Sir Bobby
I should start by saying I cannot claim this story; I'm not the central character, I wasn't even there when it happened. It's a story I read in either a newspaper or online, and if anyone actually connected with this happens to come along, by all means write your own rather more first hand account and take full credit.

It's not even being rude, more a bit of Derren Brown style mind-fuckery. It is also, I think, a very charming anecdote featuring a great man.

  A young lad, let's call him Jimmy, has been waiting in line for two hours, to get his booked signed by his hero, Sir Bobby Robson. The queue slowly moves forward, and finally Jimmy is face to face with the footballing legend.
  He hands him the book, and as Sir Bobby signs it, makes some smalltalk.
"So how many books have you signed today Sir Bobby?"
"Oh hundreds lad, hundreds" came the reply.
He finished signing the book, and Jimmy went on his way.

  A couple of hours later, Sir Bobby looked up from where he was signing, and saw Jimmy stood in front of him for the second time.
"Have you just been round and queued up again for all that time?" asked the former England boss.
"Er yes, it's just, well you signed my book..."

This is how the inscription read:

To Jimmy
All the best
Bobby Hundreds
(bacontrout got ska, Sat 10 Oct 2009, 2:50, 2 replies)

hahaha!
that wouldn't surprise me in the least, one of the loveliest men the world has ever seen but daft as a brush!

I qoute

"Howard Wilkinson, chairman of the League Managers' Association:

"My best memories of Bobby are the funny ones, all the more funny because he remained blissfully unaware, nor offended that his faux pas became a source of such fun.

"At one England Under-21 gathering, I selected Shola Ameobi who was a young striker at Newcastle under him. Bobby had also bought at great expense Carl Cort, a striker from Wimbledon.

"Shola had about six Christian names, most of them, to me, unpronounceable and in an attempt to put him at his ease on his debut performance, I called the lad over and asked him what Bobby called him when he was at the club.

"With absolutely no sense of resentment, rather more with a sense of love and understanding, Shola said, 'Carl Cort, mostly'. "
(Halfy By light alone, Sat 10 Oct 2009, 8:33, closed)

RIP Bobby
I love this story, and it never fails to make me smile when I hear it again.
(nonstopdancer, Sat 10 Oct 2009, 19:58, closed)