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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20010924
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Byline: Christopher Morley
CBSO chief executive Stephen Maddock surveyed the abandoned chaos around him and wished himself 'Happy birthday'.
Half-empty glasses littered the beer-stained table, sachets of chips spilled their contents everywhere, and somewhere in the airport most of his players were caught in a logistics loop which meant their going through the whole check-in and security circuit a second time; 'you have to throw a six to get off,' joked one wit grimly.
Yet no one was to blame for the mayhem (apart, that is, from the terrorists who had wrought such ...
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