Absolutely terrible claims to fame/celebrity spots

[David Williams]

I slide tackled Paul Reaney once. I thought this was a terrible claim to fame but he's a bit more famous than I realised, as he's come up in some recent articles as the first non-white bloke to play football for England.

I certainly think of Paul Reaney as famous, and I didn't know that. Over 700 games for Leeds, in the initial squad of 40 for the 1966 World Cup and would definitely have been in the squad for Mexico in 1970 if he hadn't been injured. Slide-tackling a member of that Leeds team and living to tell the tale is a claim to fame in itself.

[Fred Mumford]

He was the one defender who had the measure of George Best.

[Paul Worsley]

I slide tackled Paul Reaney once. I thought this was a terrible claim to fame but he's a bit more famous than I realised, as he's come up in some recent articles as the first non-white bloke to play football for England.

I certainly think of Paul Reaney as famous, and I didn't know that. Over 700 games for Leeds, in the initial squad of 40 for the 1966 World Cup and would definitely have been in the squad for Mexico in 1970 if he hadn't been injured. Slide-tackling a member of that Leeds team and living to tell the tale is a claim to fame in itself.

I got fouled by Norman "Bites Yer Legs" Hunter....He subsequently ruined the experience by apologising.

[Tom S]

I once won a Twitter competition organised by the Vegetarian Society and Quorn to win 10 Quorn vouchers.

Also used to be followed by the Bulgarian Eurovision delegation on Twitter.

[Mark Deeks]

I went to a two-morning Paul Reaney football coaching clinic at a Haven Holidays park when I was about 7. I remember doing lots of heading for no particular reason, then coming away with two photos - one, a signed a4 photo of him full of his career stats, and the other, a photo he took with every child there, in which we kneeled sideways-on turning to face the camera, while he kneeled behind us, hands on our shoulders. In hindsight, bit odd.

[Adam Gillard]

I went to a two-morning Paul Reaney football coaching clinic at a Haven Holidays park when I was about 7. I remember doing lots of heading for no particular reason, then coming away with two photos - one, a signed a4 photo of him full of his career stats, and the other, a photo he took with every child there, in which we kneeled sideways-on turning to face the camera, while he kneeled behind us, hands on our shoulders. In hindsight, bit odd.

My meeting with Paul Reaney was similar except I think he just came as a special guest for the last day of a two-week football training thing at Butlins and I don't think there were any photos.

[Mark Deeks]

England and Newcastle United goalkeeper Nick Pope's mum's best friend just gave my dog a bowl of water, then coughed on her.

[Mark Deeks]

The world's joint-largest container ship is named after my aunt.

[Marc Meakin]

The world's joint-largest container ship is named after my aunt.

What deliberately or coincidently?

[Gavin Chipper]

I've probably mentioned this elsewhere on the forum but William Tunstall-Pedoe once did my parkrun.

[Matt Rutherford]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rawson

That man is my grandfather. This being 'absolutely terrible' because that's the kind of person he was (he did at least have the courtesy to die before I was born)

If I ever come into possession of the medals, and you want 'em cheap, let me know before I have chance to burn them

[Mark Deeks]

The world's joint-largest container ship is named after my aunt.

What deliberately or coincidently?

Deliberately!

[Marc Meakin]

The world's joint-largest container ship is named after my aunt.

What deliberately or coincidently?

Deliberately!

Irina, Loreto or Michel Capatina?

[Gavin Chipper]

I'm on my way to MK, and when I was on the underground between Liverpool Street and Euston Square, guess who sat opposite me?

It was Stella Creasy, her husband and two children!

[Mark Deeks]

When a law student, I went along to a networking event, where the idea was to try and seduce them coveted mini-pupillages from the barristers and high-falutin' folk in attendance. In reality, I spent my entire time talking to this guy. (I had completely forgotten about this until YouTube's autoplay just threw the video at me, which hints at how memorable of a conversation we had.)