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I worked for Thames Water for about 5 years on a sort of secondment when the COmpany I was with won a Term Contract to oversee maintenance and repairs across their property stock.
If you think TW is in a bad state then you're wrong..... it's far, far, far worse than that.
The Aussies and the Chinese have bled them beyond dry. It was almost frightening the state of their buildings
One thing I learnt -- Slough STW had (has) three of these great big machines that separate shite from fluid and basically keep a vast area of West London from becoming flooded with our own crap. The bloke running the facility told us that number 3 had been off line for years and had gradually been stripped for parts although it was a back up previously. So we asked why only one machine was working at the moment - this was because the other one now the back up but he was having to use that for spares as the Head Office wouldn't sign off on keeping him stocked. His words were (with no irony)... "we're one serious breakdown from being right in the shit"
Scandalous and that's from me who is a capitalist to the hilt.
There were plenty round me who had jibbed in and I witnessed plenty of others trying
Sorry to disappoint but the vast majority of those were clearly local to Wembley and the NW London area. None of it seemed planned to me, just opportunism.
Sorry if that doesn’t suit the bash the fans stance or and fuel to the selectively morally outraged
As England fans of long standing age can all testify; we’d often amass outside foreign grounds and the local police would find space to allow us inside. For free. The theory was you’re better a container problem than a problem on the loose. That simply doesn’t happen now.
What does happen quite regularly these days though is that certain concerts will have an element who violently play the numbers and aggression game. I’ve seen and heard of proper horrific events going on. This rarely gets reported for various reasons and certainly wouldn’t get the hyperbole of this documentary (which I shall watch this evening with lots of snorty noises from my nose)
The morning walk with my dogs is something I hate missing if I have to get onto site or into the office early these days If we are on our own it’s a great head clearer; if we meet other people it’s usually a good natter.
I'd like to extend my warm thanks to him for his efforts in keeping us up this season.
What a guy.
Taking that fella, can't recall his name, off of our hands thus enabling Marti to bring in the Danish Jesus and a couple of others was a real shot in the arm.
Get well soon Tone and hopefully you'll be on the pitch soon for your forever R's induction