I've just found my old AUTOGRAPH Book

[Hiney]

Full of the signatures of Sussex Cricket LEGENDS, such as:

Jerry Groome
Mike Griffith
Geoff Greenidge
Bob Fleming (isn't he the bloke from The Fast Show?)
Peter Graves
Paul Phillipson
Tony Greig
Jerry Morley
Imran Khan
Mark Faber
John Spencer
Chris Waller
Giles Cheatle
John Parker
Javed Miandad

Plus a load of other legends:

Glenn Turner
Barry Richards
Dennis Amiss
Andy Roberts
Vanburn Holder
Basil D'Oliveira
Sadiq Mohamed
Wasim Raja
Intikhab Alam
Asif Masood
Zaheer Abbas
Richard Hadlee


Bloody marvellous

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

I got Garry Sobers in mine about ten years ago when he was at Arundel for something or other.

Marvellous scenes

 

[Basil Fawlty]

Fantastic Hiney, last year in the winter nets Chris Waller coached me. I have to thank him for my 47 wickets this season, he has really improved my game.

 

[Knightsworld]

Fantastic Hiney, last year in the winter nets Chris Waller coached me. I have to thank him for my 47 wickets this season, he has really improved my game.

This winter get some coaching from Handy Andy on how to put a dartboard up.

 

[Basil Fawlty]

This winter get some coaching from Handy Andy on how to put a dartboard up.

Oh ha ha ha. :thud:

 

[Hiney]

Fantastic Hiney, last year in the winter nets Chris Waller coached me. I have to thank him for my 47 wickets this season, he has really improved my game.

He must be well OLD now, I got those autographs in 1974 and 1975!

 

[Basil Fawlty]

He must be well OLD now, I got those autographs in 1974 and 1975!

I think he is in his 50's now, he has improved my game alot though.

 

[Hiney]

I think he is in his 50's now, he has improved my game alot though.

Just looked it up on cricinfo - he's nearly 58!

I don't suppose Freddie Flintoff will be coaching at that age!

 

[Basil Fawlty]

Just looked it up on cricinfo - he's nearly 58!

I don't suppose Freddie Flintoff will be coaching at that age!

I don't think Freddie will, he can still bowl damn well. Chris can bowl a lethal leg break.

 

[Marshy]

i will give you a tenner for it...

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Chris can bowl a lethal leg break.

can he...?!

 

[El Presidente]

Chris Waller coached me too in 1979, converting me from someone who had never even played for the school team to a place in the Sussex U-19 squad.

The man is a GOD

 

[NS Herald]

Somewhere I've got the whole Man Utd 79 team (I think) of Martin Buchan, Steve Coppell, the Greenhoff brothers, Sammy McIlroy, Lou Macari, Gordon McQueen etc. etc. PLUS Sir Matt Busby and Dave Sexton. They're in the loft somewhere and may be worth a bob or two??

Busby was a true gentleman who told me his 'favorite' player was a certain Mr. George Best

 

[El Presidente]

I was the first person to tell Ian Botham he was in the England squad whilst collecting autographs outside the Langlands hotel in 1978 (?) when Sussex were playing Zummerset in a JPL game one Sunday

 

[Tooting Gull]

Chris Waller is a bit of a legend, though my limited ability proved too much for his coaching genius.

I remember trying to get Rod Marsh's autograph along with another kid of about 10 in the 70s at Hove. The amenable Aussie told us both to f*** o**'. Probably shouldn't have asked him to sign himself 'Short fat pisshead'.

 

[Hiney]

i will give you a tenner for it...

It's going on eBay later - I'll post the link!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Ah, but can you beat Bruce Forsyth?

I got him when I was a kid, and other pro-celebrity golf circuit "legends" such as:

Tarby
Kenny Lynch
Roger DeCourcey (and Nookie Bear)
The bloke with the comedy emu act (not Rod Hull, the other, alive, one)
The shame!

I also got a load of proper golfers like Nick Faldo, Sandy Lyle, Bernhard Langer and Seve.

I had Bobby Charlton, Geoff Hurst, Alan Ball, Geoff Boycott and Fred Trueman. And I have a postcard signed by Don Bradman.

All this- yet by far the most treasured one in my collection was the former Albion captain Danny Wilson.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I call your Kenny Lynch, and raise you one Leslie Crowther!!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Very well, I'll see your Leslie Crowther, and raise you one Lionel Blair

I just remembered the name of the comedy emu guy: Bernie Clifton

 

[Trufflehound]

Roger DeCourcey (and Nookie Bear)

Stood behind him once in the checkout queue in a petrol station.



Somehow I resisted the near uncontrollable urge to twat him...