hammersgirl

I've met him before at West Ham, a nice guy. Any chance of other Hammers ex-players? Billy Bonds? Frank Lampard?

He signed my Star wars photo last week!

With the announcements of lots of sports guests please please please can we have a Team of '66 reunion, the last one being the Collectormania in at Ricoh Arena, Coventry last November. It was such a joy to meet them and would love to see them all again.

You can also get a daily travel card, i think they're £5.60 per day, all depends on which zones you want, but one price and travel on bus, underground & rail unlimited within the zones.

Our favourite guest was Sir Geoff Hurst, sometimes he can be a bit of a 'prickly' character, but we found him very charming, engaging and happy to have a natter about all things West Ham and made up for the lack of other football stars around!

I went along on Sunday with my husband, we got there at about midday but I didn't find it cold at all, i'm to be honest quite perplexed about the comments saying it was freezing!?! Anyhow, we should have got there much earlier as it was too crowded for my liking to have a good browse around, especially the dealer room, the sheer volume in there made it impossible to stop and stand and look around. Being in a football stadium my husband was really disappointed at the lack of sports stars especially the football players. In comparison to the event at the Ricoh stadium last November this was a very poor turn out. However, he was thrilled to meet Sir Geoff again and had a nice ten minute chat with him, unfortunately Martin Peter's wife had a fall that morning so he opted understandably to stay at home with her. Gordon banks unforunately spelt his name wrong on a photo and he particulary wanted to meet Sir Henry Cooper, and as we were ready to leave once obtaining his autograph we then had to wait an hour and a half to Mr Cooper to return, but with very few other football/sports guests to meet we and many others were very bored just hanging around waiting for him to return. If i'm honest we don't go to these events for the Sci-fi guests and most of them we hadn't even heard of, but judging by the amount of people dressed up it seems a lot of people had a great time.

My main concern - with the stories circulating - not for me but for the guests in their 60's, 70's and 80's sitting for hours exposed to the elements, i hope they are made comfortable and kept warm!

My Sat Nav showed MK1 1QA which is Saxon Street leading to the stadium.

According to the A1 Sporting Speakers website who arer the agents for the sports guests they will be there from 10.30am - 3.30 pm.

What about the rest of the team of '66? George Cohen, Jack Charlton etc

Conversely, as i work all day Saturdays, I can only attend on the Sunday. So its swings and roundabouts i suppose.

So i was told on Thursday by his agent Bobby Charlton doesn't do commercial signings, but expect the rest of the '66 team to be announced very shortly.

Good news! I was at a Jimmy Greaves show last night and talking to Freda Baker who runs the A1 sporting speakers that represents the Team of 66, Pele etc. She was saying that they are sending down a number of football players including George Cohen, Geoff Hurst etc to the Milton Keynes show in June. It just hasn't been announced yet.

Given the next Collectormania is at the MK Dons football ground, what is the likely of a big sports turnout this time around? The team of '66 with Bobby Charlton included would be a terrific start!

A1 Sporting Speakers who are the agents for the team of '66 as well as many other sports stars told me they are aiming for the Collectormania at MK Dons ground in June. So watch this space!