THE WEEKEND

The good news.

Leicester Tigers thrashed Quins to go though to the Heineken Wild Card final. Hopefully they can make it and salvage something from the season.

And the weathert here was great. Lots of lovely sunshine.

The bad news. Where do I start?

Leicester City - for 30 minutes or so it looked like they were going to do it. 1-0 up, against the run of play, from a Paul Dickov header. Then the inevitable happened and Arsenal superior firepower took them to a 2-1 victory. Damn.

Sailing
Race 1 – Saturday afternoon. 8th out of 14 – not too bad…. Except that when we got back to the dock we discovered that 1 boat was protesting all the rest of us for apparently sailing the wrong course. And they were right damn them. So 13 boats disqualified and only 1 finisher, who then gamely retired (otherwise there wouldn’t have been much point in any boats turning up on Sunday!).

Race 2 – Sunday morning – last run down the harbour before the final beat up to the finish lone. We’re somewhere in mid-filed again when “BANG” – whoops. There goes the spinnaker halyard. No spinnaker so all the other boats steam past. We retire and head back to the dock for emergency repairs in the hope of getting out for race 3. Sadly time runs out on us and we can’t get back to the start in time, so retire to the bar for some liquid solace.

So final results – disqualified, did not finish, did not start – I think we can safely conclude we were last overall. Dennis Conner is not going to be quaking in his boots.

Ah well. Another year maybe….