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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: BillyStubbsTears on May 26, 2013, 10:36:26 am
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Just got back from a week in the States with work.
Thursday, I was in the hotel bar, when this big Yank heard my accent and asked me where in UK I lived. I told him Sheffield, at which he says, "So are you a WednesDay or Utd fan then?"
"Neither" says I. "I'm from a small town near Sheffield and I support them. You probably won't have heard of them."
"Try me" he says.
"Doncaster Rovers" says I.
He did the face palm thing and shouted, "Jesus Christ! I'm a Brentford fan. I was at Griffin Park that day."
Turns out a couple of his business associates in London are Brentford fans. Took him to a game 10 years back and he got hooked. He flew in from the States for the match the other week. I ends up buying him a beer to commiserate.
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Ok, thanks.
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Haha, nice one BST. I had a similar experience at work recently although I wasn't half way around the world, I was about 3 or 400 yards from the Keepmoat.
One of the big bosses in our organisation (4/5 grades above me at least) came in to address everybody about the uncertainty of our jobs, redundancies etc. He gets everyone in the boardroom and starts with "Before we get onto the work stuff, are there any Doncaster fans in here". I made myself know. He says "I'm a Brentford fan, I was there the other week, it was awful". I said "I was there too, it was amazing!". Apparently his 6 year old had turned to him during the match and said "Daddy do these people from the north always make so much noise?" :D
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seems that you have volunteered for redundancy there :
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I did think that at the time, but fortunately he was coming to tell us all that the outsourcing idea has fallen through and we're all safe!
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Like me last year at Chocolate Fest in Wisconsin. The chap on the next booth to me was from Senegal, we spoke about football and he reeled off a list of names he knew. Diouf, Silva ( the keeper who trained with us, the other keeper who played for New York ( international), he shared an appartment with him. He also named several others at English clubs. We had a great conversation.
It just shows how small the world is getting.
A similay situation was at a show a couple of years ago , when I was taalking to another booth holder. He noticed my accent and asked where I was from.
I said Doncaster but had lived for several years in the Halifax area. Oh. he said, my cousin married someone from Manchester, she is a nurse and he was a teacher.
Without knowing any names, I said no, she married a Yorkshireman. I then gave the pair's names and was spot on. It turned out that his cousin and her husband were friends of mine back in Halifax.
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Once in Corsica .. a guy asked where I was from I told him the town ( in France ) .. OK what part .. told him .. what street ... told him .. what number ... told him ... ok I don't know it !!!
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Knew a girl in sixth form who slept with our then keeper Gary O'Connor on holiday.
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I used to go out with Dennis Peacock's daughter...although I was 8 at the time!
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I once spotted a rovers beach towell in benidorm.
Does that qualify?
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I once spotted a rovers beach towell in benidorm.
Does that qualify?
That might have been me :-)
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I once spotted a rovers beach towell in benidorm.
Does that qualify?
That might have been me :-)
....what? You used to be a beachtowel? :o)
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About 10 years ago we were on holiday in Italy staying in an Agriturismo (farm converted into about 10 appartments) and chatting to one of the other families we found out they were from Donny. They were from a street which I used to visit a lot - one of my best schoolmates used to live there - we are talking about 40 years ago. I then told them the housenumber and they now live in the very same house and bought it directly from my schoolfriend's parents about 20 years ago.
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As a lad I once damaged myself quite badly while staying at a mates place in Burton on Trent. My M&D were on holiday in Cornwall at the time. Mother of friend wanted to get hold of my Ma and Pa so, as they were out on the beach, the friendly natives sent someone to run up and down the beach shouting their name saying 'urgent message!' My M&D didn't hear this messenger, but good God above, Mick Cowan was on the self same beach. He knew my Dad very well, and me quite well. He heard the message and went on the prowl for my parents. He spotted them, and after the amazed 'What the devil are you doing here' stuff passed on the message., Dad did whatever he had to do about me, and then him and Mick spent the rest of the week in the pub boozing and reminiscing....
Cheers
BobG
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My sister went to school with Terry Curran's daughter - does that count?
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I was in Vegas in 2000, me and a mate booked a trip in a Cesna by-plane to the grand Canyon, anyway we get there and was in a plane with another family and the pilot (of course). A few minutes into a very bumpy flight, there little boy mentioned he felt sick as did i. His Dad spoke and i looked across and recognised his face. He was in the year below me at school and grew up just up on our street. Both couldn't believe it, and to top that after landing and following on the conversation the pilot from San Diego said he was married to a woman from Doncaster and even got married there when he was based in the UK with the USAF, his wife was from Thorne.
