Datacenter MacGyver saved the biggest football match of the year
ON CALL The 2026 FIFA World Cup continues and at the time of writing, The Register's home nation – England – remains in with a chance to bring home the trophy!
We therefore devote this week's edition of On Call, our weekly reader-contributed tale of tech support, to the beautiful game.
We're able to do so thanks to a reader we'll Regomize as "George" who once pulled off a great save when, decades ago, he worked as one half of the two-person tech team at one of Europe's most famous football clubs.
"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.
"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...
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