This amazon delivery driver pulled up outside my home today. I can't imagine there are many Bruce Grobbelaars about.

I tried googling but didn't get any concrete evidence it was the actual Bruce Grobbelaar.

by SteSteB

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  2. From the picture it seems to me that Bruce is part of a local sponsorship effort, alongside J.Dot. Seems the logical explanation.

  5. This reminds me of Terry Butcher’s insurance company, which had the tag line “No. 6 for England, No. 1 for insurance!”

  8. They sponsor him and his projects for pr purposes

  9. Ha, didn’t expect to see that today. I’ve worked for them, they sponsor kiddies football teams with him 

  10. Footballers now yeah, they can retire after playing. But the money didn’t go utterly insane until the early 2000s so you’d be shocked how many players had to go into something else after hanging up their boots.
    I’m an Ipswich fan so one well known example is Micky Stockwell (played for us from 1985-2000, retiring from pro football in 2003) became a kitchen fitter.

    Roger Osborne who scored the winner in the 1978 FA Cup final became a lorry driver, I’ve heard he once delivered something to a site/depot by Wembley and told people he had scored the winning goal at Wembley to only be mocked/not believed.

    An alarming number of former pros also declare bankruptcy soon after retirement, as they don’t have the financial skills/planning/forward planning and advice to transition from the large income to near zero.

    (Although as someone else points out,  Grobbelaar seems to sponsor this team)

  12. I’ve seen this van driving around near me (South Manchester) and did exactly the same as you. Turns out it is THE Bruce Grobbelaar

  14. One of my only celebrity claim to fames is that I had dinner a couple of times with Bruce in his home in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada (circa 2011-12) and watched the league final (Cardiff vs Liverpool) with him.

    I’m originally from the UK, and I’d been sat by his (then) wife on a flight who invited me there, but nobody else in the remote location knew who he was (I think he like d the anonymity)

    Found him a very modest, quietly spoken (but taller than I expected) host

  15. Must be a goalie thing, Nigel Spink does courier work / ‘logistics’

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