Which living X Everton player would you like to meet

[anjelikaferrett]

Bob Latchford. No competition. Will always be my favourite player.

 

[Taifi gorm]

Maupay. In a removal van.

 

[Cels]

George Wood

 

[larbert toffee]

Joe Royle

 

[terryefc]

I've met Joe Royle. As you'd expect - an absolute gentleman. Everton through and through.

 

[Marc bolan]

I met a good few in the past through youth football when the odd player would come down. Gazza one of the highlights. Met him at the training ground where he was coming out to just signs few things. After a chat he told us to hang on, went back inside and came out with ALL of his various bit of training gear and a few nicked balls so we could raffle it all off for the club.

By chance watched a boxing match at a bar somewhere in Southport with Ratcliffe and a couple of others once. They weren’t “celebs” back then, just blokes wanting to be left alone, until they’d had a few.

But now would be Nev all day, to talk about everything other than Everton. His drive in helping others and total disinterest in clinging onto the fringes of football fascinates me. Love him.

Yes I love is comments on all things Everton from the head not Always from the heart
If you ever get to llandudno there is a pub in the town all everton themed called the nevill
Don't think Nev goes there ?? Tea total I think

Not so much on the meeting topic, but I was wondering, who is our oldest living ex player?

I read somewhere that Mike Megan was the oldest living player

 

[Bluebonic]

I would love to have a natter with Johnny Morrissey, just to see what he thinks of all the diving prima donnas we have infesting the game. If not him, Gary Speed just to ask why he didnt seek help?

 

[sam domingo]

Big Bob...but I'd ignore what he said and weep uncontrollable.
2nd choice big nev
3rd george wood

Was lucky enough to have a chat with Big Bob after a book signing, I was pretty much the last person there and we ended up having a chat for a few minutes, as well as getting the book, I had a DVD with me "Everton - the Big Match replayed" which had Bob on the cover so I got him to sign that too (he told me that he had a copy of it as well!). Obviously I just spoke about some of the games I remembered as a kid watching him play and my memories of watching him from the old Park End upper stand with my dad, stuff he's probably been asked about loads of times, but he really did come across as a genuinely decent bloke. I remember Andy King (in his second spell at Everton) presenting the cup and medals at an amateur game on the playing fields near where I grew up, he sat down on the grass with a load of us young lads around him in a circle, signed autographs and answered all our questions, often taking the mickey out of his team mates when we were asking what they were all like, he was great! George Wood would be an interesting one, I've always been fascinated by the players from the teams that I first watched as a kid (76-77/77-78), I reckon from that era Mick Pejic (now the over 70's british taekwondo champion as well as a European gold medallist in the past!), would be a fascinating character.

 

[Eggs]

….probably John Hurst. A magnificent player who won an FA Youth Cup in 1965 playing CF and a League title in 1970 playing CB. Just like Mountfield did, Hurst contributed valuable goals in that title bid.

Vastly underrated, he’d have 50 England caps in this day and age. Many of todays players driving their Bentley’s couldn’t lace his boots, yet he gets around with his bus pass. Respect for a class act.

 

[Tipp blue]

Never meet your heroes, you'll be disappointed...

Never a truer word said, well Peter Reid aside who me and my mate met in a bar and talked pretty much about anything apart from Everton. But I've found most footballers are crashing bores, and would be more suited to the type of people who can be found propping up a golf club bar, chatting wham about golf and the equity in their mortgage.
They all probably watch Clarkson as well and regale you with damn awful car stats and the best way to get to that London on a Monday morning.
And holiday stories, nobody likes anybody's bloody awful holiday stories either.

I met my childhood hero.. Pakie Bonner Ireland goalkeeper in the 1990 world cup, an 8 year old me watching him save the 10th penalty in the shoot out to get us to the last 8.. I met him in a hotel beside Dublin airport when I was going over to an Everton game.. it was great meeting him he was pure sound. Back on topic I'd love to meet Sheedy.

 

[CrustySack]

Bob Latchford. No competition. Will always be my favourite player.

I've told this story before. Everton had just played Man.City and me and my auntie were outside the players entrance after the game to get my match program signed as the players left. I was about 7 or 8 at the time and looked like butter wouldn't melt.

Anyway, Bob Latchford comes out wearing a big sheepskin coat and is surrounded by fans.

Next thing he walks over to me and the first thing I said to him was 'my mum fancies you'. Bob laughs and my auntie tells him she's not my mum.
Bob says to me 'and where is your mum?"
I replied 'she's at home, do you want me to go and get her?'
Needless to say Bob was laughing his head off.

 

[miami]

Sharpy, just to ask him how the panda he adopted is getting on.

 

[anjelikaferrett]

I've told this story before. Everton had just played Man.City and me and my auntie were outside the players entrance after the game to get my match program signed as the players left. I was about 7 or 8 at the time and looked like butter wouldn't melt.

Anyway, Bob Latchford comes out wearing a big sheepskin coat and is surrounded by fans.

Next thing he walks over to me and the first thing I said to him was 'my mum fancies you'. Bob laughs and my auntie tells him she's not my mum.
Bob says to me 'and where is your mum?"
I replied 'she's at home, do you want me to go and get her?'
Needless to say Bob was laughing his head off.

 

[Joey66]

Joe Royle

Met Big Nev - Alan Whittle, both lost their Autographs - but it has to be Big Joe my schoolboy hero - I argued he was going to come good - but he replaced the GV a hard act to follow - the stick he got on the terraces starting off was disgusting .....

 

[jazzy]

Never meet your heroes, you'll be disappointed...

Never a truer word said, well Peter Reid aside who me and my mate met in a bar and talked pretty much about anything apart from Everton. But I've found most footballers are crashing bores, and would be more suited to the type of people who can be found propping up a golf club bar, chatting wham about golf and the equity in their mortgage.
They all probably watch Clarkson as well and regale you with damn awful car stats and the best way to get to that London on a Monday morning.
And holiday stories, nobody likes anybody's bloody awful holiday stories either.

I'm not sure that's fair.
Been lucky enough to meet Bally and Howard ( both pissed , I wasn't) and spend a drunken evening with Sharpie ( yeah I know but at the time he was sound) and Joe Royle who definitely wasn't. They were all very pleasant although my absolute hero Bally was a bit of hard work ( I had to get him back to his hotel after he did some after dinner speaking for my firm ). I very briefly met Reidy, Graveson and Cahill but didn't spend much time in their company.

I agree with an earlier poster that of the current generation it would be Coleman that I'd like to sit down and have a pint with.