Silly silly Footballers...

Footballers do such silly things, at all levels of the game.

The one that I've been a part of that sticks most vividly in my mind is my best friend Jon Lewis' stupidity. I was in the process of being shown a yellow card for retaliation (I stuck an elbow in an opposing midfielders rib cage after a dirty horrible challenge by him) and the referee was taking such a long time about it that Jon decided to shout out "Oi ref, stop looking at his arse"... and promptly got booked himself.

Here were a couple of other studig things from the professional side of the game:

In a match against Chelsea that was affected by increasingly thick fog, Bartram (the Charlton Athletic goalkeeper) was unperturbed by the lack of action for 15 or so minutes, presuming his side were on top. He didn't have the, er, foggiest that the game had been called off. "After a long time a figure loomed out of the curtain of fog in front of me. It was a policeman, and he gaped at me incredulously. 'What on earth are you doing here?' he gasped. 'The game was stopped a quarter of an hour ago. The field's completely empty'."


Mark Bosnich, whose other career highlights include being arrested outside a strip club on the morning of his wedding and being sacked by Chelsea after testing positive for cocaine, on this occasion entertained the crowd at Tottenham, noted for having a considerable Jewish following, during a break in play with his goose-stepping, moustache-sporting Adolf Hitler impression.

You've GOT To Be Kidding Me...

...This is a phrase is reserve for one of those times when the truth just seems bizarre, and one of those times was today.

At work I have been busting my gut to get a particular project done in time (Names and companies have been removed). It is the life of an Estimator, you have deadline and whether it’s finished or not, you have to give a final price.

Due to various unforeseen reason, I was recently give a project, approx. value of £1 million to price, and was only given 2 and a half weeks to price it (I should have had 5-6 weeks!)- a near impossible task for a trained Estimator, let alone a trainee! We decided to endeavor and do our best, but with one week until deadline and barely any of the job priced, we bit the bullet and asked for an extension of time. We/ I was shot down and given a firm no. A few days is all I needed.

Now, coming up to a week after I submitted the price, I called the Project Manager to see if our bid (we were bidding against 5 other Contractors) was successful/ in the ball park/ being looked at seriously and to my, probably obvious anger, was told that they hadn’t opened the envelopes yet. My stunned silence provoked him to carry on explaining… and he explained very elegantly that a couple of members on the Clients’ board of directors are on holiday and that they can’t be opened until their return… in another one and a half weeks!!!

You’ve GOT to be kidding me!