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Hello Folks - and The Gentry ...
You might have guessed from my name that I’m actually a Brentford fan ... I hope you don’t mind me posting on your site.
I was a salesman working for a company based in Bamber Bridge and used to talk regularly to Chris as one of our support team - mainly about football - not work ! He was a great PNE fan and we shared a lot of very good-natured banter over the years - especially with fond memories of Gentry Day back in 2014 ; it was some party after the game to celebrate our promotion to the Championship ...
Like a lot of Bees fans, we were looking forward to seeing you all again this year ; and having left the company a couple of years ago, I tried to renew contact with Chris to find out if he was coming down ? It turned out that he too had left much more recently and I couldn’t find any other way of making contact ... Then Covid-19 got in the way of everything .... but I got contacted today by another ex-colleague who said Chris had sadly passed on ...
I don’t know if he had family but hope that someone somehow can pass on my condolences as a fellow football fan ....
Wishing you all good health and reasonable success for the remainder of the season ; maybe you’ll all get the chance to see us at Lionel Road one future Gentry day ... but alas we won’t have a pub on each corner any longer !
However, we too remember that life is more important than football ..... RIP Chris
You might have guessed from my name that I’m actually a Brentford fan ... I hope you don’t mind me posting on your site.
I was a salesman working for a company based in Bamber Bridge and used to talk regularly to Chris as one of our support team - mainly about football - not work ! He was a great PNE fan and we shared a lot of very good-natured banter over the years - especially with fond memories of Gentry Day back in 2014 ; it was some party after the game to celebrate our promotion to the Championship ...
Like a lot of Bees fans, we were looking forward to seeing you all again this year ; and having left the company a couple of years ago, I tried to renew contact with Chris to find out if he was coming down ? It turned out that he too had left much more recently and I couldn’t find any other way of making contact ... Then Covid-19 got in the way of everything .... but I got contacted today by another ex-colleague who said Chris had sadly passed on ...
I don’t know if he had family but hope that someone somehow can pass on my condolences as a fellow football fan ....
Wishing you all good health and reasonable success for the remainder of the season ; maybe you’ll all get the chance to see us at Lionel Road one future Gentry day ... but alas we won’t have a pub on each corner any longer !
However, we too remember that life is more important than football ..... RIP Chris