Unbelievable!
Sadly this was the most amazing thing about that little trip, as the Grand Canyon is hardly a visitor attraction, (walk from plane, stand at the edge, look down, ooohhhhh, get fleeced by the indigenous with Ornaments fashioned from Bat Shit, return to plane).
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During the summer hols while at Uni I once spent a very pleasant evening gambling, with someone elses money, in Reno. Eventually, at about 2 in the morning, I ended up at Reno Greyhound bus station (actually it was Continental Trailways buses I was using in those days) ready for the next kip on a bus to nowhere in particular. As I walked through the doors, who should I see but this bloody gorgeous girl from my seminar group at Uni. She was a cracker she was. Joanna her name was. 2 in the morning in a bus station in Reno and about 5,000 miles from home. Who would believe it?
BobG
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Bob
And? And? Did you two ...err... study together? Eh? Eh? Know what I mean?
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Unfortunately not Billy. I would have quite liked to though... I did suggest a motel room for the night but she turned me down :(
If you ever come across Joanna Slonecka, you might suggest she could make up now for what she missed out on then? As she's in New York these days you might come across her...
Cheers
BobG
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Bob.
I think you've got the wrong impression of me and my globetrotting. I've been to New York once. Ten years ago. I was in an internet cafe in Times Square when I found out that we had signed McIndoe, a couple of days before flying back to London for the match at Orient.
Since (and before) then., I've spent more time in New Rossington than New York.
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I'm off to LA and San Francisco at the end of next week and will want my money back if I don't bump into Adriano Rigoglioso and Dino Maamria.
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It's alright Billy. I was just being ironic. I think.
It's a shit town anyway.
BobG
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I live in Moncton, NB, Canada. I wear my Rovers scarf when its a bit nippy -20! People are very curious to ask about my scarf and who is my team, I explain Donny Rovers, and in which league etc. One psychologist I know have vouched to follow Rovers, just because he likes the name. I might have to start a Rovers fan club over here :scarf:
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I went to school at the same time as Kevin Keegan.
9. o`clock. :coat:
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You would have been late at 9am, Keegan and the rest of the school started at 08.50am.
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Remember going to Fleetwood a few years ago, before they were big time (they were Conf. North I think). Crowd must have been about 50. There was a bloke in a Rovers shirt there.
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Small World:
About '92' Had a phone call on a Wednesday. Could I get a guy to Hong Kong to do some work for Disney? Go myself I says. Jumped on a plane on the Friday with only the site address and the promise that the Contract Director would turn up on site to meet me. Sure enough in walks this guy and starts talking to me with a very similar accent. Where you from? he asks. " Donny" I says. I'm from Leeds he says but our lass is from Donny. I met her while constructing the B@Q in Donny, she worked at the pub over the road. Fancy a pint?
Off we goes for a pint and he tells me she was a barmaid at night but a theatre nurse at DRI during the day. So's my Mum I say.
Next day he walked in and said that his wife knew my mother really well and had worked together for years. That was the beginning of a short and beautiful, but drunken relationship. He was the Contract Director for Asia including Australia and any little jobs he could send my way he did. Alas he operated out of Hong Kong and the Chinese put a stop to anybody working there that couldn't be replaced by a Chinese operative.
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Went on holiday to Mallorca, hear some chap talking to his son about the goalkeeper on the table football being Neil Sullivan.
Turns out its only JonWallsend off t'forum like.
Much poolside transfer speculation was had by all.
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I once got on an early morning Alitalia flight to Rome. The guy in the seat in front was Martin O'Neill. Looked pretty rumpled he did too.
Cheers
BobG
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Went on holiday to Mallorca, hear some chap talking to his son about the goalkeeper on the table football being Neil Sullivan.
Turns out its only JonWallsend off t'forum like.
Much poolside transfer speculation was had by all.
Happy days, Moses. Menoraca this year if you haven't yet booked.
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Several years ago, I was with the family at Epcot when a lady approached my daughter (who was playing in a fountain in her Rovers shirt), and asked her if she liked Donny Rovers.
She replied, "Of course! Do you?"
