Braggarts win at home to the Historymen

Results & Match Reports

Big match this week was between league toppers, the Historymen and the Braggarts, down at the Griffin.  The Braggarts came out winners and thus stay top.  They still share top spot, however, with St Caths who continued their winning way with a victory over the Pigs - reported to me with the following email from Gary:

"Pigs 29 St.Caths 34

Boo!  But (consolation) a real nail-biter that was level after practically every round - until the last, when Mike Heale opened his legs and showed his class (with Ann Jones)."

Other results this week:

• SWMCC storm back to form with a convincing win over the Brains at the Oak

• Albert Park's new captain, Richard Seed, takes his wife out for a birthday meal instead of leading his men into battle at the Red and - surprise, surprise - they romp home (er, the team that is) against Dr O'Neil

• and last, but certainly not least, really good news from TUFKAC - they achieved only the second tie of the season against the Albert - whoopee!!

Quiz Paper Verdict

This week the paper was set by Snoopy's.  It probably fitted more into the 'let's have a chat about it class' than the 'either know it or don't' class.  A bit of a clanger on 'Barefoot in the Park' being written by Paul Simon rather than his less musical brother Neil, but overall plenty to debate.  Round 6 Question 1 about the Tropic of Cancer could have done with some latitude in the answer as well as in the question, I thought.

The Question of the Week

My choice as question of the week (Round 6 Question 4):

Which 'child'  appears at intervals of between 3 and 7 years?

For the answer and full details of all the week's questions click here.

Fr Megson

Quiz Appeal

 ....and some breaking news......we have just heard that an appeal is being launched against the result of the Historymen v Brains game a week ago.  The following email has been received from the chief Brain himself:

"A Chara,

To give notice of our appeal against defeat by The History Men on 29/01/03 on the following beach-like grounds;

1)  An overweight brain was fielded by Ivor. This is a bantam-brained league and middle-heavyweight brains simply cannot be tolerated.

2) They infringed the foreign player limitation rule by fielding 3 Sassenachs. This rule must be enforced rigidly or before you know it hordes of highly-opinionated Czech ladies already massing on our easternmost borders according to my satellite will muscle their way in drinking our hard-earned beer and taking all the plum QM jobs which are our children's heritage (if we are sober enough to have any of course).

3) The barman was biased. He supplied the home team with mind-enhancing drugs but the stuff he sold us made us lapse into a mental torpor of half-remembrance and self-recrimination (the butterflies were pretty, though). Now I know how poor Mr Bosnich feels all of the time.

4)  One of their players (male) threw a lascivious glance in the direction of Roisin's left ankle which was undergoing treatment for cramp at the time (West Mercian Police file attached).  If this had gone off in an over -priced pub at a time when firemen's hoses were lying intermittently flaccid due to industrial inaction we could all have been engulfed in a toxic conflagration of testosterone and I just hate it when that happens.

5) There were leaves on our table.

See you at the Tribunal with The Chief Electric Pig presiding.

Disgruntled of Ballyboke."

I have the feeling that there's not much going on at Chorlton Post Office this Saturday morning!!