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RE: Does anybody really know me?
1971 was a great year indeed Sam 😁
I remember you sharing your pic with Lifehouse but I never knew about the Wayne Rooney picture! How cool is that, you trendsetter Sam you!
I have popped in to see you today Sam as part of this wonderful Dreemport Ecency challenge and to comment as one-half of The Charming Rascals 😁 Enjoy the challenge and have a wonderful Week 1 ~ Let's do this 💪
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Aw thank you Ed! Always lovely to see you on my posts 😍 A very welcome guest indeed hehe. Yeah the Wayne Rooney thing was pure chance... was up in Manchester the day he signed. Took my folks on a stadium tour that I had booked months before... The tour guide took a call on his radio then turned to us and said you guys are the first fans to know... Wayne Rooney just signed for Manchester United haha it was surreal... then he was like... woah and what have we here... and there was Wayne and Sir Alex walking down by the pitch... towards us. I snapped a quick pic... from a distance zoomed in... and called out to him as he passed and he looked up and waved to us. Left the stadium and it was surrounded in camera crews... I asked what they were doing there and this one guy was like... waiting for Wayne Rooney if he's even in there... I said lol yeah he is... I just saw him... he was irritated with me, brushed me off saying yeah right... how did you even get through the front door??? My answer... um I just booked a tour of the stadium haha...simples really! and yeah I know he's in there cos I saw him and I have a pic of him...seriously i was mobbed!!!!! the Sky news lady came to my rescue and would not let me give the pic away for free to the print vultures haha... so she told me to ask £100 per non exclusive right and not budge...walk away if I had too...they would bite... 1/2 hour later there was a queue outside the ATM at Old Trafford of media reps drawing £100 lots and swearing off SKY under their breath...it was hilarious... I gave her the pic for free and a month later a cheque arrived in the post from SKY News for £100... so kind of her. Walked away with a cool grand for being in the right place at the right time. By the time we got home that day... SKY news was running my pic on repeat and it made all the major newspapers. I had my Dad in South Africa tell me that my pic was in a few of the papers back home too ... it was pretty funny. But you know...only The Telegraph actually credited me by name with the photo... all the others just referenced AP (Amateur photographer) haha...
So who is the other half of the charming rascals? Ms. Eli by any chance? or your partner in crim of the last challenge !LOLZ
Wow Wow Wow, I have met a few footballers, unfortunately pre smart phones.
I was in Glasgow and took my niece to her first Rangers football match.
My wife and her and I were staying in a hotel and a few of my friends were there for dinner. They were in the bar drinking and guess who but Gazza and jimmy Fivebellies were there. I was buzzing, there were drinking cocktails and smoking, it was his last game for Rangers, the press was all will he stay wont he. Anyway I asked if he would give my niece an autograph, it was her tenth brithday, he only went and wrote her a poem.
Ever since then I have not heard a bad word against hi,
Rooney picture though, that is something else, AP hehe good for The Telegraph for actually naming you, giving you credit and good for Sky letting you know the score!
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oh and for the last comment it is Ola;)
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