A cooler filled with beers, which they bought at the start of the 2014 World Cup campaign, remains untouched. Instead they all got high on football . The intrigue was heightened by the in house competition, in which 18 TTRN staff members competed each putting a blue note to match their picks through every stage of the competition in Brazil. It was the brainchild of Production Manager Alan Gray who along with his trusty colleague, Traffic manager Vernessa Hinds, printed forms from the FIFA 2014 Handbook while Keyrun Tank Pirmal lobbied staff to join the pool. Eventually 18 signed up, before the competition started, selecting teams from the first round straight through to the finals. Whoever picked the winner got a whopping 100 points added to their tally. They tracked the competition via a huge white board in Vernessas office. After each round, Alan and Vicky painstakingly went through each of the 18 forms and updated the scoreboard. Indeed such was the spirit downstairs in Traffic that staff abandoned the usual fan zone in the TTRN Boardroom, which is equipped with a 50 inch television and crammed into Vickys office, watching the game on their 21 inch screen. The cooler with beers remained untouched, even until today when the points were tallied and it turned out that Alan Gray and 96.1s DJ Sule were the only two who picked Germany as the eventual winner. Alan won the competition which he engineered having scored 515 out of a total of 730 points while General Manager Robert Dash was close behind with 455- even though he did not get the 100 points from yesterdays results because he is a sworn supporter of Argentina. Keyrun, who was voted the most aggressive and vociferous supporter of Argentina has finally, thankfully, boiled down like bhagi.
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 19:14:21 +0000
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