Another thread that will show peoples age. How is the nicest person you hace ever met in football. It can be anywhere, stadium, pub, out and about anywhere The nicest person i have met was Chris Powell, a few years ago we was talking about football and he come across as a top bloke he talked to people with respect and spoke very well. After we spoke he shook my hand and carried on talking to other fans. With countless nob heada in football nowadays all footballers are all thought to be overpaid, ego driven arseholes. But there is some who come across as geniune people who interact with fans and dont think they are to important to speak to the public. Another person who was very polite was Sven. Albeit i have never really spoken to him he was a gentleman which everyone respected. When he was England manager to newspaper could never say a bad word about his character or personality. So who is the nicest football you have met?
I've met Cloughy and Best and they were both really nice at the time, which sadly was when they were very ill and off the grog. Steve Walsh predictably for me though, someone I was in awe of when I bumped into him in Krystals! That would have been the early 90's!
Andy King and Michael Morrison came into work together and were nothing but just great guys who were so easy for everyone to talk to.
That´s going back abit. I remember meeting Jochim in there once...erm... in the toilet, no dad I´m not gay. We both came out moaning that someone had been doing the pot (weed) He had a very large.....................entourage as I remember. I met Tommy Williams back in the 80´s doing his garden at the top Goodes Lane in Syston, became a copper I think.
Here's a rather wacky one ... the firm I worked for at the time was holding a Budget day seminar for clients at Sopwell House near St Albans in Hertfordshire back in the 90s ... at the time Arsenal used to train there and when the seminar was over I went to get my cloak from the cloakroom - a slim pimply dark skinned youth was stood in the entrance to the cloakroom so I politely asked him to move so I could get to my coat which was not far behind hime .. he looked quizically at me and I could itell then that he was not Englsih ... he pointed at the coat and I nodded .. at which point he lifted it off the hook and passed it to me .. i thanked him and he smiled and shyly muttered 'welcome' ... just then Martin Keown walked up, nodded towards me, then put an arm around the youth's shoulders and steerd him outside to a waiting coach ... it was Nicolas Anelka before he had made his first team debut - very difficult for me to see how such a nice polie lad turned into 'L'enfant Terrible' ..
Went to the same school as Tommy Williams - he was in the sixth form when I was 11 and was our idol (think he was captain) - our school First XI got to the semi-final of the English Schools trophy that year (1971 I think) only to lose to Cheltenham ..
Ian Marshall, Robbie Savage, Graham Fenton. Oh, and of course Muzzy. Met them all when lad was mascot for the Portsmouth pre-season friendly, around 1999 - 2000ish. Top lads every one of them, I can't have a bad word said about Robbie, no matter how much bollox he talks. Tell you waht though, he wouldn't be able to ruffle sons hair now like he did back then, not without a step ladder anyway!!
I used to live near to Gordon Banks when I was a lad. He always took the time to talk to us when he was tending his front garden. Those were the days when world cup winners lived in semi detached houses!
I haven't met many ex-Leicester players actually, but I have meet lots of the top players from the late 90s early 00s when my dad was an autograph dealer. We used to visit hotels in Notts when they were here to play Forest. My sister has a pic of Cantona holding her (she was about 10 at the time I think), but I'd go for Gianluca Vialli, since he bought be some popcorn why I watched him, Zola and Wise play cards. They were all very nice (even the latter I have to admit!). Tony Adams and Alex Ferguson were real dicks though. Ferguson actually had a go at my dad several times (he was very protective of Beckham and Giggs and my dad was caught three times in one night trying to get Beckham's autograph!) and indirectly referenced him and his fellow dealers in one of autobiographies. Also did a uni project with Ilkeston Town and the late Keith Alexander was a very helpful and down-to-earth man. Very sad when he died.
Mark Wallington - Used to deliver his Mercury on East Goscote, always gave a good XMAS tip - Perfect Gent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luuaIKFSShQ Look out for a young Graham Taylor leading out Watford
Mark Hughes and Kerry Dixon. I met Hughsey when he came to Filbert St for a testimonial. In his team was Ruud Gullit who was a complete knob. He came out the ground and went round the back of the coach, then sent his agent to tell us he wasn't signing any autographs. Anyway Mark Hughes seen this and said to give him 2 minutes, then Hughsey got off the coach and signed for everybody. I then met Kerry Dixon who was with his misses and he asked me where the nearest chippy was, so I took him down Narborough Rd and had a good chat with him. Great bloke
I remember a while back when Manderic was the owner and we played Portsmouth in a pre-season. After the game I hung out with my mate who was a bit of an autograph hunter (I had bugger all to do) and met with a few of the players - nicest of whom was one David Nugent who went out him way to greet everyone and pose for photos. Pedro Mendes was up for laugh too - especially when my mate told him he scored an excellent goal against Man Utd. [video=youtube;U-8dOjeVC80]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-8dOjeVC80[/video] Harry Redknapp was nice too - had a good bit of banter when I started up a 'Harry for England' chant.
