Proper Football

Mick shook hands with Steve Bull in his local Co-op the other day. That got me thinking about which famous footballers I have met. Well, I shook hands with Ron Atkinson, not Ron Atkinson the manager but Ron Atkinson the Captain of Oxford United, back in the mid sixties. Fast forward fifteen years or so  and I kicked Dalian Atkinson. Not Dalian the much travelled top class footballer but 13 year old Dalian the top class junior footballer. Truth be told, I didn't mean to kick him, I kicked at the ball but in the mean time he had taken it off me and was away. Perhaps I should have been yellow carded but it was only a training session  and the Ref was my mate who managed the team.