The Experiment - Do Footballers Reply To Fans Anymore?

MrStuffins

Redzer7

1) Liverpool: Sotirios Kyrgiakos
2) Man City: Pablo Zabaleta
3) Man Utd: Tomasz Kuszczak
4) Pompey: Marc Wilson
5) Stoke: Mamady Sidibe


joe316

1) Sunderland: Kieran Richardson
2) Spurs: Robbie Keane
3) West Ham: Jonathan Spector
4) Wigan: Richard Kingson
5) Wolves: John Dunleavy

paddy978

1) Arsenal: Denílson
2) Villa: Emile Heskey
3) Brum: Chucho Benitez
4) Blackburn: Frank Fielding
5) Bolton:Ricardo Vaz Té

liamygunner29

any chance I could hope on the bandwagon?!

A few years ago me and my brother wrote to Viera and Petit and got responses I think Arsenal have someone employed for it cause in the Guardian and here it was the same kind of response.

hblock21

I'll definitely take part in this experiment. Please!

Few questions...where do I get address for the players?

And....are people including a stamped addressed envelope?

This is cool!!

yabadabado

DaPoolRulz wrote: »

Fo anyone that's wondering, www.fanmail.biz has the addresses of all the clubs, and you can just add the player's name at the top.

thats were i got the addresses i needed.
i didnt send S.A.E.

dannydiamond

Mr Stuffins give me a list and I will grovel with the best of them!

pokerface_me

Mr Stuffins i'll throw my hat in the ring too, if thats ok.

Holsten

Just saw the post with Steve Simonsens, what a legend!

blue-army

blue-army wrote: »

Here ya go!

EDIT - Got more from Schalke again today.

Don't know why they sent more to be honest, Got one from Halil Altintop, and the same again from Jefferson Farfan, Gerald Asamoah and Kevin Kuranyi.
It seems Schalke are the club to email if you want autographs! (I only emailed them 2weeks ago max.)

curry-muff

Only after getting round to writing my letters tonight, probably best saying Kranjčar moved to spurs yesterday :pac: Ive wrote letters to all 5 of my players and 2 additional ones to Roy Keane and Phil Neville as ex united players ive admired. Ill mail them off tomorow and hopefully recieve a reply or two

nkay1985

I've two of my five letters written. Going to write the remainder next week and send them off. Will be interesting to see if anything comes of it.

MrStuffins

liamygunner29

1) Burley: Nik Kudiersky
2) Chelsea: Michael Essien
3) Everton: James Wallace
4) Fulham: Damien Duff
5) Hull City: Kevin Kilbane

hblock21

1) Liverpool: Jay Spearing
2) Man City: Roque Santa Cruz
3) Man Utd: Ritchie De Laet
4) Pompey: Jamie Ashdown
5) Stoke: Abdoulaye Faye

dannydiamond

1) Sunderland: Nyron Nosworthy
2) Spurs: Niko Kranjčar
3) West Ham: Hérita Ilunga
4) Wigan: Hugo Rodallega
5) Wolves: Kyle Bennett

pokerface_me

1) Arsenal: Theo Walcott
2) Villa: Moustapha Salifou
3) Brum: Giovanny Espinoza
4) Blackburn: Pascal Chimbonda
5) Bolton:Ali Al Habsi

3hn2givr7mx1sc

I've my five written and sent off a few days.
Any chance of another five or am I being greedy?:P

liamygunner29

duffer and kilbane!! be interesting see how our own respond!! Essien I would imagine not a hope! That Wallace lad has represented Ireland as well. 3 Irish this is what a get for starting a club or country thread!!

curry-muff

Ive got kranjcar already

MrStuffins

curry-muff wrote: »

Ive got kranjcar already

Yeah, i was thinkin about pullong him back (Spurs one) but i guess there'd be no harm in comparing the 2! If they're identical, i guess it's himself or his agent, if they're different then maybe it'ss the clubs.

If it's just Spurs then it's sour grapes

MrStuffins

Seth Delicious Race wrote: »

I've my five written and sent off a few days.
Any chance of another five or am I being greedy?:P

Seth Delicious Race

1) Burley: Chris Eagles
2) Chelsea: Branislav Ivanović
3) Everton: Tony Hibbert
4) Fulham: Andranik
5) Hull City: Nicky Featherstone

8-10

Right, gwan I'm in! Gimme 5!

