Sporting Heroes Who owned Shops...

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Another Newport goalie - Gary Plumley set up an Estate Agent business.

[A Quiet Monkfish]

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Bob McColl

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When I were a boy, Pompey were challenging for the Div 1 championship in the 1950s.
They had two red-hot wingers - Peter Harris and Gordon Dale.
Harris was my hero. Fast, beautifully balanced and direct. He was capped by England and would have had many caps if Mathews and Finney weren't around. What was really great was that from where I was in the crowd, when he cut in from the edge of the penalty area, my eye line was straight behind his run towards goal. Superb! I would see him shopping with his wife on Saturday mornings before the game. I was a winger back in the day and we reached a cup final at Fratton Park. I recreated Harris' run for twenty seconds. Didn't score, but I'll never forget that feeling.
I know, I know......shopping doesn't cut it.
But Gordon Dale - the guy who scored after 25 seconds against Matthews' Blackpool once - did have a shop about 100 metres from where we lived. He was a newsagent. A more grumpy an ole sod you wouldn't wish to meet.

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Didn't Gary Bell run a pub in the East Midlands / Cambridge area where City fans would visit when the club were playing Cambridge away

wasnt that dave carver

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wasnt that dave carver

Yes, see post 39

[poc]

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Yes, see post 39

[The Bloop]

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Paul Parry had an estate agents in Llandaff North a few years back.

Years ago, after he left Cardiff and was playing for Bath City, Paul Bodin had a part time job collecting insurance premiums door-to-door. I only know this as I opened the door to him once at my parents house.

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Ronnie Bird, also had a hairdresser shop in Churchill Way

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Can’t remember Ronnie in the Golden Cross (not saying he wasn’t there), but he definitely had the Romilly pub

I worked for him there 95 , 96 if I remember

Loads of city fans drank in there before he took over the Romilly

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Jeff Smith - legendary Goal Minder for the Cardiff Devils in the early years - ran an electrical shop in Wellfield Road - Smith and Weston.

[The Bloop]

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Jeff Smith - legendary Goal Minder for the Cardiff Devils in the early years - ran an electrical shop in Wellfield Road - Smith and Weston.

He now runs the Big Moose charity and coffee shop

[the other bob wilson]

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I worked for him there 95 , 96 if I remember

Loads of city fans drank in there before he took over the Romilly

The Golden Cross used to stay open until two on Saturday mights around that time, used to get in there a lot then - Ronnie Bird was the landlord at that time and he was always happy to chat about his playing days, he also did a good job of cutting my hair in the seventies.

[Toggs]

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Mike Tiddy ran a post office in Helston, Cornwall, I bought some postcards from him and had a good chat about the city when on a family holiday in the late 70s, he gave me a programme from a Cardiff - Swansea Town game in the 50s. Nice guy.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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I am racking my brain trying to remember which ex-footballer started up Len Ashurst Trophies......

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The Golden Cross used to stay open until two on Saturday mights around that time, used to get in there a lot then - Ronnie Bird was the landlord at that time and he was always happy to chat about his playing days, he also did a good job of cutting my hair in the seventies.

I would have served you

Although you did look underage tbh