Woking tweet plea for help after manager loses phone contacts again

Boss Alan Dowson says it’s the quietest day he’s had since becoming manager.

Woking sent out an unusual request on Twitter after their manager “lost his phone contacts”.

The club tweeted an appeal on Tuesday for anyone who has Alan Dowson’s number to get in touch with him after “the quietest day he’s had since becoming manager”.

Quite how he lost the contacts remains obscure, but bizarrely this isn’t the first time it has happened.

Kingstonian tweeted out a similar request back in 2013 when he was manager there.

To lose one lot of phone contacts may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness.

Among those now getting in touch with Dowson, who took charge of Woking in May, may well be Sky commentator Martin Tyler.

The 73-year-old is on the coaching staff at Woking, who were beaten 2-0 by Watford in the third round of the FA Cup earlier this month.

While Dowson may be unusually careless with his phone contacts, he certainly seems to have things sorted on the pitch.

Woking, who were relegated last season, sit second in the National League South and have won their last eight league matches.

HONOLULU (AP) — Days after the Hawaii attorney general’s office released an outside report that flagged communications issues in the response to the deadly August wildfire, Maui County officials pushed back and offered “clarifications” on some of the report’s details.

Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez released a first phase report Wednesday by the Fire Safety Research Institute that said a broad communications breakdown left authorities in the dark and residents without emergency alerts during the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century.

The report did not answer questions about cause or liability. It also said it is only an initial reckoning and two more reports will follow. Investigators are still trying to get some documents from Maui County.

Late Friday, Maui County issued a statement with clarifications on various details in the report, including when Mayor Richard Bissen issued a county emergency proclamation among other things.

Lopez responded in a statement Monday that the attorney general's office welcomes Maui “supplementing the facts.”

The Aug. 8 fire killed 101 people and destroyed much of the historic town of Lahaina.

FILE - A general view shows the aftermath of a wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. Several days after the Hawaii attorney general’s office released an outside report that flagged communications issues in the response to a deadly August wildfire, Maui County officials pushed back and offered “clarifications” on some of the report’s details. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

FILE - Wilted palm trees line a destroyed property from the August wildfires, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. Several days after the Hawaii attorney general’s office released an outside report that flagged communications issues in the response to a deadly August wildfire, Maui County officials pushed back and offered “clarifications” on some of the report’s details. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)