Winter Sports driver.
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am not sure what is on your contract of employment, wherever you work, but on mine the word ‘groundsman’ is included in the title, but not part- time mechanic/breakdown recovery
Like most people in the industry, I can turn my hand to using a spanner, which is useful and saves a lot of money along the way, but sometimes people take advantage of you with this knowledge.
Now, professional footballers on the other hand ... do not even go there.
We had a rather prolific striker on our books a few seasons ago, who happens to be banging them in in the Premiership
these days, who owned a very smart Mazda RX-7. What he did not appreciate was the Wankel engine in his vehicle. What annoyed him was the high cost of the oil needed for the aforementioned engine and pestered me for weeks to put some tractor engine oil in his engine to save a few pennies. It took several long conversations, after training, to convince him to purchase the correct oil. The fact he was on more that £2,000 a week at our club makes the story even more ridicules.
A player broke down in his car, between the stadium and the training ground one day, and got myself and the kit man to tow his car back to the stadium, as his
MAKE SURE YOUR GROUND ISFROSTPROTECTEDTHIS WINTER
Our anonymous football league head groundsman, Mr AKA Grasscutter, discusses his second role as a mechanic and breakdown assistant to the ‘stars’ GRASSCUTTER
breakdown cover did not include roadside assistance, but did cover him if the car was at his place of work.
Managers and coaches are just as bad. A young coach at the club arrived one morning with half his exhaust inside the car. He had recovered it from the M6 when it fell off on the way into work. We (two members of the groundstaff) spent the best part of four hours that day welding it back on. When he left the club two years later, it was still intact.
One manager we had approached me at the training ground one morning, asking if I could look at the lock on his car boot, as it was very stiff and he was worried about breaking the key off in the lock
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