Datacenter MacGyver saved the biggest football match of the year
REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); "The IT manager wouldn't work weekends," George told On Call, and that meant he had to attend most home games to provide tech support. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); "Mostly I'd be paid overtime to sit around in the police control room for a few hours, eat free pies, and pretend I was vital to operations," George wrote. "Occasionally, a minor issue would require my input, but typically it was a quiet day spent watching the match in comfort."The club George worked for enjoys an ancient and enormously fierce rivalry with another.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); "The IT manager wouldn't work weekends," George told On Call, and that meant he had to attend most home games to provide tech support.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); "Mostly I'd be paid overtime to sit around in the police control room for a few hours, eat free pies, and pretend I was vital to operations,"
- ▪"Occasionally, a minor issue would require my input, but typically it was a quiet day spent watching the match in comfort."The club George worked for enjoys an ancient and enormously fierce rivalry with another.
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