how old is too old to ask a player for an autograph

[The Terminator]

i stayed after the game sunday as my lads were dying for gus and the lads autograph ,they went and got it and all that but i noticed a few middled aged men asking as well . now im not one for all that , but what is nsc view on the matter

 

[The Buttery Biscuit Base]

Never to old!

 

[See-Goals]

Primary school age. Anything older than that is a bit odd unless you're doing it for your kids or you're a collector.

 

[Mr Smggles]

I have a signed home shirt on my wall. I would not think twice about getting autographs on the new shirt

 

[TS90]

As long as you're younger than the player in question.

 

[Codner pharmaceuticals]

I had to stop one signing my shirt I sponsored. Didn't want it ruined with pen and all...

 

[strings]

I got my photo with Adam El Abd and Gordon Greer at Walsall... I am 26!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

CMS was happy to pose with anybody on Sunday. Had to check myself and stop from running over for a photo and an autograph. Remembered my age just in time.

 

[LowKarate]

The answer is 15 and when you're also taller than the player.

That's how old I was when I asked Dean Saunders for his autograph and whilst he was signing it, and I was looking down on him, I decided that maybe I was too old. Last autograph I ever asked for.

 

[Gully]

The answer is 15 and when you're also taller than the player.

I would suggest that is a reasonable guide, though I might suggest a little younger on the age at 12...but on the height, it would mean that the likes of Tiny Cox and Leon Knight only being asked for their autograph by toddlers!!!

I am well into my 40's and think it would be a bit strange to ask for an autograph from a player young enough to be my son...but perfectly acceptable to have my picture taken with a legend like Peter Ward, Gary Hart, Bobby Z or Gus Poyet!

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Each to their own, but I don't see the point of autographs - they ruin perfectly good shirts, footballs and photos.

Big signing are OK, though.

 

[ferring seagull]

Well sorry to be a saddo but I did get CMS to sign my programme on Sunday, and a photgraph. As a near pensioner, my grandsons who live a long way away, will be thrilled.

Promise I won't do it again.

 

[Seagull on the wing]

Well sorry to be a saddo but I did get CMS to sign my programme on Sunday, and a photgraph. As a near pensioner, my grandsons who live a long way away, will be thrilled.

Promise I won't do it again.

You do it if you want too,I'm 72 and ask for autographs,don't care what anybody thinks because I have a large collection of signed photo s going back to the 50s and I collect them for my disabled daughter who was once mascot in 2004,photographed with Danny Cullip,her grin lasted all day. I once met Bobby Smith and forgot to ask for his autograph,regretted it for ages (although got it later).

 

[Sussex Nomad]

I got Peter Osgood's in 1994 and acted like a schoolkid because he is my footballing hero, I would have been .... hmmmm errrr oh dear... 30.

 

[Durlston]

I got some of the Manchester City team when they lost at Barnet in 1995 (I was seventeen at the time). Niall Quinn, Paul Walsh, Nicky Summerbee and Steve McMahon signed my programme.

 

[Caveman]

12-14 years old.

 

[The Modfather]

Once you have left school, hang up your pen.

 

[HovaGirl]

About 99

 

[Sussex Nomad]

I used to hang about outside the entrance to the ... what was it in the west stand? Shop? Ticket booth? not really sure... but I digress, I used to hang about outside there as a 12, 13, 14, 15 year old for when they all came out a few hours after a game, a bit worse for wear but being a kid I had no idea. I saw all our legends week in and week out coming through that door, Lawro (never played for us really), Knobby, Sully, Wardy, Spider, Stevens a little later on but still part of the Mullers squad I believe, Maybank, The Tank, Towner the wing wizard, Pottsy the ginge, Eric Steele, Mullers himself. I once nicked a big cigar off my dad and took it to a game when I was around 14 and presented it to Sully after the game, cos he was always smoking them ... it was a bit worse for wear but he thanked me anyway. They also did for two years a christmas party at the Old Forge at East preston and obviously we found out, living in the village and all that, knobby on one occassion asked us if we wanted cake outside the window, we wanted cos we were sweet toothed kids, he had it on this wooden knife type thing so just splattered us with it, literally chucking it at us. I remember asking the Tank Clarkey in the bar for Maybanks autograph, when he said he wasn't there, I said I know I want you to do it ... got a few laughs from the pissheads. I remember a 17 year old Gary Stevens taking one of our bikes to go for a ride up the road, he was so pissed he had no idea where he was... good days... sorry for going on!

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Sorry what I should have said is I got all their autographs, some more often than others.