Players youve met and where was it?

Many over the years but my favourite encounter was with Graeme Souness shortly after his transfer to Liverpool. So Graeme, I asked with just a slight ironic lilt in my voice Are you missing Middlesbrough? Aye came the reply, like a hole in the head.
 
Bumped into the legend Gareth Southgate and his family in the polar bear enclosure at florida...lovely friendly took a snap with him and I...he was announced as boro manner 1 week later....
It was bizarre as there was only him and his family plus me In the whole place ...surreal.....
Nice bloke though
 
Met loads of them usually in Yarm especially mid 90s Robbo era . Most memorable one though was Willie Maddren at his sports shop at Teesside Park as he attended to my shoe fitting .
There was I sat down and he dutifully stood over and I was speechless and overwhelmed . What a lovely humble fella as well as a top class Boro legend .

nb . The biggest pr)ck I ever met was Keith O’Neill in the Black Bull in Yarm , he truly thought he was Gods gift to women . I’d gone to the loo and came back and he was attempting to chat my wife up , on my return instead of shuffling away he carried on smugly chatting to her whilst I was stood there never acknowledging me . He very nearly got lamped .
 
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Got talking to Jim Platt one New Years Eve in The Westminster on Parly Rd 1972?
Spent 10 minutes chatting to Nigel Pearson after he had been in my wife’s school speaking to the kids. Top bloke.
Met him again walking out of Dickens with an artificial Xmas tree the same year.
Kevin Phillips and his family waiting in queue for a ride at Lightwater Valley. A really nice lad actually * cough*
Ali Brownlee at my school as the guest of honour at prize giving evening. Spent ages having his photo took with loads of pupils and he was as lovely with the first child as he was with the last. He came into my office for a cuppa afterwards. Warm, personable and very inspiring.
 
Is the use of the "Teesside nod" allowed?

If so then Stewy Downing in some pub over the border......my drunken " Now then Stewy (accompanied by said Teesside nod) " was replied with " Alright (accompanied by his very own Teesside nod)" on the way to the bar.

He never bought me a beer and I never bought him one
 
John Barnes , Paul Parker and Trevor Sincler in Dubai they had a soccer school and I ended up running the line for them at our hotel, I then bumped into John Barnes a month later in Newark Airport,he gave me a look as much to say I know you from somewhere but I’m not sure where.
 
What a thread to get resurrected.

Played with, for and against quite a few ex boro players. Dean Gordon, Nicky Mohen, Graham Headlley, Owen McGee, Steve Agnew, Danny Graham…few others I’ve forgot.

One player that does stick out in memory was Martin Gray…ex Mackem…used every dirty trick available to get an advantage.
 
Craig Johnston in the Madison. I was in complete awe as loved him as a player and can't remember what he said to this day.
 
Not a player, but I met Gibbo once in the taxi queue at Kings cross a few years ago. He was very pleasent and engaging when I told him I was a Boro fan
 
Ray Kennedy ( ex Liverpool ) on hols in Spain many years ago , lovely bloke and easy to chat to even though he wasnt well at the time
 
At La Manga on a golf trip in October 2016 (the year of our disastrous premiere league season). Three of us who were Boro fans searched out a bar showing the Boro v Watford game on Sky. For the entire duration of the match there were only four punters in there, the three of us and Kenny Dalgliesh.
His conclusion at the end of match (a turgid 1-0 home defeat) was that if that was all that we had to offer, we didn’t stand a cat in hells chance. And so it came to pass.
 
I’ve met several Boro players over the years. However, one year in the mid noughties we were motorcycling around France and spent the day in St Nazare.
We found a sports shop and went in and the owner was ex-Celtic and France defender Stephane Mahe. He is such a nice guy, we were in there for about two hours just chatting about football. He told us that he can walk down any street in any town in France and nobody would recognise him, but if he got a flight to Glasgow he’d be mobbed by fans. I think he also played for Hearts.
 
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