Every year a group of us get together to watch the FA Cup Final,irrespective of who is playing. This involves meeting in a pub about 3 hours before, taking part in a football related pub quiz, and then watching the footy. The pub we have been meeting in for the last few years has gone downhill recently so a change of venue was required.
We decided on a mini pub crawl in Washington. The kick off was at 1715 so we met in Wetherspons at 1130 for breakfast, trying to avoid watching the royal wedding on the screens.
Now the quiz we do is compiled by one of us every year and we compete for a hard fought small trophy which we have used for a number of years now. I am crap at footy quizzes so have never won it yet. This year was a mix of football and general knowledge
Leaving Spoons, we headed down to the Steps for a couple of pints. I had the trophy in a bag on the seat next to me- big mistake. I was sitting in the corner so had to make the guy on my right to shift when I got up to got to the loo. Coming back, I got back into my seat from the other side - another big mistake. Sitting down , I plonked myself down and sat on the bag. I felt a faint snapping sound under my bum. I rescued the bag, opened it and found the trophy had snapped at the thin stem.
Hastily we asked Gary the landlord for some sellotape, and a temporary repair was effected.
Next we walked along to the Washington Arms and sat in the sun in their extensive garden. Bearing in mind we had now had 6 pints, some of the quiz questions were misunderstood or the answers sometimes total rubbish. Split into two teams, one guy on my team was asked -
"Name the breed of dog that was named after a priest known as the sporting parson."
Pondering this as it was worth 10 points, he had a think until suddenly, one of us on the opposing team shouted out, in a voice loud enough to be heard throughout the garden :-
"Jack Russell!!!!"
We all looked at him aghast as if he had grown two heads. My team member said " Jack Russell". Correct - 10 points
Big mouth was stunned. " I was only joking , I was joking !!"
With him muttering to himself, we returned to the Steps to watch the match and at half time, as a result of his cock up, I won the quiz !!! First time for cup final day. Have spent this afternoon gluing the thing back together.
By the way, after nearly 8 hours of drinking on Saturday , I cannot remember anything about the match.