MrStuffins

8-10 wrote: »

Right, gwan I'm in! Gimme 5!

8-10

1) Liverpool: Nathan Eccleston
2) Man City: Stephen Ireland
3) Man Utd: Craig Cathcart
4) Pompey: Nwankwo Kanu
5) Stoke: Liam Lawrence (Liam Richardson)

Daemos

MrStuffins wrote: »

8-10

1) Liverpool: Nathan Eccleston
2) Man City: Stephen Ireland
3) Man Utd: Craig Cathcart
4) Pompey: Nwankwo Kanu
5) Stoke: Liam Lawrence (Liam Richardson)

Lol, good one

8-10

Good man, didn't expect to get an ex-Ajax player (I support Ajax). That'll be an enjoyable one.

Racing Flat

As Simonsen was so sound to send the gloves, am I alone in thinking that as thet were gotten by false pretences, should they maybe be sent back so that they could be given to a real Simonsen/Stoke fan. Could explain the experiment to him and tell him that he was the winner...

Helix

Racing Flat wrote: »

As Simonsen was so sound to send the gloves, am I alone in thinking that as thet were gotten by false pretences, should they maybe be sent back so that they could be given to a real Simonsen/Stoke fan. Could explain the experiment to him and tell him that he was the winner...

you raise a fair point there i think

marko91

MrStuffins wrote: »

8-10

1) Liverpool: Nathan Eccleston
2) Man City: Stephen Ireland
3) Man Utd: Craig Cathcart
4) Pompey: Nwankwo Kanu
5) Stoke: Liam Lawrence (Liam Richardson)

just incase chris kamara is on boards:pac:

8-10

Helix wrote: »

you raise a fair point there i think

I think we're now the biggest Simonsen fans.

Jesus Wept

I must write to Phil Babb and Dante Washington.

Blisterman

Blisterman wrote: »

Done.
Using the random number generator, I picked 4 players at random out of the 22 players from the first Lions test They were:

14: Tommy Bowe
2: Lee Mears
9: Mike Philips
3: Phil Vickery
8: Jamie Heaslip

So I handwrote them all a letter with more or less the exact wording to DaPoolRulz's letter. Sent them to the club address on each of their websites.
Let's see who replies.

Received my first reply today from England and Bath player Lee Mears, who sent a personally autographed photo. I'll scan it in if anyone's interested.
Since the season's just started, I suppose there's a good chance the players are only receiving the letters now, so hopefully I'll hear back from the others. I'd especially like to get a response from one of the Irish players.

The Rooster

Racing Flat wrote: »

As Simonsen was so sound to send the gloves, am I alone in thinking that as thet were gotten by false pretences, should they maybe be sent back so that they could be given to a real Simonsen/Stoke fan. Could explain the experiment to him and tell him that he was the winner...

Actually I think it'd be far better to say nothing.

Nothing wrong with letting him think he has a fan out there - and in fairness he certainly has quite a few now.

Personally I'd be more upset to find out I'd wasted my time with an experiment.

Helix

8-10 wrote: »

I think we're now the biggest Simonsen fans.

haha yeah thats also very true actually

we should set up a steve simonsen appreciation society

ullu

The Rooster wrote: »

Actually I think it'd be far better to say nothing.

Nothing wrong with letting him think he has a fan out there - and in fairness he certainly has quite a few now.

Personally I'd be more upset to find out I'd wasted my time with an experiment.

This is exactly right.

Racing Flat

The Rooster wrote: »

Personally I'd be more upset to find out I'd wasted my time with an experiment.

Maybe a good idea to stop the experiment and not send any more letters then. As it's whoever has sent the letter (under false pretences) has caused the player to waste his time.

Not very nice IMO, something distasteful about this whole thing. Deception and all that...

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Racing Flat wrote: »

Maybe a good idea to stop the experiment and not send any more letters then. As it's whoever has sent the letter (under false pretences) has caused the player to waste his time.

Not very nice IMO, something distasteful about this whole thing. Deception and all that...

Ah it's fun though.:P

RacoonQueen

I might write to Alan Smith and deceive him greatly. Then send him a pic of me burning whatever he sends me.

BaZmO*

Racing Flat wrote: »

Maybe a good idea to stop the experiment and not send any more letters then. As it's whoever has sent the letter (under false pretences) has caused the player to waste his time.

Not very nice IMO, something distasteful about this whole thing. Deception and all that...

Wastes his time? All 2 minutes of it?

