Have you ever bumped into an ex player on holiday?

[RandyWanger]

I met Jimmy Case* in Venice. Although I'm pretty sure it was him, we watched the 'boro game last season in an Irish bar.

Might not have been him

What's he up to now?

 

[tricky]

Met Iain Dowie at heathrow terminal 5 a few years back. I said hi but he was in a total flap as he was late for a flight and had left his ticket somewhere. On another occasion at heathrow I saw Carlton Palmer sitting in the airside bar - it was so hard not to shout out CARLTON as per Graham Taylor

 

[kentgully]

Had dinner and after dinner games with Liam Brady at a mutual friend's house......smashing fella

 

[Ernest]

I once SAW Paul Jewell at a PARTY at [MENTION=29916]Kellie[/MENTION] 's house but he was too BUSY to talk at the time

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

He is.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/luton_town/6140922.stm

Luton manager Newell was furious that assistant referee Amy Rayner failed to award his side a penalty in the 3-2 loss to QPR.

He said: "She shouldn't be here. I know that sounds sexist but I am sexist. This is not park football, so what are women doing here?"

Newell was incensed that Rayner and referee Andy D'Urso failed to award his side a spot-kick when QPR defender Marcus Bignot tangled with Carlos Edwards in the penalty box.

"It is absolutely beyond belief. When do we reach a stage when all officials are women because then we are in trouble?"

"It is tokenism - for the politically-correct idiots," said Newell. "We have a problem in this country with political correctness and bringing women into the game is not the way to improve refereeing and officialdom. It is bad enough with the incapable referees and linesmen we have but if you start bringing in women, you have big problems."

Marcos Bignot. The man who ended Charlie Oatway's playing career,

 

[KingstonSeagull]

As a child my parents got chatting to Tony Adams and his Mrs, ended up planning to go on holiday to the same place at the same time as they got on so well a couple of times. Not too sure why we stopped doing that.

 

[Return of the Rev]

Hurst,Charlton and Brooking drinking at the next table in a hotel bar in Mexico city 86

 

[mac04]

I met Frank Worthington with the Sunderland team in Majorca in the few days between the 1983 Cup Final and the replay. I asked him if he thought Gary Stevens was good enough to play for England. Frank told me "No, he wasn't".

A year later Frank was playing for the Albion, and Gary was playing for England.

 

[Return of the Rev]

Sully dog waking

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Bobby Robson on a cross channel ferry who proceeded to tell me to f**k off, and people say he is a NICE guy

HE WAS BEING CRUEL TO BE KIND THOUGH
regards
DR

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

hurst,charlton and brooking drinking at the next table in a hotel bar in mexico city 86

B. robson getting the beers in
regards
DR

 

[Return of the Rev]

As a child my parents got chatting to Tony Adams and his Mrs, ended up planning to go on holiday to the same place at the same time as they got on so well a couple of times. Not too sure why we stopped doing that.

Met Adams at 2015 final also Paul Merson at the same final, also met Paul Merson at the mall in Brighton a few years earlier,very nice bloke but Adams only gets a 3/10

 

[Nigella's Cream Pie]

Sully dog waking

Cruel - let sleeping dogs lie!

 

[Exile]

Marcos Bignot. The man who ended Charlie Oatway's playing career,

Was that not Marcus BEAN?

 

[Easy 10]

I interviewed LARRY MAY in the clubshop once, as part of my school project. Which was nice of him.

 

[Yes Chef]

Not on holiday but a few years back I was working at the Goodwood estate and I had to do a breakfast barbecue for a golf day, called the Paul Jones Invitational or something. I assumed it was a corporate jolly, and didn't think too much of it, but it was ex-Wales and Southampton goalkeeper Paul Jones, and I arrived at work to be greeted by Sugar Ray Clemence looking for a bacon roll.... There was a whole host of 80s/90s footballer, including our own Jimmy Case. It was like the panini sticker albums from my youth had come to life (and aged twenty years). Jamie Rednapp was very friendly, so too was Luther Blissett and, erm, Graham Rix. My own personal highlight was getting the aforementioned organiser mixed up with Nigel Martyn.

 

[Brian Fantana]

Had dinner and after dinner games with Liam Brady at a mutual friend's house......smashing fella

Keys in the bowl style, or...

 

[Lich Seagull]

Bumped into Dean Hammond at Centre Parcs (Nottingham) last month during half term holiday. He was with family and holidaying with David Nugent and family. Had a quick chat about his time and nearly re-signing. I did enquire whether Nugent would be keen on signing - he just laughed! I then later tweeted Dean (my new holiday friend) but then appeared to avoid me for the rest of the week - did that staring into distance thing whenever paths crossed!!

 

[Easy 10]

Bumped into Dean Hammond at Centre Parcs (Nottingham) last month during half term holiday. He was with family and holidaying with David Nugent and family. Had a quick chat about his time and nearly re-signing. I did enquire whether Nugent would be keen on signing - he just laughed! I then later tweeted Dean (my new holiday friend) but then appeared to avoid me for the rest of the week - did that staring into distance thing whenever paths crossed!!

Maybe if your Twitter handle wasn't "filthyfulltoss" he'd have been more receptive

 

[atfc village]

Worked on a Building site with Glenn Cockerill just after he'd been sacked at Woking . Funny thing was we were both working for The Woking Chairmans Construction Company . Turned out to be a top bloke aswell.