Offside OFFSIDE! Sporting marriage
Ludlow racecourse and golf course enjoy a perfect sporting marriage, which no man has ever tried to put asunder during their 150 year history.
But a woman?Well, she had a go. Georgina Jenks, sister of former jump jockey Tom, attended the racecourse’s recent charity day, parked her car on the 396 yard par four first fairway along with everyone else and had every intention of driving home afterwards.
However, having had half a glass too much, she responsibly decided to get a lift home. Such a course of action was made all the more practical because a neighbour was returning to Ludlow market in his lorry the following day and could drop her off to pick up her car.
No dirty boots
Former England striker Rodney Marsh has cleaned the entire Stoke City squad’s boots after he lost an online bet with fans.
Marsh tweeted in November he would ‘drive to Stoke and personally clean every player’s boots’ if the team appeared first onMatch of the Day.
When they returned, however, there was no sign of the car. But, on seeing some groundsmen tending a mound she wandered over and asked if they had seen a car. She had hardly uttered the question, though, when she realised the ‘mound’ was car shaped.
“Is there a car under there?” she added, pointing to the mass of foam, bubble wrap and board that had been placed over the vehicle to protect it, not so much from errant golf balls but, rather, ones hit perfectly straight from the first tee.
She could not help but notice either that, attached to the mound, was a sign with a few choice words on it!
She kept quiet, smiled sweetly and drove off - without telling them that her fatherWillie was the racecourse chairman.
The side’s 3-2 win over Chelsea was top of the programme's bill on 7 December. Marsh, whonow livesinAmerica,performedhis forfeitatStoke’s ClaytonWoodtraining ground in late April.
The BBC’s Saturday night football programme usually shows the most attractive or important match first.
The ex-Fulham, Queens Park Rangers and Manchester City player previously confessed he wished he had ‘kept his mouth shut’.
“I said if Stoke were ever first on Match of the Day I’d drive up there and clean the player's boots - that's how confident I was it would never happen,” he said. “It happened, and here I am. Man of my word.”
All boots cleaned byMarsh will be signed by the Stoke City squad and auctioned off to raise funds for the Donna Louise Children's Hospice in Trentham.
Right on queue?
Nobody likes queuing for the bar and Newport Gwent Dragons fans haven’t had to after a new app was introduced to allow them to order and pay for their drinks so they are ready for collection.
The technology, which is provided by a company called Orderella, was trialed in the Bisley Stand at Rodney Parade during matches against Glasgow, Connacht and Edinburgh and is now being rolled out throughout the stadium.
Purchases via the app accounted for around a third of total sales in the first of those matches and the trial has been deemed a major success.
Orderella’s CEO and founder Dennis Collet said “For the first game that it was used we accounted for about 30 percent of their sales,
152 I PC JUNE/JULY 2014 so that was fantastic,” he said.
“We are expanding it now throughout the whole stadium after it was launched just in one stand and there were no issues.
“In our trial with the Dragons we are just doing pick-ups, but we would like to go on to do deliveriestoboxes andthenseasonticket holders could even get drinks delivered to their seats as well. Now all they need to do is sort out the queues for the toilets!”
Snow Landscapes With Just A Broom
Who says you can’t work and have a little fun at the same time?
That's what 51-year-old Seymon Bukharin of Russia did this winter when the school groundsman decided to create snow art while cleaning up the schoolyard. The groundsman, who is in charge of keeping the school campus clean, used just a broom to create sprawling works of art on a field adjacent to the school building.
Bukharin's choice of subjects range from animals to intricate scenes.
“All the students like him a lot,” Russian studentMaria Kondrateva told GBTimes. “When he creates his snow pictures, we all look out of the windows to check it out. So do the teachers. It doesn’t even matter if we have a class at that moment - we can always find a couple of minutes to admire his snow art.”
Out for ducks
A cricket team were humiliated after only scoring three runs between them.
TenWirral Cricket Club batsmen were out for ducks, only the number 11 troubled the scorers, with the other runs coming from two leg byes.
It left Wirral some way short of the 109 they needed to beat Haslington in a Cheshire League Division 3 fixture.
At one point Wirral were 0-8 after six overs before the pair of extras and Connor Hobson - who finished one not out - dragged the innings out until the 10th over.
Unsurprisingly, Haslington needed only two bowlers. Ben Istead captured six wickets in his five overs for the concession of the solitary run, while new ball partner Tom Gledhill returned a rather economical 4-0 from 4.2 overs.
Discussing Wirral’s collapse, Matt Garrett, who came in at number nine with the score at 0-7, told BBC Radio 5 liveWeekend Breakfast: “It all happened in a bit of a blur really.”
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