| Understrength Hornets crash out of Cup
THERE will be no repeat of last season's run to The FA Cup Semi-Finals for Watford after Aidy Boothroyd's decision to field a weakened team backfired as Wolves progressed into round five with an easy 4-1 victory at Vicarage Road this afternoon (Saturday). Inspired by livewire left-winger Matthew Jarvis, the visitors got off to a flying start thanks to Andy Keogh's fifth-minute lob. Second-half goals from Stephen Elliott and Jay Bothroyd - both the result of some shocking defending from the home side - then put the visitors on easy street before John-Joe O'Toole netted a consolation. However, any hopes of what looked to be an unlikely comeback anyway were killed off in the last minute when Keogh netted his second to make it just one win, and six losses, for the Hornets in their last ten outings at Vicarage Road.
Cong jeers at Advani, says he did no service to Atal
New Delhi: The Government has put the lid on the Bharat Ratna debate after it decided not to bestow the nation's highest civilian honour on anyone for the consecutive seventh year. And as soon as it became clear that no Bharat Ratna will be awarded this year, Congress leaders grabbed the opportunity to taunt LK Advani, saying the Bharatiya Janata Party leader did no service to Atal Bihari Vajpayee by publicly demanding the honour for the former prime minister. Congress politicians have blamed Advani for creating a 'mess' with his public appeal for Vajpayee. "If he (Advani) was really serious about Vajpayee's recommendation, he should have personally talked to the Prime Minister instead of writing letters and publicising the issue," Congress leader M Veerapa Moily said.
Jeff Ackerman: Customer is always right ... sometimes
My first real introduction (outside of my stellar careers at Jack In The Box and Yummers Roast Beef in San Francisco) to customer service was an eye-opener.
Literally, as in eyeballs opening and closing.
Maybe 28 years ago or so I was working at a newspaper and was in charge of paper boys and girls. In those days, it was OK to hire kids to deliver papers because they hadn't yet been indoctrinated to the notion that the country owed them a living, and their parents actually thought it would be great if the kids paid for their own bicycles, Barbies and baseball cards.
The horror of it all.
One afternoon, a lady called the office to say that one of our paperboys had hit her in the eye with a newspaper, and if I didn't get out to her house "right this minute," she was going to sue me every which way but Sunday, or something like that.
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