29-12-2015 11:26 AM
With Stanley playing away at Northampton yesterday we, Briteny and myself, headed off to Fleetwood Town's game against Wigan Athletic. We had written to Briteny's favourite player Bobby Grant back in November to thank him for spending time with us when we last went over to the Coventry game and that we would return over Christmas as his guests. Briteny also included a few photo's for him to sign in the letter..that was early November. We wrote again to the club asking for confirmation that Bobby had received the letter.....we also sent several E-mails and phoned the club just to make sure he knew we would be at yesterdays game. Needles to say that when we got to the ground and called into the players lounge to speak with Bobby he had no idea we were turning up.....................True to the gent he is after a team brief that finished at 1.50 pm he provided a couple of tickets for us to watch the game then informed us that he had just been given the 2 letters and a couple of printed out E-mail that we had sent weeks ago. We did mabage to spent 10 minutes with him after the game and Briteny had taken a Christmas present for him.....Hunbled to say the least he said...He sat on the Bench for 84 minutes yesterday..Still Fleetwoods top scorer and leads with Goal assists............He found it hard to believe he started on the bench again...............Anyway he has already invited Briteny and myself down fro the last game of the season and is oping to get to one of Stanleys re-arranged games one Tuesday night and said he would write to Briteny to confirm which one he would attend..Crushing defeat again for Fleetwood after pulling the score back to 1-1 and having a golden opertunity to make it 2-1 before going down 3-1.
Bobby signed a pic in the programme and we managed to get Wigan Manager Gary Calwell to sign it too. Brian he's another for your collection over 100 games for Celtic and 55 for Scotland, He was captain of Wigan when the beat City in the FA Cup final a couple of seasons ago.
I had to take a picture of the frames shirt in the Players lounge, Multi signed shirt from their Wembley play off final win back in 2014...Looks awesome.
29-12-2015 1:26 PM
some nice graphys Alex, glad you had a good day
29-12-2015 2:14 PM
29-12-2015 3:24 PM
I love reading these posts, Alex. You and Briteny have found a good friend in Bobby Grant.
29-12-2015 4:19 PM
Despite the muxup it sounds like a cracking day out for you both with your good friend. Great graffs as well.
29-12-2015 6:48 PM
Glad it still managed to work out for you in the end Alex and a nice couple of sigs there too
30-12-2015 4:32 PM
Sounds like you had another great day out Alex. Couple of nice graphs for your collection. Well done.
30-12-2015 10:40 PM
Another great day out for you and Briteny . I got my Celtic cads and my Scotland cards signed by Garry a while ago . I think I'll send him my shirt in the new year , thanks for the heads up Alex .