped some American tourists get their luggage off a train at King's X.
John Terry told me to stop taking a photo of him walking into a bookies (foul language removed).
I bumped into Joe Cole (literally) at Keele Services.
Marco Gabbiadini told me to eff off when I asked him for an autograph after a Derby County training session (I was 13. What a charmer).
davids
Player Valuation: £70m
Who's the other fella?
davids
Player Valuation: £70m
Went there often,a mate owned it for a while. The fun part was watching little Kevin's antics on the door. Those who went there more than a few times may have witnessed.
Gazza drank in The Fox in Speke, and got the landlord's daughter pregnant.
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