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Post by jonesg on Feb 4, 2011 5:48:35 GMT -1
menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/sport/football/manchester_city/s/1407157_former_manchester_city_ace_neil_young_diesFormer star player for city, died a few days ago. I knew him when I was a kid, he dated my sister when he was 16. I was never a football fan or went to games, never saw him play. I just liked him because he was funny and kind. But I knew him, he was polite a shy fallowfield kid who never forgot where he came from, unlike the primadonnas today he didn't see himself as a star but he was. later on I saw him training with the team in Platt Fields, he came over and said hello, he didn't owe me nothing, I was just a kid he knew causally I guess, but it was his manners. You couldn't forget him.
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Post by jnealedroylsden on Feb 4, 2011 9:37:57 GMT -1
menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/sport/football/manchester_city/s/1407157_former_manchester_city_ace_neil_young_diesFormer star player for city, died a few days ago. I knew him when I was a kid, he dated my sister when he was 16. I was never a football fan or went to games, never saw him play. I just liked him because he was funny and kind. But I knew him, he was polite a shy fallowfield kid who never forgot where he came from, unlike the primadonnas today he didn't see himself as a star but he was. later on I saw him training with the team in Platt Fields, he came over and said hello, he didn't owe me nothing, I was just a kid he knew causally I guess, but it was his manners. You couldn't forget him. it's good when footballers remember their roots, not like some of them now they think they are Gods gift and can get away with anything..........too much money for them and some of them NOT ALL have no respect for anybody or anything |
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Post by cabbyjohn on Feb 4, 2011 10:26:37 GMT -1
menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/sport/football/manchester_city/s/1407157_former_manchester_city_ace_neil_young_diesFormer star player for city, died a few days ago. I knew him when I was a kid, he dated my sister when he was 16. I was never a football fan or went to games, never saw him play. I just liked him because he was funny and kind. But I knew him, he was polite a shy fallowfield kid who never forgot where he came from, unlike the primadonnas today he didn't see himself as a star but he was. later on I saw him training with the team in Platt Fields, he came over and said hello, he didn't owe me nothing, I was just a kid he knew causally I guess, but it was his manners. You couldn't forget him. it's good when footballers remember their roots, not like some of them now they think they are Gods gift and can get away with anything..........too much money for them and some of them NOT ALL have no respect for anybody or anything When I drove a cab I picked up lots of "Celebs". I picked up David Beckham 3 times and Eric Cantona 3 times. Even though I am a Man City fan, I found them both to be nice guys. particularly David Beckham, he is a really nice polite young man. I once picked a woman up going to Wilmslow. She looked like any other woman you would see in the street, she went to a big new house in Wilmslow. When we got there I remarked on the house and asked if she was the housekeeper? She replied that she wasn't, it was her house. Just then her husband came to the door and she told him that I thought that she was the housekeeper. He laughed and shook my hand. Her husband was Sir Alex Ferguson!  |
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Post by Lisa on Feb 4, 2011 11:10:07 GMT -1
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Post by cabbyjohn on Feb 4, 2011 11:16:07 GMT -1
Thank you Lisa, I am blushing now. |
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Post by lin on Feb 4, 2011 12:28:56 GMT -1
Brilliant story John, loved it..was reading it out to hubby and it gave him a good laugh as well.  |
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Post by jonesg on Feb 10, 2011 5:00:51 GMT -1
Thank you Lisa, I am blushing now. Taxi drivers, like hotel waiters, get to meet them all. My mum was a c*cktail waitress at the free trade hall, there is , or was, a private backstage bar/lounge for the stars. She met them all but the one that stood out was Ella FitzGerald. Very kind woman with no airs, ma says. And the guy who wrote King of the road, Roger Miller?, she told him she loved the song but could remember the words so he wrote the lyrics on a napkin for her. Which, of course she lost.! Mum seems to be a magnet for people who became famous, she used to babysit for the nash family in Salford , they all worked at the John Brown factory, the Nash's kid she babysat became part of Crosby Stills Nash and Young. We moved to Rusholme and she babysat a kid who later became the GM of M/C city football club. |
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Post by jonesg on Feb 10, 2011 5:03:04 GMT -1
hahaha so I guess pilots can't drink c*cktails in the c*ckpit . ;D
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Post by cabbyjohn on Feb 10, 2011 6:32:40 GMT -1
hahaha so I guess pilots can't drink c*cktails in the c*ckpit . ;D Of course they can't. No more than you can have c*ckies guarding our parks anymore, or be the c*ck of the school if you were the best fighter in the school. Don't even think about riding a c*ck horse to Banbury cross! ;D ;D |
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Post by Lisa on Feb 10, 2011 13:13:09 GMT -1
Hi Jonesg, We have a thread somewhere in either the Message Board or the General section about famous people we have met. It would be nice to see some of the people your mom met on there, if you can find it. Thanks.  |
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Post by peter byrne on Sept 11, 2012 10:32:01 GMT -1
i also knew neil young and i agree with the comments,we used to play football on the school fields on platt lane/ hart road corner,neil would come over and have a game with us when he played for city,his big brother chris would also join in,chris was as good as neil but would not play pro football.great lads,
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