Crooked Hound

Pre match talk centred on a proposed visit to Amberley on the 19th of some whenever. A beautiful idyll of typical English countryside with thatched cottages and Tudor pubs. They deserve a visit from the Hound but can they handle it?
There were photos of the hound tent shown and forwarded but due to the sick predilections of some of our readership, I'm not allowed to share. Suffice to say the vicar had done a sterling job of inscribing a name plate to ensure the Hound goes down (in posterity).

Now,  before we kick off - 9 or 10 teams, the Arms were literally kicking (!). The youngsters had arrived but were playing darts only. It was rammed.

Round 1 - Olympians. Only problem was some double barrelled boxer.
Round 2 - Current affairs. Some question about a Nigerian Pasta which I refused to answer on the basis that it was both racist and sexist.
Round 3 - more Olympian gonads; who wore golden shoes?, what colour are the bottom 2 Olympian rings? What do Waterford crystal and Ben Johnson have in common? (You'll have to look that one up).
Round 4 - connections took us from Beckham to Rowling. Apparently they are all Blue Peter Gold badge holders - a theme was developing here.

10 pointers - referring to my notes I only have 'Daren takes it up the a**e' and John Laurie.
We got all 3 so who knows what the questions were.

Half time interviews:
"Not too bad, 10 pointers ok, all comes down to jeopardy"
"No pussies - but I'm sober"
"good jeopardy needed but (the hound needs to) up its game in all departments - no badminton debacles"
"Daren is gay"

Second half was a bit crazy.... All I remember was discussing which symbol was the most redundant:
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Final interviews timed at 22:37
"We had fun and it was up there"
"Let's just hope we got the f&&king jeopardy"

We'd actually been fairly confident on 8 out of 10 on the jeopardy and absolutely sure we didn't know the other 2 so we'd done all that we could.

Sooooooo- it's a long countdown from 10 to 1 but Ladies and the tramp, then Anoraks
and all of our other nemeses came out before Hound was named ebullient and triumphant.

I think a few tears were shed, either that or I had splash back from the toilets. Anyway folks, keep it frosty till next time.