It's not as if it did any harm.

Chardee MacDennis

RacoonQueen wrote: »

I might write to Alan Smith and deceive him greatly. Then send him a pic of me burning whatever he sends me.

sigh a player takes time to repsond to a 'fan' and this is what happens. no wonder some players dont do anything for fans anymore...

MrStuffins

Racing Flat wrote: »

Maybe a good idea to stop the experiment and not send any more letters then. As it's whoever has sent the letter (under false pretences) has caused the player to waste his time.

Not very nice IMO, something distasteful about this whole thing. Deception and all that...

:rolleyes:

RacoonQueen wrote: »

I might write to Alan Smith and deceive him greatly. Then send him a pic of me burning whatever he sends me.

:rolleyes::rolleyes:

ANTIFA!

I've got two replies from footballers in my youth, Kevin Hunt and Shay Given.

currythis

Got reply's this morning from Urby Emanuelson and Luis Suarez of Ajax and Tony Mowbray the Celtic Manager,I only e-mailed them last Monday so fair play to both Ajax and Celtic

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craiginireland

How did you know where to email?

currythis wrote: »

Got reply's this morning from Urby Emanuelson and Luis Suarez of Ajax and Tony Mowbray the Celtic Manager,I only e-mailed them last Monday so fair play to both Ajax and Celtic

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Mr Alan

good to see Simonsen come on today for Stoke

Kirby

Xavi6 wrote: »

Anyone else hope Thomas Sorensen gets injured soon? :pac:

Didn't take long, did it? :P

Our man mostly did well when he came on.

HorseRadish

Is it too late to throw my name into the hat guys?

norrie rugger

How is this going? who was the best reply (bar the gloves, total ledge)

ADTR

blue-army wrote: »

I was too late for this, but I decided to email a few european clubs and a few random english clubs.

I just got the email addresses from that link to the Fanmail.biz site that someone left below. Wasn't bothered writing a letter, so just fired out the same email to each...


Anyway,
after only 5 days I got a reply from Ajax. Got an signed pics from Dennis Bergkamp, Oleguer,Anita and Dario Cvitanich. All definately hand signed, and not printed.


Also got some from Schalke - from Farfan, Asamoah, Kuranyi and Neuer.

Best one though was a personalized signed pic by Rafa Nadal. Think I just left the msg on his website.

So, what did you do? Just send off a generic email with your address to a few clubs email addresses and they sent you back all that stuff? Did you ask for any specific players?

blue-army

ADTR wrote: »

So, what did you do? Just send off a generic email with your address to a few clubs email addresses and they sent you back all that stuff? Did you ask for any specific players?

yeah, just made a generic letter, and changed the club names in each. (for Ajax I asked specifically for Bergkamps though - they sent it, and more.)
Got a signed pic from Franz Beckenbauer too recently. I just used the email left on the fanmail.biz site.

ADTR

blue-army wrote: »

yeah, just made a generic letter, and changed the club names in each. (for Ajax I asked specifically for Bergkamps though - they sent it, and more.)
Got a signed pic from Franz Beckenbauer too recently. I just used the email left on the fanmail.biz site.

Alright. Thanks! I'll give it a go so.

ADTR

Got an email reply from Wolves:

Thank you for your e mail. As we get hundreds of requests each week for free items I am afraid we are not able to send you anything. Please see our website for items available by mail order and information about the Club. WWW.Wolves.co.uk . Best wishes

ADTR

blue-army wrote: »

yeah, just made a generic letter, and changed the club names in each. (for Ajax I asked specifically for Bergkamps though - they sent it, and more.)
Got a signed pic from Franz Beckenbauer too recently. I just used the email left on the fanmail.biz site.

You had more luck than me with Ajax. I emailed them and they sent me a postcard signed by Jereon Verhoeven. Included a piece of paper that said they can only send one free postcard and then a price list for more. Better than nothing and a quick reply!

Johner

HorseRadish wrote: »

Is it too late to throw my name into the hat guys?

This.

Daemos

I just got another reply from my batch of 5 PL players.

An autographed picture of Gael Givet (Blackburn)

blue-army

ADTR wrote: »

You had more luck than me with Ajax. I emailed them and they sent me a postcard signed by Jereon Verhoeven. Included a piece of paper that said they can only send one free postcard and then a price list for more. Better than nothing and a quick reply!

just send another email. I got that price list thing too... but they still sent more.