Uncle Spielberg
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I don't know but he could not have been much more than about 50. Too many good guys going.
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Lance (Canarian Seagull), RIP
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bhaexpress
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Tragic news, great NSC legend, R.I.P.
No, he'd have been nearer 60 I'm sure.
Uncle Spielberg
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still young.
tedebear
Legal Alien
Oh dear - I remember that name. Never met the chap though. How sad!
No that was a bloke called Darren who came from Brighton but used to own a bookies in Worthing near the Hare and Hounds.
Lance was a regular at the bar and I remember having a few with him there the night before England played Brazil in 2002.
RIP Canarian.
I never met him, but as a youngster I vaguely remember one of Her Majesty's finest, in full dress uniform, running on the pitch during an evening cup tie, versus Chelsea I think. While trawling through this board I found out it was him.
I never met him, but as a youngster I vaguely remember one of Her Majesty's finest, in full dress uniform, running on the pitch during an evening cup tie, versus Chelsea I think. While trawling through this board I found out it was him.
I don't think it was an evening game, I think it was the Saturday match against Chelsea in 1967. Yes, there is a newspaper picture of a young Lance in his naval uniform running across the Goldstone pitch prior to the match. I'm not sure if someone like Lord B has it?
aftershavedave
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Just found a photo of the bar, I was thinking of Jason and Debbie.
Lance had a place not far from the hotel we stayed at.
Man of Harveys
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An hilarious bloke for whom the words "lovable" and "rogue" could have been invented. I hate the term "larger than life character" generally but it simply suited him perfectly.
I'll never forget the aftermath of trying to have one drink for every two of his during a very messy evening that ended up down the Gloucester back in the day, around '99-00: just forget it. I was still chucking up copiously when the great man was knocking on my door at 7pm the next evening to drag me to the pub to start doing it all again.
I don't honestly care where the money came from or to whom he may or may not have owed money: he was a brilliant laugh and just brilliant, entertaining company. And more than one of our players enjoyed his hospitality in the Canaries too.
Someone, somewhere here will have photographic evidence of his giant smiling face beaming down on a full pint glass balanced on the horizontal bit at the top of his vast and tatooed breadbasket. Bloody NSC LEGEND.
I'll never forget the aftermath of trying to have one drink for every two of his during a very messy evening that ended up down the Gloucester back in the day, around '99-00: just forget it. I was still chucking up copiously when the great man was knocking on my door at 7pm the next evening to drag me to the pub to start doing it all again.
I don't honestly care where the money came from or to whom he may or may not have owed money: he was a brilliant laugh and just brilliant, entertaining company. And more than one of our players enjoyed his hospitality in the Canaries too.
Someone, somewhere here will have photographic evidence of his giant smiling face beaming down on a full pint glass balanced on the horizontal bit at the top of his vast and tatooed breadbasket. Bloody NSC LEGEND.
SirDouglasLoft
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- Jul 4, 2008
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Terrible news. RIP.
Indeed. I remember drinking with him (and you and a few others) down the Nelson one evening. I was able to match him pint for pint but at 11:00 he walked out on his own two feet whereas I had to be poured into a taxi ...
(Still hoping it's not true)
Lady Bracknell
Handbag at Dawn
Very sad news. They broke the mould after they made Lance! Amongst the very many memories I particularly recall Eva serving him two dinners at the sponsored match. "You've got to build him up", she said....
I have a whole series of pictures which show him at his most "ebulliant". I'll be sorting these out and putting a small tribute together but in the meantime, here's the famous shot from his Navy Days:
I have a whole series of pictures which show him at his most "ebulliant". I'll be sorting these out and putting a small tribute together but in the meantime, here's the famous shot from his Navy Days:
aftershavedave
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i'm sure that every one of us who had the pleasure has that memory brovion!
sadly, giving that he had heart problems back in the day, his demise doesn't come as a terrible surprise...........a great shame
alan partridge
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Never met him but I remember his nickname from when I first started using NSC
Very sad news
Very sad news
Man of Harveys
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I'm sure there will have been more than one but was that the Friday night when the game was called off due to the swamp at Withdean but he put about £500 behind the bar of the LN anyway? It was about the only time I saw him looking genuinely downcast was when he saw that only half of that money had been drunk away, despite people's best efforts.
I think have the photo of him invading the Goldstone pitch in his Navy outfit on the pitch on my PC at home, I'll post it here later - edit, Roz has already done so.
(And if this isn't true - and the great man has always been far from averse from wind-ups, pretending as I recall to be the Black Widow and chatting up myself, Hart's Shirt and others - then it's well worth recalling the fella anyway).
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Barnet Seagull
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Sad news indeed. 