Helicopters are normally used to speed up things but it looks as if this body is trying to make it a habit. A copter is to be used on in the near future to look into the happenings at a ground in Hambantota. Three members are to make the trip and the cost for the [...]

The Sunday Times Sri Lanka

COPTER FARE, PEANUTS?

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Helicopters are normally used to speed up things but it looks as if this body is trying to make it a habit. A copter is to be used on in the near future to look into the happenings at a ground in Hambantota. Three members are to make the trip and the cost for the copter is in the region of Rs. 400.000. It looks as if this amount is nothing but peanuts for this sports body.

POCKET MONEY PLEASE

The team to the headquarters of cricket took wing two days ago and now officials and others are making a beeline to watch this tournament and have already made demands from the sports body concerned. It looks as if there is a big demand to make this tour as they have demanded, air-tickets and pocket money as well!SO much so they say that a wedding photographer has gone to cover the action during the tournament for the Champions.

RIVALS BATTLE IN THE OPEN

Recently a ladies team made a tour to an Asian country in order to retain the championship which they had won in the earlier edition. This time the team was placed fourth. The team had to witness sordid scenes as the manager and the coach started scolding each other for their poor performance and that too in front of the players. The players were wondering whether they were witnessing a battle between two arch rivals who should have pointed out their mistakes!

WHOSE FAULTS ARE YOU SEEKING?

A high ranking audit committee was summoned to inquire into the audit reports of a leading sports association. This sports committee started finding faults with the high ranking audit committee instead of telling their faults. The high ranking auditors were infuriated and asked the sports body whether they had come to question their faults instead of trying to settle their own faults.

BIG BOSS UNDER FIRE

Twenty seven members of a leading sports body was summoned by the Big Boss of Sports who warned them that they should not quarrel and try to settle their differences amicably. Even then the arguments and quarrelling did not subside. In the end even the Big Boss of Sports had to listen to the lambasting that this 27 had to say about him and the sports body that he governs.

PETITIONS GALORE

Now that the AGMs of most sports bodies is to be held before the end of the month, coaches, judges and officials have sent in their nominations with the hope of being elected to various posts. What’s more even petitions have been pouring in to various sports bodies, pointing out their errors, so that they may not be nominated.

FACEBOOK CRAZY

Stillon the same subject, the lady who accompanied the team to this Asian country as an observer was often seen riding a bicycle instead of keeping an eye on the players and their mode of play. What’s more she was taking pictures of herself with friends and putting them on Facebook! Observers were saying that this lady was Facebook Crazy.

 

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