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Daily Mirror article on PL stars and autograph requests

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Not surprised ours replied - they are great at this type of thing. Remember sending Cahill a birthday card to sign for my son, came back about a month later with an apology from Tim for it being late as he had been on international duty etc , He included a photo with aproper personal message to him not the ready printed ones. Son was made up - such a nice thing to do.
 

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Yarmolenko is a 'good signer', he'll fit right in here.

*sends Bill to Kiev dressed as a schoolboy to stand outside the stadium waving a subtly folded contract*​
 
obc said:
The Mirror sent autograph requests to three star players on each team in the Premiership. Identical letters, envelope, etc, posing as season ticket holders.

70% snubbed them.

Article is here.

TL;DR important bit:

Three Everton players – Romelu Lukaku, Leighton Baines and Tim Howard – were the first to send signed photos.


Good on the Blue lids.
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Doesn't surprise me one little bit.

When I was a boy I regularly cut pictures out of Goal or Shoot or Charles Buchan's Football Monthly and posted them to Goodison to have the likes of Bally, Howard, Westie, Labone, Gabriel, Jimmy Husband etcetera sign them.

Never had one disappointment.

Half my bedroom wall was taken up with signed pictures of Everton players ;)
 
Think it's possibly unfair to name and shame players considering they might not even see the requests. I imagine a lot of clubs deal with the players' mail and just lob a lot of it away.

Anyhow, good to see ours signed.
 

Not picking them up for any other reason that it was the only one that was different, but, what does this mean?
via Liverpool’s website, ones of Steven Gerrard, Daniel Sturridge and Mario Balotelli.
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Did they send him a link to download and print off his own?
 
Or, does it mean they ordered the autographs off the club shop? Just seems wierd, as even if they sent it via an e-mail through the Website team and marketing, then surely thats not right to request it off them in a different way to all the other clubs.

Just out of fairness like....
 
Maybe Liverpool don't allow fan mail to reach the players from the stadium post, as they are smart in the knowledge that you cant send bullets on an e-mail.
 

big bobs beard said:
Not surprised ours replied - they are great at this type of thing. Remember sending Cahill a birthday card to sign for my son, came back about a month later with an apology from Tim for it being late as he had been on international duty etc , He included a photo with aproper personal message to him not the ready printed ones. Son was made up - such a nice thing to do.
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I remember being on my first trip to Liverpool back in October 1990 and was staying with my dad's cousin and her family in Crosby. Her son was about 12 at the time and he'd already collected all of the first-team signatures except one -- it might have been Ebbrell or McDonald, the memory is a bit hazy on that. Anyway, I'd managed to gain admittance to Bellefield to watch the lads train and had a chat with Colin Harvey. As agog as I was over the whole experience, I managed to remember I needed that one signature. The players had already gone in, but I asked Colin if he'd mind getting the autograph, otherwise my cousin would have had me deported. He laughed and told me to wait. Five minutes later the book was back in my hands and I was a hero to my young second cousin. My grandfather having played for Marine only added to it, but that's another story.
 
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