I was in a lift with Tony Mowbray today.

Lemmy_kilmister said:
On the topic of not-as-tall-as-i-thought-he'd-be, I walked past Phil Thompson and his Mrs on Hanover Street in Liverpool...not as tall as you would think
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I met Botham. Not that tall, but really stocky. Fat, yes, but more than that. Really stocky.
 
Hap said:
And the wife really upset Peter Beardsley.
She got me his autograph, because she knew he was a footballer, but wasn't sure who.
Then she couldn't read his writing, so asked him what it said. (He didn't like that).
Then she couldn't understand what he'd said, so asked his friend to interpret.
(He didn't like that)
Then she gave it to me.
(I didn't like it)
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Obviously
 
Hap said:
And the wife really upset Peter Beardsley.
She got me his autograph, because she knew he was a footballer, but wasn't sure who.
Then she couldn't read his writing, so asked him what it said. (He didn't like that).
Then she couldn't understand what he'd said, so asked his friend to interpret.
(He didn't like that)
Then she gave it to me.
(I didn't like it)
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Dog dirt.
 
Hap said:
I've ignored both Charltons, Frank Worthington, Emlyn Hughes, Terry MacDermott, Dave Bassett and Suzi Mitzi (not known for her ball skills tmk)
I'm rubbish with celebs.
Talked Gary Palisters ears off in the Tall Trees but he was stuck with me and neither could escape.

I don't like meeting famous people. It's awkward.
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Agree about this. When I lived in London I was once fiddling about with my acoustic guitar, hungover, with the window open. I broke into a little rendition of Whole Lotta Love with my mate and we belted it out at the tops of our voices, still a bit ***ed from the night before.

5 minutes later, walked down stairs to go and get some hangover snacks from the Sainsbury’s Local over the road, opened the front door and whose stood there? Jimmy Page. He was buying a piece of art from the gallery downstairs. Me and my mate didn’t really know what to do, so we just walked past him like he was the local rag and bone man. For the rest of the day we couldn’t quite believe what had happened. He had very likely heard us playing and singing his riff/song.

My mate actually has the 4 Led Zeppelin symbols tattooed on his forearm.

Apologies if this isn’t the first time I’ve posted this story on the board. But yeah I agree, meeting celebrities is 5h1t, and weird.
 
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I went to the same gym as Jason Steele for a while. Me being a huge fan I was dying to just go up to him and say YOU”RE BLOODY BRILLIANT YOU! I LOVE BORO ME LIKE!!
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I thought I’d come across like that Alan Partridge fan (I stopped wearing boro gear to the gym too) thinking it might make him feel uncomfortable.. so I was quite stand offish maybe even to the point of being rude. Then he left and moved to Blackburn.. silly really because we would have definitely ended up being best friends and having cool nicknames for each other and going on holiday where he’d see me doing kick ups on the beach and say that I could have probably been a footballer and loads of lasses fancy me.

Ah well..
 
Red_is_best said:
Hahaha, I guess you work all over world @borolad259, but I fondly imagined you on your laptop in a log cabin in Lapland talking to your ex-military mate by satellite phone to get The End updates. Not Leeds 😄
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:D I do work all over but haven't been in Lapland since September. It's a bit nippy up there at the moment. Probably won't go back until the spring.
The End updates come by email or in our teams meetings, which are fun because you get his entertaining facial expressions and body language to go with the amusing language skills.

Anyway, back to Boro stories. Souness used to lodge at my mate's auntie's house on Roman Rd. He used to come and kick a ball about with us now and again. Ditto Willie Whigham on Tollesby fields. They were both about the size that I expected.
 
borolad259 said:
:D I do work all over but haven't been in Lapland since September. It's a bit nippy up there at the moment. Probably won't go back until the spring.
The End updates come by email or in our teams meetings, which are fun because you get his entertaining facial expressions and body language to go with the amusing language skills.

