Lenny Rider
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- Sep 15, 2010
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Almost a thing of the past now?
Two from yesteryear stick in my mind.
The first was in the spring of 1981 when the British Davis Cup Tennis Squad were preparing for a tie at the Brighton Centre with a training camp at Worthing Leisure Centre (?)
With team skipper Buster Mottram being a fully paid up member of the National Front it was never going to go down well with a large Young Socialist membership at the nearby Worthing VI Form College.
A now sadly departed NSC’er, then a hotheaded left wing 17 year old student took it on himself to ring up and utter those immortal words “The Nazi C***’ Mottram’s got 30 mins to get out”.
Needless to say the place was evacuated, and the Worthing Herald got a front page lead they hadn’t expected.
The other was the inaugural Gulls Dinner at Chapmans on a Monday evening in January 1989, fresh from the plane crash front cover on the Saturday.
They were just putting the prawn cocktails out when someone phoned the pub and told them we had 30 mins to get out (must have been the norm in the 1980s)
Had we offended the IRA in the previous issues?
Obviously not, because in a drunken telephone rant years later the late Greg Stanley revealed it was him on the phone that night and not Gerry Adams.
No doubt some on here will view this thread as either pointless or offensive but I have to say writing it has been therapeutic.
In the very helpful latest Mental Help thread on NSC I’ve made no secret of the fact Ive recently found myself in a dark place, thinking about and recounting these two perhaps bizarre events has brought back a lot of really happy memories, and I find myself even smiling typing this.
My 1981 17 year old student friend, was at Chapmans that night, as was Roy Chuter, Stuart Ashby, Paul Welch, John Vinicombe and Tony Millard. Now all sadly gone but never forgotten.
As stated in the other thread if you are struggling this Christmas please don’t be afraid to ask for help, by the same token all of us please look at our contacts lists on our phones and think ‘who would love a call?’ and then make it, and make more than one.
Take care
Two from yesteryear stick in my mind.
The first was in the spring of 1981 when the British Davis Cup Tennis Squad were preparing for a tie at the Brighton Centre with a training camp at Worthing Leisure Centre (?)
With team skipper Buster Mottram being a fully paid up member of the National Front it was never going to go down well with a large Young Socialist membership at the nearby Worthing VI Form College.
A now sadly departed NSC’er, then a hotheaded left wing 17 year old student took it on himself to ring up and utter those immortal words “The Nazi C***’ Mottram’s got 30 mins to get out”.
Needless to say the place was evacuated, and the Worthing Herald got a front page lead they hadn’t expected.
The other was the inaugural Gulls Dinner at Chapmans on a Monday evening in January 1989, fresh from the plane crash front cover on the Saturday.
They were just putting the prawn cocktails out when someone phoned the pub and told them we had 30 mins to get out (must have been the norm in the 1980s)
Had we offended the IRA in the previous issues?
Obviously not, because in a drunken telephone rant years later the late Greg Stanley revealed it was him on the phone that night and not Gerry Adams.
No doubt some on here will view this thread as either pointless or offensive but I have to say writing it has been therapeutic.
In the very helpful latest Mental Help thread on NSC I’ve made no secret of the fact Ive recently found myself in a dark place, thinking about and recounting these two perhaps bizarre events has brought back a lot of really happy memories, and I find myself even smiling typing this.
My 1981 17 year old student friend, was at Chapmans that night, as was Roy Chuter, Stuart Ashby, Paul Welch, John Vinicombe and Tony Millard. Now all sadly gone but never forgotten.
As stated in the other thread if you are struggling this Christmas please don’t be afraid to ask for help, by the same token all of us please look at our contacts lists on our phones and think ‘who would love a call?’ and then make it, and make more than one.
Take care
