Fifteen Hectic Minutes in My Morning

[Lord Bracknell]

I'm waiting for some news. The phone rings. It's Paul Samrah, who is in the Club Office. No-one down there can get on to NSC.

We talk for about 30 seconds before the mobile phone signal fades away.

Then the postman turns up. With a large brown envelope from the ODPM. [Note to OTLW - it's BROWN, you clown!!!]

Paul Samrah phones again. I ask him whether the Club Office has the letter. "No", he says, "Martin Perry isn't in, he's probably at DMH".

I open the brown envelope. Paul tells me that Southern Counties Radio have just said the decision is NO. Amongst all the stuff in the brown envelope (Collyer's Report, copies of 16 other letters, mostly from Falmer residents, and a final representation from the Club) I find the letter and read it to Paul Samrah - slowly, so that he can repeat what he's hearing to the people around him.

He gets interrupted by a message from Southern Counties Radio, inviting him to comment on the NO decision.

We eventually get to go through the ODPM letter, with growing confidence that the terms of reference for the re-opened Public Inquiry mean that there is no chance that we won't get Falmer.

Phone goes dead again.

I check NSC - completely unavailable.

Try, try and try again. Eventually I get on to find it's all doom and gloom. Thank you SCR.

And then it takes ten more minutes to post my version of the story on the board.

What really impresses me about the last week is that practically nothing has leaked out from the briefing meeting that Dick Knight and Martin Perry gave to Falmer For All last Thursday.

 

[Kryten]

Are you now going to ban OTLW?? he volunteered

 

[Marc]

I check NSC - completely unavailable.

should've posted on NSP then mate, thats where myself and others heard it first

All in all Lord B thanks for so far summing it all up, my heads still spinning and I dont know what to think...but those 20mins sat on my offices front doorstep are the kind of minutes i NEVER want to relive again....EVER!

 

[CHAPPERS]

What really impresses me about the last week is that practically nothing has leaked out from the briefing meeting that Dick Knight and Martin Perry gave to Falmer For All last Thursday.

But now, of course, you can tell all....

 

[Oval Gull]

I'm waiting for some news. The phone rings. It's Paul Samrah, who is in the Club Office. No-one down there can get on to NSC.

We talk for about 30 seconds before the mobile phone signal fades away.

Then the postman turns up. With a large brown envelope from the ODPM. [Note to OTLW - it's BROWN, you clown!!!]

Paul Samrah phones again. I ask him whether the Club Office has the letter. "No", he says, "Martin Perry isn't in, he's probably at DMH".

I open the brown envelope. Paul tells me that Southern Counties Radio have just said the decision is NO. Amongst all the stuff in the brown envelope (Collyer's Report, copies of 16 other letters, mostly from Falmer residents, and a final representation from the Club) I find the letter and read it to Paul Samrah - slowly, so that he can repeat what he's hearing to the people around him.

He gets interrupted by a message from Southern Counties Radio, inviting him to comment on the NO decision.

We eventually get to go through the ODPM letter, with growing confidence that the terms of reference for the re-opened Public Inquiry mean that there is no chance that we won't get Falmer.

Phone goes dead again.

I check NSC - completely unavailable.

Try, try and try again. Eventually I get on to find it's all doom and gloom. Thank you SCR.

And then it takes ten more minutes to post my version of the story on the board.

What really impresses me about the last week is that practically nothing has leaked out from the briefing meeting that Dick Knight and Martin Perry gave to Falmer For All last Thursday.

VERY scary that the Club's press officer hadn't had sight of the letter beforehand!

 

[Gazwag]

It was like the period between Swindon scoring in the play off semi's and that header - from doom, gloom and despire to utter relief that its not all over yet

Thank you Lord B for getting the right story posted - the Adam Virgo of NSC

 

[crasher]

Lord B, are you able to post the full text of the letter?

 

[Scotty Mac]

It was like the period between Swindon scoring in the play off semi's and that header - from doom, gloom and despire to utter relief that its not all over yet

exactly how i felt

 

[Lord Bracknell]

It was like the period between Swindon scoring in the play off semi's and that header - from doom, gloom and despire to utter relief that its not all over yet

Thank you Lord B for getting the right story posted - the Adam Virgo of NSC

As I said at the FFA meeting ...

It's like a penalty shoot out. We are leading 4-3. Both sides have just one more shot to take. Their man is walking forward. The crowd is shouting "Hit the bar, hit the bar, hit the bar". He will.

Curiously, Dick Knight then said ... "What the hell are you talking about?"