"You could say that," she said, "Mickey Walker's my father-in-law!"
Only Rovers fans I've come across over here in 12 years, and it's Mickey Walker's family.
Small World indeed.
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In 1979 me and two mates went to Benidorm. First night out we went in a bar and it was empty apart from three birds. Because of the lack of competition we chatted them up. Fortunately they were more naive than us, and our 'experience' in chatting up impressed them!
We asked them where they were staying, and guess what, they were in the same hotel as us!
We asked them where they were from, and guess what, amazingly they were from Doncaster!
Now the one I got off with (Forgot her name) said she worked in the Leeds building society in High street, Doncaster. I told her that I was a professional musician (I was lying).
I know that she told the truth though because when I met my future wife a couple of years later we opened an account at the Leeds building society in Doncaster, and who should serve us..........Yes it was her. Now either she had a poor memory, or she was a bloody good actor because she never showed any signs that she knew me.
We used the Leeds society for several years after that and she always seemed to serve us.
Although I haven't seen her for a few years now, I must admit she was getting on a bit last time I saw her and was starting to look a bit rough. It was obvious she hadn't looked after herself. Maybe she was just embarrassed that at least I'd made an effort.
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Several years ago, I was with the family at Epcot when a lady approached my daughter (who was playing in a fountain in her Rovers shirt), and asked her if she liked Donny Rovers.
She replied, "Of course! Do you?"
"You could say that," she said, "Mickey Walker's my father-in-law!"
Only Rovers fans I've come across over here in 12 years, and it's Mickey Walker's family.
Small World indeed.
It should have been outside Its a Small Small World but of course that is in the other half of the Park !
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Went on holiday to Mallorca, hear some chap talking to his son about the goalkeeper on the table football being Neil Sullivan.
Turns out its only JonWallsend off t'forum like.
Much poolside transfer speculation was had by all.
Happy days, Moses. Menoraca this year if you haven't yet booked.
Missed you by a year. We were there last year Talaylot appartments Cal'n'Forcat I think the resort was. Good place for us every bar had a kids playground.
Going over to the dark side this year with an all inclusive family hotel in Portugal.
When
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Several years ago, I was with the family at Epcot when a lady approached my daughter (who was playing in a fountain in her Rovers shirt), and asked her if she liked Donny Rovers.
She replied, "Of course! Do you?"
"You could say that," she said, "Mickey Walker's my father-in-law!"
Only Rovers fans I've come across over here in 12 years, and it's Mickey Walker's family.
Small World indeed.
It should have been outside Its a Small Small World but of course that is in the other half of the Park !
Ghaaaahhhh, I've got that bloody song going through my head now.
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Sorry RTR
I too find once you think of it its hard to shift
Went to visit a mate years ago who packed in and went to live there with young kid. Went to meet them from School first day there and he said "don't blame me for the music that they play at kicking out time". Sure enough out they came to the instrumental version of Small Small World !
Also I met a family one year in Spain somewhere and there were 2 Grandparents 2 Parents and 2 kids and the kids were giving me their toys and generally wanting me to play football etc. Grandad says my god you are honoured they usually blank people.
Exactly 1 year later we went on the same week to a totally different place abroad somewhere and at breakfast on the first morning there they all were. I told them where I planned to be the following year but of course I never saw them again
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Was in Sussex last week and went into the Tourist Information centre in Arundel.
The man on the desk asked where we were from as he recognised the accent. Turns out he worked for DMBC for 17 years before he retired down south and lived round the corner from the wife's parents in Bessacarr.
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Once in Corsica .. a guy asked where I was from I told him the town ( in France ) .. OK what part .. told him .. what street ... told him .. what number ... told him ... ok I don't know it !!!
Brian. Just a thought. You didn't come home to find the house had been cleaned out did you?
I once read (Daily Mail most like) that burglary gangs used to snoop round airport baggage drop off places looking for address tags on suitcases. So they knew that folk were going to be away and houses empty.
I got wise to it. I started putting the address of a complete t**t that I used to work with on my luggage.
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Went on holiday to Mallorca, hear some chap talking to his son about the goalkeeper on the table football being Neil Sullivan.
Turns out its only JonWallsend off t'forum like.
Much poolside transfer speculation was had by all.
That Jon Wallsend gets everywhere. Met him on a Plane flying to Bristol or the jpt from newcastle then again in. Random cafe in the north east.lovely bloke.