“Hump it, bump it, whack it might be one possible recipe for a good sex life, but it won’t win us the World Cup.”

So said former Chelsea chairman Ken Bates after England failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup, and little did he know how he’d be proved right 16 years later by one of his Stamford Bridge protégées.

So apparently, today has been dubbed National Sickie Day, unofficially of course. It seems that the first Monday in February is when most people phone the office with their best ‘ill’ voice.

An interesting document came across my desk today. It was the breakdown of a
month’s worth of unique hits for an online gadget news site. The figures were impressive and certainly justify our high opinion of this site as a location for client’s coverage.