ON YOUR BIKES
Two genuine if delayed quiz questions decided this month. The vast majority of quizzers decided on a former champion winning the snooker and so gained points. Very few chose a German winner of the Champion’s League but since these sages included Steve Davis, Bayern’s success was enough to give him the lead. Now 180 cyclists will spend the next three weeks cycling round France, the very opposite of behind closed doors. Many, if not most, of the world’s tennis players will play for the US Open in their bio bubble. English cricketers will play T20 cricket, watched by only TV cameras, some from the BBC. Expect further movement in the League. Why not try to improve your chances by trying to answer the Ryder Cup quiz below?
10) Snooker’s greatest star, Ronnie O’Sullivan, won his sixth World title in emphatic style.
He gave the Sunday night crowd only one frame to appreciate his genius.
What’s this about; spectators in an indoor arena when us cricket fans are not allowed to socially distance around a huge field, sleepily watching red ball cricket.
Don’t get me started on the random nature of the new normal!
The first day of the final was a scrappy affair as both Ronnie(FORMER CHAMPION)and first time finalist Kyren Wilson, recovered from epic semi finals. The second afternoon saw Ronnie at his best with Wilson so punch drunk, he tried to take an early break. Hendry’s record of seven titles is next in the Ronnie sights though it may take time; hard to remember that the perennial pre tournament favourite last won seven years ago.
In those seven years, the sport has tended to favour steady percentage players, Ronnie’s charisma makes him a top draw. He can be so gruesome in front of a microphone; this week’s pearl.
” The sport’s lower ranked players would not even make half decent amateurs.”
Nonsense, unfair, calculated to enrage the ruling body as they strive to imagine the post-Ronnie era.
14)Us cricket geeks reserve our worst curses for football played in August but a succession of thrilling games in the knockout tournaments to decide the Champions League and the Europa League have made us pause. The stories have built evening to evening to show what is gained when the cautious safety firm approach in home and away games has to be ditched.
The Champions League Final certainly saw the best teams in Europe. Bayern had put ten goals past Spurs, seven past Chelsea but saved the ultimate humiliation for Messi’s Barcelona, winning 8-2.
So Bayern could score goals but could their defence keep them out against the PSG forward line of Neymar, Mbappe and Di Maria. Neymar, sometimes thought the most overpriced footballer ever, suddenly looks a bargain in the mad world of football transfers. Di Maria, a resounding failure at Man U, reminds you how often English football fails to draw the best out of foreign players, confirmed by the pallid performance of the Manchester clubs in Lisbon.
The final itself was a little disappointing, a tight, tense affair with few chances and no match in excitement for the Europa League final won by Seville two nights before. Bayern(GERMANY)won their sixth title, with the single goal ironically scored by a Parisian. The Qataris who own PSG will have to wait a little longer for world domination in football and content themselves with their ludicrous World Cup played in slave built stadia.
You may notice as you look for your place in the League table that there is a third column.
This is the tie breaker where points are gained for answering Quiz Questions on events that have been cancelled. This month’s topic is the Ryder Cup.
1)The intended captain of the first British team in 1927 is the figure on top of the Trophy.
Who is he?
2)The first European team to play in the Ryder Cup in 1979 included two Spaniards.
One was Seve. Who was the other?
3)The Ryder Cup has been held twice in Scotland, Boris’ favourite holiday haunt.
The second was in Gleneagles in 2014.What was the venue of the first?
4)Which American, in complete contrast to his reputation, angrily broke his putter on the 6th green but using the edge of his sand wedge took his match to the 18th green. Who was the culprit?
5)Six holes in one in Ryder Cup history. One clinched a 5&4 foursomes win for Europe.
Who hit the shot?
6)Who has been the oldest Ryder Cup player(51)
and the youngest(19)?
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