Ossie Ardiles involved in car accident in Falkland Islands
 

Anyone any idea of the format/content of the documentary - and how they got permission to make it?

Which side of the road were they driving on?.........

Ossie Ardiles involved in car accident in Falkland Islands

Ex-Tottenham midfielder Ossie Ardiles has been involved in a car accident in the Falkland Islands, according to South Atlantic News Agency MercoPress.
Ardiles, 61, was believed to have been driving, with fellow ex-Argentina midfielder Ricky Villa a passenger.

The pair are in the Falkland Islands for a TV documentary which Ardiles' son, who was in the car, is directing. Four passengers have been released from hospital after treatment for minor injuries with three others detained.

Local emergency services and the British military reportedly attended the scene of the accident with those involved flown to King Edward Memorial hospital in Stanley. There has been no statement about the extent of injuries received or confirmation of who has been kept in hospital............

South American footballer? Obviously not a real accident - he'll have dived!

Oh dear! :ok:

AIUI, they're doing a documentary about how the war affected them and their careers.

Ardiles is an Anglophile, and has never - as far as I know - expressed any support for either side in the dispute over the islands; rather he's on record as lamenting the fact that the two countries he loves went to war. (IIRC, the Lt Ardiles shot down and killed on 1 May 82 was his cousin). He went on loan to Paris St Germain, hated every minute and returned to Spurs in 1983; at least two of his sons have spent almost all of their lives here.

Villa - again as far as I know - hasn't expressed a view on the matter of the Falklands, although he was forced to withdraw from the 1982 FA Cup final (or was it the semi final?) because he was being accused of treason by Argentines for continuing to play with the enemy. He is particularly vitriolic (at least in the British press) about the nationalists who came out with this (suggesting that their parents may not have been in a state of wedlock). His daughter holds dual nationality and he still clearly identifies with Spurs, since when Arsenal played Barcelona in the Champions League he was interviewed and said that like any good Spurs fan, he wanted Barcelona to win.

I daresay that the view taken was that neither of them is likely to try to do anything akin to the stunt pulled by the hockey player two years ago, or to be found expressing virulent hatred of Britain, or coming out with propaganda which Mrs Kirchner will just love.

Having driven a Defender from Mount Pleasant to Stanley and back (that being my total experience of FI driving), I would have thought you'd have to go some to have an RTA.

As for Ardiles, good luck to him, as footballers go, he's one of the more articulate ones.

Great scope for a caption competition though!
:ok:

DD - according to the BBC, he took evasive action against a sheep, and overturned the vehicle in the process.

By a quirk of fate, in early 86 I "owned" the Stanley - MPA road for about 24 hours between taking it over from the contractor and handing it to PSA and FI Govt. It was planned to be tarmac all the way but to save money some of it was rolled stone not blacktop. Also when it opened speed limit was 60mph. Within days a young R Sigs lad went from blacktop to gravel at some speed in a SWB L-R , spun and rolled and sadly was killed. Speed limit reduced to 40mph. Has all of it been blacktopped yet?

Ossie Ardiles involved in car accident in Falkland Islands
 

Falkland Island residents test first IED...

could have been a three-legged sheep - lots of those around mid 80s

Apparently they hit a Land Rover that had been used to guard Ammunition stores...................so headline should read.



"Arsenal Defender stops 2 Spurs Attackers"

coat, hat etc....

racedo - a cracker!

Did he fall in the only hole in the runway?

CG

"he took evasive action against a sheep" - sounds like a standard low level sortie down there.....:E

Clealry his second name is Ardiles not Morgan as then it would have been Offensive action against a sheep................

""he took evasive action against a sheep" - sounds like a standard low level sortie down there.....http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/sr...ilies/evil.gif"

normally it's the sheep taking evasive action against "low level sorties;);) by our brave lads...."

Are you kidding? The Stanley Road has long been known for its dangers and has been the scene of hundreds of nasty accidents. Here's how it goes.

Prepare winding track.
Get estimate of Annual Rainfall, but assume you've been given MONTHLY stats.
Dig massive ditches 12 times the capacity needed either side of track.
Cover track surface with millions of rounded stones in lieu of ball-bearings.
Wait for unsuspecting Squaddie in SWB LR exceeding speed limit.
Army officer, "Do him for negligence!"
RAF Officer, "Nothing proven, Sir."
Army Officer, "Corporal!"
Corporal, "Yessir!"
Army Officer, "Is this your Land Rover?"
Corporal, "Yessir."
Army Officer, "Is it in the ditch?"
Corporal, "Yessir."
Army Officer, "Right, you're negligent!"

There are loads of accidents on FI roads. It’s not so much the roads that cause problems, it’s people’s inability to adapt to them. There are usually a couple of accidents every month, despite the in theatre briefings spelling out the risks ad nauseam. The most common cause of accidents is excessive speed going into a gravel bend, with the vehicle skidding straight on and into the ditch.

Wander: There are still very few tarmac sections. It never ceased to make me wonder how their placement was planned, they seem to have been placed at random in parts, so you’ll get 100m of tarmac, then 300m of gravel, then another random lump of tarmac before yet more gravel. Any idea how this came to pass? It seems very inefficient as well as haphazard.

The "idea" ISTR (it is a while ago) was to tarmac the lot - not enough money as I also have a memory that it was not all "MPA" money for the road but also some FI Govt cash, and they were "short". Plan "B" was to tarmac the hilly bits and gravel top the flat bits - so boyo comes charging down the tarmac bit and hits the gravel and hey presto! Storm ditches don't help, as they don't alongside the airfield road, which certainly used not to be wide enough for two standard RAF coaches to pass.

In days of yore it was SOP for the last tasking Chinook of the day to return to MPA to do a quick sweep along the Stanley Road to check for stranded/overturned vehicles. It was not uncommon to find one.