Random sightings of our players outside of football
Today I was cashing up in the salon I work at in Loudwater.
A gentleman walked in 10 mins before we closed asking directions to a Carribean food van that apparently shows up as in the very near vicinity on Google maps..... (not the 1st time we have had people in asking about it)
Long story short.... Google has it wrong..... no Caribbean food outlets in Loudwater......
It wasn't until the guy left our shop that my feeling of seeing him somewhere before peaked and I realised it was our very own Tyreek Bakinson!
I was gutted it took me so long to twig!
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I bumped into Matty Ingram in one of the coffee shops in Eden. He was playing for QPR at the time. Nice bloke.
Hope you didn’t call him c***😀
Sido shopped for a suit in M&S, a weird place to chat - the changing rooms - but we did. A perfect gent.
Oh and I was stopped by Mo Harkin in Hampton Sainsbury’s. We had a long-ish chat about his time with the club. He still follows us, he knew quite a bit about how we were doing at the time, was very complimentary about Ainsworth and Dobbo etc.
One of our supporters bumped into Aaron Pierre’s fist down the ketchup aisle of Tesco Express once too.
I bumped into Dannie Bulman in the Costa cafe that's in the big Next store up in Cressex. He was playing for Crawley at the time and there was another Crawley player with him.
This was towards the very end of the 2017-18 season when we were fighting for promotion with Exeter. I knew that Crawley were playing Exeter next, so I told him to beat Exeter for us. He said that he'd try his best. Fortunately, Crawley scraped a 2-2 draw down in Devon which stopped Exeter going above us with two games to play. That was the day we lost 4-0 at home to Accrington, but that Crawley result meant that everyone still went home happy.
Thank you Dannie!
I shared a lift at the bullring in Birmingham with Tommy Mooney but didn't say anything, he was busy shopping
It was his head. BWK!
Hahaha no.... I didn't 🤣
That is such an underrated result. Exeter were 2-1 up, Crawley equalized in 69th minute, Exeter hit the underside of the bar in the 79th minute, and Crawley made an amazing stop in the 89th minute.
If not for the above, Chesterfield mathematically could not have happened, and we would have been relying on Exeter to slip up to go up on the last day.
The thought of Danny Bulman giving a little pep talk before the game of "We might feel like we have nothing to play for, but I bumped into a Wycombe fan in Costa and was reminded we owe our best, not just to ourselves, but to everyone..." is rather nice!
I bumped into Daryl Horgan at High Heavens. It looked like he was having a spring clean as he was chucking out a load of old furniture and cardboard and stuff.
He was transferred the next day!
Dannie still lives local to me and is often seen in Sunbury Tesco. My favourite ever Wycombe player too.
I’ve seen away team staff up there a couple of times too before games
I think he was living possibly out my way... I saw him numerous times in my local co op petrol station shop in Chinnor during his time with us
Yep, but Crawley weren't playing us around that time. I have no idea why he was in Wycombe that afternoon
Ah I see yes that is odd!
Paris Cowan-Hall Princes Risborough M&S Food. He was coming out with a protective boot on his foot, having gone off injured that afternoon. I wished him well.
Sam Wood MK Railway station. No words exchanged.
Didn't see Sam Wood, but was impressed when the barber i went to said he's often in.
Or was, back then.
I used to get my hair cut by a barber who cut Pierre’s hair.
”Pierre!
I know who cuts your hair
I’ve never seen you there
Pierre!”
I did see Jombati emerging from a flat behind Kingsmead Park one time.
I was running so at first I thought I was hallucinating. But on greeting him and getting a response realised I wasn't.
Keith Ryan in Flackwell from time to time can't count quite as random though.
Unsurprisingly I saw into Bayo in the gym. We had a picture, he wished me a good workout and apologised for being so sweaty in the picture.
Also husband and I used to see Scotty Kashket all the time when we were living locally, including in Wagamamas. He started to recognise my husband, it happened so often.
Husband also met Adam El Abd in a barbers.
I now live in the same village as a few of the Oxford United squad, so have some good stories about them, but it's not the same!
EDIT: I also forgot to mention, it's pretty tenuous but I used to work in same company as Gmacs mum, and husband used to work with his best friend.
Keith Ryan - Browns Beaconsfield.
Saw Adam El Abd in the reception area of the Chiltern Hospital once when he was playing for us, didn't speak to him, pointed him out to the missus who he was and got the bored response "that's nice dear."
Ryan Tafazolli - lives in an apartment in Beaconsfield, in the same block as some old friends of ours. (Probably gone to Hong Kong by now).
Seen him parking his car a couple of times, said hello and good luck.
I remember seeing Jason Cousins with his mates at the open air swimming pool on the Rye When I was with my girlfriend (now wife).
Strangely her attention was more focussed on him than it was on me all afternoon.
Did you give him your card in case he gets done for parking in HK!
"and we would have been relying on Exeter to slip up to go up on the last day."
That's not true. It was always in our hands. We went into that Chesterfield game in 3rd place a point ahead of Exeter and 2 points ahead of Notts County. Even if we'd all won that day it would still have been in our hands the following week at home to Stevenage.
ah. I see what I've done there. The Crawley result was not the same day as the Chesterfield game. As you were
(should know not to question Shev)
Keith Ryan is based in Flackwell as his daughter used to go to Wye Valley School (or whatever it's called now)
I saw Nathan Tyson waiting for a taxi in Reading once. And a few of our younger players having quite a jolly time once summer's night in Wycombe about twenty years ago.