{"id":272467,"date":"2025-07-18T16:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/272467\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T16:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:23:11","slug":"funeral-of-cricket-legend-syd-lawrence-takes-place-in-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/272467\/","title":{"rendered":"Funeral of cricket legend Syd Lawrence takes place in Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tufnell: Lawrence a ‘great friend’published at 14:01 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

14:01 BST<\/p>\n

\"Phil<\/p>\n

Phil Tufnell, Lawrence’s friend and former England team-mate, is one of the members of the congregation today.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the BBC outside St Mary Redcliffe church, an emotional Tufnell said his “great friend” was “someone who you wanted on your side”.<\/p>\n

” [He was a ] larger than life character. Filled the room when he came in. We had some great laughs along the way,” the former spin bowler added.<\/p>\n

“He had this great big deep voice. He’d always say hello to everyone. It’s sad that he had to go.”<\/p>\n

Looking back at their time together, Mr Tufnell recalled Lawrence’s serious knee injury, which he suffered while playing for England in New Zealand in 1992.<\/p>\n

“I was playing in that Test match when he fractured his kneecap, and carried him off the field. It was a tough injury. He tried to fight his way back from it but I think it was impossible really,” he said.<\/p>\n

“[But] he didn’t let that get him down and he moved forward with a very positive attitude.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tufnell: Lawrence a ‘great friend’published at 14:01 British Summer Time 14:01 BST Phil Tufnell, Lawrence’s friend and former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-272467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114875165098174695","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}