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Andy Halliday Paul Maleary's Ex-Job Downloaded Podcast
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- Personal Journals
Andy attended school in St Albans and his first job was as a milkman. In 1979 he joined the Metropolitan Police as a Cadet he then moved to the regular service and was working in Tottenham when Keith Blakelock lost his life during the riots.
Andy was a member of St Albans Hockey club and went on to represent Gt Britain and played along England Hockey legends such as Sean Kerly and Ian Taylor who went on to win Gold at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. In 1991 Andy was voted UK Hockey Player of The Year.
In his police career Andy was a firearms instructor with SO19 but in July 2005 andy was part of the team undertaking an operation following the attempted bombings in London on 21st July 2005. The entire country was on high alert and bombings and a Brazilian National Jean Charles da Silva e de Menezes was wrongly deemed to be one of the fugitives involved in the failed bombings he was engaged by the police and fatally wounded. These events took place two weeks after the London bombings of 7 July 2005, in which 52 people were killed.
Andy spent 16yrs with England and Gt Britain Hockey, but his published article in the Times prevented his attendance at the 2016 Rio Olympics as there were concerns over his safety and had he attended there would have been increased the risk to the remainder of the team.
Andy cites the 9-2 defeat against Holland in the 2012 Olympics as one of his greatest sporting disappointments and the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo as one of the most unusual due to Covid.
He has undertaken a number of Hockey related challenges including the dribbling of a hockey ball in the London Marathon with Jason Lee. He also did the same on the 3 peaks challenges and Annapurna in the Himalayas. Even Ed Sheeran get a mention in in this podcast.
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Andy attended school in St Albans and his first job was as a milkman. In 1979 he joined the Metropolitan Police as a Cadet he then moved to the regular service and was working in Tottenham when Keith Blakelock lost his life during the riots.
Andy was a member of St Albans Hockey club and went on to represent Gt Britain and played along England Hockey legends such as Sean Kerly and Ian Taylor who went on to win Gold at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. In 1991 Andy was voted UK Hockey Player of The Year.
In his police career Andy was a firearms instructor with SO19 but in July 2005 andy was part of the team undertaking an operation following the attempted bombings in London on 21st July 2005. The entire country was on high alert and bombings and a Brazilian National Jean Charles da Silva e de Menezes was wrongly deemed to be one of the fugitives involved in the failed bombings he was engaged by the police and fatally wounded. These events took place two weeks after the London bombings of 7 July 2005, in which 52 people were killed.
Andy spent 16yrs with England and Gt Britain Hockey, but his published article in the Times prevented his attendance at the 2016 Rio Olympics as there were concerns over his safety and had he attended there would have been increased the risk to the remainder of the team.
Andy cites the 9-2 defeat against Holland in the 2012 Olympics as one of his greatest sporting disappointments and the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo as one of the most unusual due to Covid.
He has undertaken a number of Hockey related challenges including the dribbling of a hockey ball in the London Marathon with Jason Lee. He also did the same on the 3 peaks challenges and Annapurna in the Himalayas. Even Ed Sheeran get a mention in in this podcast.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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