Footballers you have met/had a tweet from?

[Soup Ladle]

Some of them yes regarding retained lists and so on and what he's like to work under.

 

[The East Terrace]

Used to work for a furniture company and looked after Manu Petit's account, very nice bloke. Chat to Stevenage players in the gym, tend not to talk about results. My mate reversed into Wozciech Szczesny's Porsche last year, didn't seem that phased when posing for a picture with my mate afterwards.

 

[Judge Red]

Well, I used to play at school alongside some of the Crawley team - but I'm not sure you could call them footballers. Some of them were part of the team in our 11 point season way back in the Southern League days .
Apart from that, I had a cup of tea in a cafe with Bobby Tambling way back when I was a kid (my parents knew some friends of his). I also met the Blackpool goalkeeper when I was a kid (he lived around the corner from my grandfather). He was fixing his car at the time - the days before crazy wages LOL.
Also, many years ago I worked in the printing trade. The manager was a guy called Arthur Dexter. He was already well past retirement age when I was 20 (I'm 58 now).. Apparently, he had been Nottingham Forest's goalkeeper back in the 1920s/30s. I just checked on the internet and found his name - so the story probaby was true. He used to stand outside the shop floor office each morning waving what appeared to be one of those old football rattles - but silent. Apparently it was a device to test the humidity in the print shop (paper could crease or go wavy if the humidity was too far out). He seemed quite an aloof character who was probaby from the era when workers and management kept contact to a minimum. The only times I had cause to converse with him was when I was deputy shop steward for a while. Should have got his autograph . How different from today's top players who are set for life when their playing careers end.
EDIT: Nearly forgot. When I was working in the old Safeway supermaket in East Grinstead (near Crawley) a few years back, who should walk around the corner doing his shopping but Andre Kanchelskis

 

[epic73]

I've met most of the San Jose and LA MLS players. In one game.

 

[BeesKnees]

Having Akinde, Gash, Nelson and Yiadom join the fans in the away stand yesterday was pretty cool. From what I've heard Nelson lead a lot of the chanting.

 

[dedwardp]

Edit: completely forgot. I also met Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in Sainburys when I was about 12/13 and told him my favourite player was Beckham. Footballers probably don't like me.

Haha, this reminds me of when I was about 7 and I wrote a letter to Micky Stockwell to tell him he was my second favourite player, behind Karl Duguid. He sent me back a signed photo.