Some great WHU trivia on my West Ham Whats App group after Nigel revealed that his mate Reg lives in the road where Matthew Upson was born. I was able to reveal that my mum once went to a furniture auction in Brentwood with Billy Jennings' wife, Fraser told us he once met Jimmy Neighbour's daughter at Ilford station and Nigel revealed that an old friend taught Alvin Martin's (Spurs-supporting) son (not David). This caused a further flurry of Proustian remembrance: Gavin revealed that the mum of a bloke at the Times used to teach Tony Cottee. While Stewart Robson once told Nigel to eff off. Matt's mate Peggsy had a girlfriend who used to live next door to Jimmy Greavees' son Danny. And Gavin's mum got him Bobby Ferguson's autograph at the park in Upminster, while his grandad once had his car pushed by Jimmy Greaves himself. Impressive niche trivia all round.
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I went to nursery school with Bobby Moore's son Dean! -- it didn't mean much to me, at the age of 3, but my mum says she spent quite a bit of time hanging around the car park hoping that Bobby would come and pick him up that day.
Good claim to fame!
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