I don’t believe it! The not so serious side of the industry
©BBC Reel lawnmower man!
the first team and, potentially, playing in and running the reserves, the Wales assistant coach was pictured driving the club’s Toro ride-on mower around the training ground.
“The goundsman is away on holiday,” said Dean. “So, it is a case of all hands on the pump at the moment.”
FORMER Wales striker and current manager of Wrexham, Dean Saunders, has been helping out the Colliers Park groundstaff at the club’s training facilities.
Not content with managing
“There are things I could be doing instead, but I am happy to help out in any way I can.”
When asked if he had cut the grass at any of his other clubs, which included Aston Villa, Liverpool, Nottingham Forest, Galatasary and Benfica, he laughed: “I haven’t. No!”
Not a ‘Rouse’ ing welcome home!
POOR old Steve Rouse. After two days of torrential rain prior to the 3rd Ashes Test at Edgbaston, he enlisted the help of seventeen others to mop up, with many of them working through Wednesday night. Play eventually got underway late on Thursday afternoon. But there was no rest for Steve.
Rain on Saturday, and a day of ‘blotting’, meant another ‘night out’ for Steve - this time it was a one-man job - so that play could begin at midday on Sunday.
To rub salt into the wound, a brief trip home was not appreciated by his partner Jill. “I popped home for my first shave in three days and
she gave me a bollocking for smelling bad,” he said.
Life didn’t get any easier. Warwickshire hosted a four- day championship match two days after the Test and a Pro40 match on the following Sunday. “After that I might get some sleep,” he said.
A little known fact ...
THE first testicular guard (box) was used in cricket in 1874 and the first helmet was used in 1974.
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Therefore, it took exactly one hundred years for men to realise that the brain is also important!
A groundsman driving a ride- on mower in fog along the runway at Dublin Airport was unaware of a Boeing 757 approaching him from behind until it passed just over his head!
The Thomson Airways flight, which was carrying 198 passengers and eight crew, was inbound from Sharm-el- Sheikh in Egypt.
The plane had just touched down when crew reported the ground equipment at the edge of the runway lights.
The Irish Department of Transport’s Air Accident Investigation Unit found the small ride-on mower had been moving along the runway a number of metres inside the edge lighting.
“It had no rear lighting or flashing beacon and it was not equipped with any airband radio equipment
capable of listening out on the control tower frequency,” said the report.
“The operator of the mower was unaware that an aircraft was landing and he did not see the aircraft before it passed his vehicle. It is probable that the starboard wing of the 757 passed over him during landing.”
Several ride-ons had been cutting grass on the side of runways until work had been stopped six minutes early due to fog.
Air traffic controllers were not aware the unsuspecting workman was almost in the path of the oncoming jet when they gave the all-clear for landing.
Air accident investigators are now examining the near miss, which happened shortly before 3.00am on May 29.
Mood swing on target!
A schoolgirl goalkeeper is set for the record books after scoring twice in a single match from her own penalty box.
Fourteen year old Emily Dickson stunned her team- mates, and the opposition, with two huge drop kicks down the full-sized pitch.
With both attempts, the ball bounced over the opposing keeper and into the net during the under-15s match.
By scoring two goals, Emily
helped her side to defeat the Stevenage Vixens 3-2.
The FA’s official historian, David Barber, believes that Emily could be the first keeper in the country to have scored twice on a full-sized pitch in a competitive match.
“I was in a really bad mood” said Emily “because I’d just let in a goal. I took the ball and smashed it as hard as I could when it came to me. It bounced over the keeper and went in. I couldn’t believe it.”
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