Football Boom

Having been caught crowing about how the Gazette is not full of limp-wristed second raters after a third-placing in a recent table football challenge (see...Having been caught crowing about how the Gazette is not full of limp-wristed second raters after a third-placing in a recent table football challenge (see [2001] Gazette, 8 March, 14), we have to come clean and admit we had quite a bit of help.

Although grateful for all his assistance in securing our six-inch, third-position cup we do wonder how Neil Boom, associate director of Broadgate marketing the outfit that represents insurance brokers Alexander Forbes, which hosted the challenge got so good at the sport.

Having bumped one of our reporters down the table into defence, things certainly did start to look up as he hammered in goal after goal and there was absolutely no spinning, honest.