WITCH SACKED FOR POOR ATTENDANCE, TRIBUNAL TOLD
By Lucy Collins, PA
A witch was accused of using her beliefs as a scapegoat for her being sacked,
an employment tribunal heard today.
Sommer De La Rosa, 34, a practising white witch of the Wiccan faith, is
claiming unfair dismissal after being...
No, he's a c*nt. He swans in at 4am and queens it up over everyone, and shouts at producers who don't give him his scripts at the right time/don't feed him grapes while dressed in a toga etc.
Genuinely, he's not nice.
At PMQs Tony Blair has just been asked about the AFC Wimbledon 18-point deduction, and whether it was unfair.
He said it was unfair and "the rules should be changed". I wonder if Des Turner could be persuaded to slip in a cheeky Falmer question at PMQs?
If you've got a detailed dossier of evidence about the place or any particular staff you feel have been negligent, you really ought to tell
a) a lawyer; and
b) the local media.
I've met Botham twice, him having occupied number one position in my List Of Absolute Sporting Heroes from about 1988 to 1996 (when I met him the first time). He's a twattwattwattwat.
That's the thing, though. I don't think he should have to "live up to his fame". He didn't choose to be the man of the moment when cricket suddenly became cool again. He hasn't really gone round seeking publicity anywhere (OK, apart from the obligatory autobiography, but who hasn't done one of...
Hmmm. I got drunk last autumn and broke my arm trying to jump over a fence. I was off work for a week. Yes, it was quite a silly thing to do. But it doesn't mean I have a drink problem.
Christ on a bike, that's a bit of a sweeping generalisation. Perhaps he's just a very well paid sportsman in a hot country with a lot of other well paid sportsmen -- and was simply being an arse?
Come on, cricketers on tour are famed for doing this sort of thing, especially in the West Indies. I don't think badly of any of the cricket played by Botham for, er, spending the night with a former Miss Grenadines or whoever it was, or Tuffnell for smoking dope, or Gower and Morris for...