Someday I'll write a book about this job. Two days we've been rigging now and we still only have 10 of our 12 cameras working. By contrast we had 80 cameras working by this point at the FA Cup Final.
Things are not going well!
Security is fucking ridiculous. Got into a royal rumble with them on day one when they tried to confiscate virtually everything in my luggage. I kind of won that one, lost my deodorant and bottle of water but managed to hold onto my tools and fags. We've been searched literally dozens if times every day.
All the equipment is junk, we have spares for absolutely nothing, and we're now at the point where we have three hours tomorrow morning to make it all work.
Just been reading the list of banned items for the Olympic football, security is on a par with airports, obviously shitting themselves about Al-Qaeda.