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Franck Ribery?

Gary Neville?

Franck Ribery?

Gary Neville?

FGW Alert: Tue 20/6/2006
Full advertised service
Nat Rail: 08457484950

On arrival at the station I'm advised that my train is cancelled due to 'technical difficulties'. WTF does that mean?

How hard is it to send a text message advising your customers (I pay ?157.50 pcm) for this 'service' (the train not the text) of the actual, truthful state of the service?

I could have had an extra half an hour in bed or at home, or I could have taken the bus and tube option. Now I will be crammed on to the next train, which will have no extra capacity to accommodate us. Two trains in one. Wow! That's cost efficient!

Maybe next month I will just neglect to pay for my ticket claiming that I had 'technical difficulties' (I forget? It was too hot? Wrong kind of leaves on my broadband line?) and see what happens....

SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Public manager | Leading questions:

What are the main challenges to employing disabled people? Deep-rooted assumptions that disabled people are unemployable. Yet we have four government ministers who have a disability: David Blunkett, Gordon Brown, Jack Straw and John Prescott.

As usually happens, I found this while looking for something else.
Now, I think we all know what David Blunkett's disability is. Gordon Brown obviously has a chip on his shoulder about not being PM (really, he is blind in his left eye), which must be quite disabling at times. Jack Straw has some kind of speech impediment, I suppose (oops! wrong again, Jack Straw suffers from tinnitus).

But John Prescott? What could it possibly be? (Foot-in-mouth syndrome or oral dyslexia, for starters...)

Dudek Surprised to Be Off Polish Squad - New York Times: (also http://sports.bostonherald.com/soccer/view.bg?articleid=141199)

Jerzy Dudek was the man in front of the net who helped Liverpool win last year's Champions League final, saving two penalty kicks against AC Milan in the shootout to complete the comeback win.
Robert Pires was a key player in Arsenal's run to the final in this year's competition, where the team took the lead but eventually lost to FC Barcelona.

Both were left off World Cup rosters for this year's tournament in Germany.

''I rang my cousin, who told me I wasn't going,'' said Dudek, Poland's starting goalkeeper at the last World Cup. ''I thought it had to be joke. I thought I'd see on the news it was all a big joke.

''Days before (Poland coach Pawel) Janas announced the squad, we spoke and I was going to the World Cup.''

Pires, who played for France when the team won the title at home in 1998, missed the last tournament and apparently is out of favor with Raymond Domenech because the coach does not trust players born under the sign of Scorpio [my emphasis].

...

"Scorpios, such as Robert Pires, are said to be the principal victims of this practice as, according to Domenech, "they always end up killing each other"."
http://www.noticias.info/asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=182033&src=0

So, criticising the manager's tactics has nothing to do with it then?

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