footballers
A certain place I used to work was open late at nights and sometimes footballers would visit for the evening, tending as they do to have more money than sense.

One visit sticks in my mind. A certain footballer, immortalised for getting a wee bit upset in a certain international competition, and supposedly "on the wagon" showed up. Shitfaced. And he stayed until he was broke. Then he tried to borrow money from the other customers. Eventually he stumbled off into the night. He offered to shake my hand, but I declined politely.

Didn't know it at the time, but talking to the other staff members, he'd apparently been ejected a couple of years previously for cracking one off under the table. Lucky escape!

Also met (another time) Nolberto Solano, who is a top bloke, and his wife is as fit as fuck.
(puerile is really getting into seagulls lately., Thu 25 May 2006, 16:13, Reply)