Luci Sandor’s blog

In a slightly uninspired article published in today’s The Guardian,
Lembit Opik gives his five reasons to support Romania at the Euro 2008. The less convincing of them is that a much inspired goalkeeper from his constituency, standing no chance to be capped in the Welsh team, might find his place in the Romanian team. Quoting: "Unfortunately a goalkeeper from Montgomery Town FC is never going to be signed in the UK, but Goodwin is certainly good enough for an audition with Romania. I think if we support Romania, the least they can do is give Steve Goodwin a chance to be one of the most impressive goalies in a former Soviet Union country."
I am afraid that he only confirms a general stereotype about the disconnection between Gabriela Irimia and her birthplace, since Romania was never part of USSR, yet the cheeky girl might not have noticed. Alternatively, may I suggest that an MP with such deficiencies on contemporary history should not be capped in a national diplomatic team - be it UK’s or the Estonian one.

As the train was making its way out of the Newark Airport station, I saw a man on leftmost rail track, just past the place where the airport-bound highway passes above the tracks. His gait look as if he was inebriated, he wasn’t wearing the bright colored work clothes of the rail workers, it was close to the peak hour. The chance of seeing him smashed by a train were so obvious, that I went straight to the first NJ Transit employee and told him. This was the guy who checked the tickets in the fourth and fifth cars in the Trenton train which reaches Newark around 7 PM. He looked at me as if he believed me, but kept checking passengers’ tickets. I repeated what I said, and he thanked me again. So all I am left to do is to blog it, live: West-bound trains out of Newark Penn Station will most likely suffer “30-60 minutes delay due to police activity”. Enjoy.