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Title: Gary Pearce
Category: Rugby
Description: I received a call from the secretary of the Northampton Supporters' Club.
''How much to paint Gary Pearce''
A week later ''We have the money. When can you start?''
The Supporters had taken a few buckets round the crowd at the next home game against Bath, and such was Gary's popularity, both as a player and as a man that they had raised more than enough to pay for the portrait.
''We got as much from the Bath supporters as from Northampton''
At the time he was England's most capped prop, and had been a loyal Northampton player for all of his career.I had played against him many times, and can testify that he was the hardest man on the field and the sweetest man off it. The portrait hangs in ''The Gary Pearce Suite'' at Franklins Gardens. |
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