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Dial-a-Cab-sponsored Wembley Football Club
took another step towards the Combined Counties league and cup
"double" when defeating Cobham 3 – 1 to go into the
quarter-final draw. Wembley ‘Lions’ goalkeeper and DaC driver
Lee Pierce (J71) told Call Sign that Cobham
had played a tough match with a few late challenges, "but,"
said Lee, "in the end we were just too good for them and with
our pitch being in such good condition, it allows us to play the
type of good football that we enjoy." Almost as interesting, it was the first full match for Wembley’s new signing Dean Sylvester. He came in from Edgware Town where he had already banged in 20 goals for this season! True to form, in the Cobham cup match, he scored one |
DAC-WEMBLEY INTO LEAGUE CUP QUARTER FINALS |
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 Club Player-Coach Ian Bates scored one of Wembley's goals in the 5 - 0 bashing of Camberley himself and made another for Andy Walker
whilst Paul Shelton rounded the Lions up to three. |
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from Jamie Walker and one each from Paul Shelton, Captain Ian Bates and a Jumo Mitchell penalty. Lee had just two saves to make and he managed those without breaking into a sweat! With Chipstead finally losing their unbeaten tag following an exciting 4 – 3 loss at Sandhurst Town, Lee told Call Sign that Wembley feel that they can now close the gap even further. The season’s biggest crunch match so far takes place at Wembley’s Vale Farm ground in front of what should be a big crowd against leaders Chipstead on Saturday 23 December – around the same time as this earlier-than-usual issue comes out. A win for the Lions and it could be ‘game on…!’ |
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MOST DANGEROUS JOB? DAC’S MICKEY TELLS BEEB YES! |
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well, sort of… In what must have been termed a quiet news day, the world’s TV stations from the UK’s BBC to the USA networked NBC, turned their attention to what the UK’s most dangerous occupation was following a survey carried out by the Discovery Channel. In a totally ridiculous finding, the job of a London cabby was deemed more dangerous and stressful taking into account the likelihood of death and serious injury, working hours, skill levels plus mental and physical stress than a scaffolder, miner, trawlerman or lumberjack! Researchers for the satellite channel’s show Hard Labour, apparently travelled the length and breadth of Britain to seek out the toughest jobs before coming to the conclusion that it was ours due to traffic problems and having to deal with abusive passengers. The BBC News put the item third in line only to a Palestinian rocket attack on Israel and the PM’s apology over Britain’s part in the slave trade 200 years after it had been abolished! Speaking to BBC’s Breakfast news, several London Taxi drivers agreed that driving in all that traffic was stressful, but several smiled coyly while nodding affirmatively when asked whether it was the most dangerous job in the UK. Unlike the others who had been recorded on video, Dial-a-Cab’s Mickey Tarbuck (L41) was interviewed live on air and coped as well as the interviewer - Sarah Campbell! She asked Mickey how dangerous the job was. He replied that the constant heavy traffic undoubtedly took its toll on drivers, but that the hardest part was when |
 Mickey
live on BBC Breakfast News
passengers jumped in and asked for a
destination they had 15 minutes to get to when the driver knew
it would be touch and go. "That can be very stressful,"
said Mickey, who went on to add that following a quiet few
months when Congestion Charging first came in, levels had now
returned to what they were before! |
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CABBIES KIT RUN! |
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Wembley are being sponsored by a taxi company! No, it’s not an attempt by the FA to recoup some of the £800million-plus spent on the new national stadium, but a kit sponsorship deal for Combined Counties league, Wembley. The deal was brokered by Lee Pierce, a London cab driver who helped get a set of fleeces as training tops as well as sponsored kits. Pierce used his inside "knowledge" to get the sponsorship for the club. "I knew we didn’t have any training tops," he said. "Dial-a-Cab had given their drivers black fleeces and I contacted the head office to ask if there were any more to spare. "The next thing I heard was that Chairman Brian Rice was going to let us have 18! "Then things got better when Alan Fisher – editor of the Company’s magazine Call Sign said they were going to sponsor two sets of kits." Courtesy of The Non-League Paper |
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