DAC FOOTBALLERS SET FOR EXTRA
LUNCH!
How many of our sportier readers out there have heard of the BT sponsored
Five-a-Side Lunch Time Football League? Well, Dial-a-Cab are about to take part in this
sandwich-substitute mid-week football league. From the end of this month, a team
representing DAC will be taking on an assortment of corporates, pubs and general offices
at Spittlefields and attempt to bring back the Silver Cup to Brunswick House. The matches
are for a straight-off 25 minutes and are run on a professional basis - that is with a
proper ref and team colours - and as the name suggests, it operates at lunch-time. There
are unlimited substitutions so most of the squad will get a kick. If not, then the egg and
cress sandwiches are supposed to be rather moorish!
DAC became involved earlier this year when another team, known as the Black
Knights, were on the verge of pulling out having run out of players. We took over their
fixtures and finished the season in a creditable 4th place using the Black
Knights name. Now we are about to venture forward under our own name to take on all-comers
and perhaps win a place in Europe - possibly the Parisian Croissant League??? Good luck
from What’s On…
Our Dial-a-Cab lunchtime league representatives
DELAYS EXPECTED
Yet another addition to the never-ending list of building-works plaguing
the capital in the name of the Millennium. An official press release informs us that
English Partnerships are creating an "exciting new community at Greenwich Peninsula
that will capitalise on the significance of the Millennium celebrations and bring
unprecedented developments to an area of London, which for many years has remained
derelict and yet demonstrated enormous potential." Does that sound like a block of
flats to you as well?
The result is that planning permission has been granted for the above project
be it an apartment complex or the Greenwich version of Shay Stadium and will involve major
roadworks on the Blackwall Tunnel Southern Approach Road (A102M). They are scheduled to
run from August through to the summer of 1999.
TAXI DRIVER OF THE YEAR SHOW
Due to the pressures of printing times, our front page and centrefold
report in the August Call Sign couldn’t contain any photos taken after 2.00pm at the
TD of the Year show! With apologies to Roberto Oliveira (our highest placed driver), Andy
Daniels, David Ammar, Brian Marcantonio and any other DAC drivers that I may have missed,
here is Howard Kott (B74) who was the Quiz Section winner.
