Meet the Family - 20 Questions to Giles the Drunk
By BrianC
June 21 2004
The 2004 series of 'Meet the Family' starts with Giles the Drunk. One of our newer supporters, Giles readily admits to some questionable tastes in music.
Meet the family - Twenty questions to a 'Usual Suspect'
Giles the Drunk
| Real Name | Giles Lester |
| Location | Sunny Slough |
| Occupation |
Occupation : Management Consultant – a grand name for what I actually do !! |
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Favourite: Movie(s) |
The
Shawshank Redemption, The Shipping News, Rare Birds, Four Weddings and a
Funeral, anything with Meg Ryan in it (especially When a man loves a
woman!) |
|
TV Programme(s) |
Eastenders,
Coupling, Friends, The Office, any reality TV (sucker for it!) |
|
Book(s) |
Anything by Ben Elton, Mike Gayle – any comedy |
|
Music |
Brace
Yourself – Prince, Neil Diamond, Counting Crows, Crowded House,
Stereophonics, John Mayer, Rod Stewart, Sia, Chicane. I could go on for
hours (as most of you know !!) !! Fav song ever – American Pie by Don
McLean (NOT any subsequent cover version !!!!!!) |
|
Radio Station(s) |
Radio 1, Virgin, Radio 5. |
|
Food(s) |
Sausage Sarnies with tomato ketchup ! Chicken Bhuna, Mushroom Rice, keema nan, onion bhajis. Cheese and Onion crisps. Lasagne. |
|
Drinks(s) |
JD
& Coke (only usually when I’ve consumed way too much AG), G&T,
AG, Lager, Jamesons & Coke, Port, Champagne, Very Dry White Wine
(pref. Italian or Spanish). Really heavy Red wine (pref Spanish –
Chianti) – that’ll do for now ! |
|
Place(s) to visit |
Places to Visit : Boston (America, not Lincolnshire !!). France generally – loved my two LI trips there ! Newfoundland. Desperate for an Italian adventure ! |
| How long supporting LI? | Just over 1 season |
| Best ever LI game (Excluding 2002 cup final) | Not
many highlights on the pitch yet but it would have to be beating Glos at
Kingsholm in the cup this season. Unfortunately I wasn’t there but ended
up watching it in a suitably salubrious drinking establishment in Staines
– great result. Drank a little bit too much and went on that night to
convince everyone I spoke to in the night club that I’d just bought the
club they were in and took lots of free drinks off unsuspecting punters !!
For a match I’ve attended it would have to be LI v Sale. We won 9-3.
Difficult to explain why – just a really close nerve-wracking game that
we won – loved it !! |
| Favourite LI experience off pitch (Excluding 2002 cup final) |
Tricky
one – there’s been so many already ! Now this may surprise some of you
but probably presenting Anthony (in the Globe in Narbonne) with a ‘World
Tour of Narbonne’ LI shirt – the man was genuinely chuffed to bits –
said a lot about the whole ‘rugby experience’ to me ! Apart
from that just generally spending time with many many truly decent people
drinking, dancing and singing our way through many mad weekends – long
may it continue ! |
| How did you start supporting LI? | My best mate (Big Stu) invited me along to enjoy some rugby, a few pints of Guinness and some ‘diddly diddly’ music ! Never looked back ! |
| What are your non-rugby pastimes? | Golf and Basketball
(although following the neck injury that may have to take a back seat for
a while) and posting on the MB ! It has been kind of all-consuming in
season 1 so the off-season is going to take some adjusting to !! |
| Any Irish connection? | Mother’s
side of the family are from Newfoundland – you don’t have to go back
too far to find Irish descent ! I’ve got a cat called Murph if that’s
any good ? |
| Most likely to say? | Who's round is it ? |
| Least likely to say? | No
I can’t make it to the Paddy’s day game, it’s Mother’s day (sorry
mum !!) |
| Tell us something about you we don't know. | Claim to fame – I was the 4th fastest 100M runner in the country for my age group (U16’s) and have beaten Mark Richardson over 100 & 200M (before he took drugs (allegedly)). |