Anyway, back to Boro stories. Souness used to lodge at my mate's auntie's house on Roman Rd. He used to come and kick a ball about with us now and again. Ditto Willie Whigham on Tollesby fields. They were both about the size that I expected.
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Tollesby fields and the artie? My stamping ground, that.

and a chap called Robert.
 
borolad259 said:
Victoria car park Leeds. Only realised just as we were getting out. He motored off through John Lewis. Saw him a bit later wandering into Flannels, seemingly in the tow of his missus (I hope it was his missus).
He wasn't as tall as I had imagined. I didn't bother him like, even if I kind of wanted to let him know he's a hero. Pointless thread this, I know. Maybe other tales of spotting Boro heroes at the shops.
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I once saw him in guisborough Forest must have been walking with daughter. About 18 months ago
 
Hap said:
I've ignored both Charltons, Frank Worthington, Emlyn Hughes, Terry MacDermott, Dave Bassett and Suzi Mitzi (not known for her ball skills tmk)
I'm rubbish with celebs.
Talked Gary Palisters ears off in the Tall Trees but he was stuck with me and neither could escape.

I don't like meeting famous people. It's awkward.
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Bizarrely I have also shared a lift with Dave ‘Bertie’ Basset. I also saw Barbara Windsor coming out of the same said lift later in the day.
 
A mate of mine is a very good friend of Mowbray.
I won't tell any tales but will just say that he's an absolute diamond of man.
 
Often used to see Rhys Williams in Tesco Ingleby Barwick doing his weekly shop, on my way home from school. Thought he was a giant of a man, but I was even shorter than I am now (5 7).

Once spotted Victor Valdes in the vitamins aisle in Boots Teesside Park, didn't occur to me that it was him until he headed to the pharmacy counter (I was working as a dispenser there at the time) and there was a unit of a man, a multiple league/champions League winning man, stood before me looking for advice on vitamins for his kids. I kept my cool and talked him through the many vitamins and we decided to go ahead with the 3-for-2 offer.
 
I went to University with Pam Royale. She gave me a lift home once in her VW Beetle to Middlesbrough. I had a sore throat so she did all the talking.
 
atypical_boro said:
Agree about this. When I lived in London I was once fiddling about with my acoustic guitar, hungover, with the window open. I broke into a little rendition of Whole Lotta Love with my mate and we belted it out at the tops of our voices, still a bit ***ed from the night before.

5 minutes later, walked down stairs to go and get some hangover snacks from the Sainsbury’s Local over the road, opened the front door and whose stood there? Jimmy Page. He was buying a piece of art from the gallery downstairs. Me and my mate didn’t really know what to do, so we just walked past him like he was the local rag and bone man. For the rest of the day we couldn’t quite believe what had happened. He had very likely heard us playing and singing his riff/song.

My mate actually has the 4 Led Zeppelin symbols tattooed on his forearm.

Apologies if this isn’t the first time I’ve posted this story on the board. But yeah I agree, meeting celebrities is 5h1t, and weird.
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You sound Dazed and Confused.
 
atypical_boro said:
Agree about this. When I lived in London I was once fiddling about with my acoustic guitar, hungover, with the window open. I broke into a little rendition of Whole Lotta Love with my mate and we belted it out at the tops of our voices, still a bit ***ed from the night before.

5 minutes later, walked down stairs to go and get some hangover snacks from the Sainsbury’s Local over the road, opened the front door and whose stood there? Jimmy Page. He was buying a piece of art from the gallery downstairs. Me and my mate didn’t really know what to do, so we just walked past him like he was the local rag and bone man. For the rest of the day we couldn’t quite believe what had happened. He had very likely heard us playing and singing his riff/song.

My mate actually has the 4 Led Zeppelin symbols tattooed on his forearm.

Apologies if this isn’t the first time I’ve posted this story on the board. But yeah I agree, meeting celebrities is 5h1t, and weird.
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This reminded me of a YouTube video I seen years ago. Busker playing Small Town Boy as Jimmy Somerville walks past (assuming it wasn’t a set up).

Smalltown Boy
 
My wife chased Emmanuel Petit through the mens department to the lift in Harrods.
He was in an ankle length sheepskin and fur coat. He could perhaps have been the only bloke able to carry the look off.
When she arrived at the lift, the door had opened, he got in, turned round and there was a kerfuffle as she just gawped at him not moving while others were trying to get in.
The door closed ending this brief encounter and as the lift ascended, my wife remained in place looking at the doors in despair, knowing when they next opened it would not be her Manu stood there.
I stood waiting for her to turn round again. When she did her face was still flushed, but there was such a look of disappointment when she clocked me.

He was also taller than I thought he would be.
 
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