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I met Paul Bodin several times at my parents front door.
When he was playing for Bath City he had a part time job with a life insurance company and went around collecting payments
Mates with Steve Derrett, been to Blackpool on lads’ trips with him many a time. One story he tells was after playing in a Wales/Italy game, he swapped shirts with an Italian player, his own was soaking wet with sweat, snot, muck & bullets:hehe: The Italian’s was bone dry, clean and he had a vest on!!!
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Originally Posted by The Bloop
I’ve seen loads over the years , but of the current crop, I see Alex Smithies a lot , he is a lovely man and very polite. I think he’s a Huddersfield fan, so he must have had mixed emotions on Saturday
Don Murray in The Maltings, Canton in the late 80's.
Bobby Brown in the White Hart, St Mellon's.
Carl Dale in a travel agency in town.
Leo FW outside the old Western Mail offices. Had a good chat to him. Lovely bloke.
David Giles and his wife in the Castle Grounds. My dad used to work with his old man on the Council so started the conversation. Went from family to football to holidays. Talking to him for over 20 minutes. A really nice approachable and friendly guy.
Saw Kav with wife and very young family in town.
My friend/neighbour knocked on our door in Llanrumney carrying her newborn baby boy. She came in for a cuppa and a chat and I held the baby in my arms. He was Lee Baddeley.
did you mean to type that in the google searchbar?Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
Was on a cruise a few years back.
Keith Pontin was on there with his Wife and another couple.
Lovely guy.
We shared a cable cart in Madeira.
It was a polite request for a young lad, didn't moan when it was a no and moved on, but found it peculiar that the reason was he was.injured or something and shouldn't be out etc and there were middle aged men craning their necks to get in videos of him (having not asked) wasn't sure what difference it would have made.Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Corleone
Yes he is tiny :hehe:
He used to live two doors away from me in Llanrumney. I remember taking him down to a Wales v England game when he was a nipper back in the seventiesQuote:
Originally Posted by The Bloop
About a year or so before he left City I saw Peter Whittingham going into the Tesco in Penarth town.
For some weird reason I recall him wearing flip flops.
Various players in gyms. Surely the club have their own gym? Odd.
Damon searle (when he was a player) at the football pitches in Fairwater. He stopped and had a 20 minute game of 2-touch with us.
Jason Fowler at my friend's house - he was going out with my mate's sister. Not surprisingly, he never wanted to come out for a kick about with us.
Not me, but my dad said he saw Lee Jarman recently working on a neighbour's garden.
I remember sitting on the table next to Rossco at the custom house after a game when he was in his prime with his girlfriend and his girlfriends mother…. Both very nice.
The waitress dropped a glass on their table, I remember feeling quite protective lol
I had a beer with Carl Dale and Nathan Wigg one night in Newport Fugitives cricket club after they’d just arrived back from winning at Darlington. Jason Perry was there too but was more interested on checking out the dance floor.
Bobby Brown in Bookers in Haverfordwest. (He used to run the Rising Sun pub down here)
Seen Whitts on Queen Street with a group of boys I assume we’re his mates. All dodgy clobber like that famous photo of the Man Utd team out on the town.
Kav a few times in town. Once queing outside Creation. Funnily enough, he didn’t want to chat with a pissed up teenager from the valleys.
A load of the team in Soda bar at the end of the season. Must have been around 2012. Remember thinking Joe Mason was a young child. Had a pint with Super Kev. Enjoyed that.
Keys in the bowl?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wash DC Blue
Super kev out running near Sophia Gardens. I was running the other direction, with my city shirt on and he gave me a nod.
He was out with injury at the time and I regret not saying 'looking forward to seeing you back soon' or something but there was no time (obviously as I was running so very fast).
Fred Stansfield in his newsagent shop in Whitchurch
I used to chat to him when waiting for my Football Echo on a Saturday night. I also met loads when I was involved at Welsh League level and particularly remember an afternoon chatting with George Wood, who I saw every week, Don Murray and Nigel Rees after a game had been called off. The Giles brothers were also joint managers of my team and they were real characters. Spent an evening with Derek Tapscott when he was invited along as a guest for a game against Barry and Ron Stitfall gave me a bottle of wine he won in the raffle because he didn't drink. Ronnie Bird was often around as well because players in those days frequently stayed involved in local football. More recently, Derek Brazil was a great bloke and finally, I sat next to Brian Clark at a rugby international - he said he loved the atmosphere!Quote:
Originally Posted by Enoch Mort
Robin Friday, 1.5 hours before a game, lost near Cardiff Bus Station. Put him on the correct bus, resulted in free tickets for me and my mates.Quote:
Originally Posted by B. Oddie
The whole squad a few weeks before the FA Cup final in M+S Culverhouse Cross, going for suit fittings.
Cart!!! How the f*ck did they get the horse up there?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wash DC Blue
Steve Thompson dining at The Custom House in Penarth, a few tables away from us.
My wife asked him to autograph a paper napkin and he was very happy to. For our boys of course.....:wink:
Once upon a time, as a kid during the long-ago days of Harold Wilson and Alf Garnett, I was watching a movie at the Old Capitol Theatre, when I heard some rustling in the seats behind me. I turned around and there was Bobby Woodruff seating a couple of kids. He didn't stay with them. Probably just dropping them off while he ran some errand.
Doh!Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
That had just reminded me, that I have got Bobby Woodruff’s autograph.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimmyscoular
Our junior school had some sporting event at Cyncoed college in the mid seventies. Our football teacher saw him and told us about the Cardiff City footballer “over there” and cajoled us to go over to him and get his autograph, while we had the opportunity.
Unfortunately, as I wasn’t following City back then and I didn’t know who he was, I initially came back with the wrong signature.
I did go back and get the correct one.
Cohen Griffith in a restaurant in Cyprus.
Peter Thorne waiting for his medical at UHW.
Paul Millar and Nick Richardson on Cowbridge Road in Canton.
Peter Whittingham in St Davids Centre, Cardiff.
Jorn Schwinkendorf in the club Boardroom.
Also met Jason Perry, Damon Searle, Derek Brazil, and many others while doing TBL interviews.
The club boardroom doesn’t really classify as ‘out and about’, does it? ;-) Fair play for having actually met Schwinky though.Quote:
Originally Posted by tforturton
George Wood a right gobby kent.
Robbie James in Bradford
He was playing for CCFC and we had beaten Halifax , chatted to him in the players bar , he invited me back to the hotel he always stayed in when he was playing for Bradford
Arrived and they had the ticker tape out for him , welcomed like a hero
Told me bar was paid for and when I had had enough to ask at reception and they would give me a room
1993 I think 🤔
He was a minor celebrity up there . He loved playing for Cardiff , said it wasxa great way to end his career .
Rest In Peace Robbie James
John Charles in his shop in Rhiwbina
Rhys Weston, patiently waiting in a rather long Starbucks queue in Queen Street.
Garry Stevens, having returned home from an away game and drinking in the Queen's Vaults. Explaining to a group of City players how his downward header, in front of goal, had hit a divot and failed to go in. Exclaiming that it was just typical of his bad luck! :hehe:
John Buchanan, who was visiting his wife in the maternity ward of UHW, 1976.
Saw Joe ledley in town when he was about to leave us.
Saw David Marshall in Cardiff West services petrol station
Neil Alexander in Hawthorn leisure centre
Working away in North Wales seen Carl Dale a few times as he runs a electrical firm
Whitts could often be found down the ship inn in Barry
Damon searle goes up the tynewydd Inn in Barry sometimes after games.
On a side note I've Saw loads of celebs while working in London.
Mickey Rourke and Alicia Silverstone being the top of that tree.
John Buchanan in the Bluebirds Club 1976 . He was presenting the prizes for an Association of Supporters Clubs football quiz.
John Charles, my gran used to take me to look through his shop window in Rhiwbina to see if he was there
Willie Andersons labrador licked my face when I was connecting the street light outside his house in Radyr when I was an apprentice
I was star struck when I saw him so could only smile
Keith Pontin was my postman for a while when he finished playing
Morrison in B&M culver, I was behind him at till, he looked like 70's man without his ponytail in