Went to the World Marbles Championships Today...

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

... at the Greyhound, Tinsley Green, Crawley. No idea WHAT the f*** was going on there, except me Jamaican mate Patrick was playing for England. Many Germans present in matching tracksuits, more media tripping over each other than there were spectators, more natural born English beardy freaks than the Falmer NIMBYs ever managed to muster at the Public Inquiry.

Top afternoon out, if a tad surreal. But could the next NSC'er to visit the pub do us a favour. Take along a sledgehammer and beat the fcuk out of the 'Italian Job' fruit machine. Cos if you get a line of three minis / Union Jacks up, it simply DON'T PAY OUT. Complain to the manager / landlord and you'll some of the ol' Nothing To Do With Me Mate It's A seperate Company. Then he'll switch the thing off. In which case he won't mind you reducing the thing to a heap of matchwood aye?

 

[magoo]

Why do Marble(ists/ers?) need tracksuits?
And how did i just know there would be alot of Germans!?!?

Were there any wierd and wonderful techniques that you noticed?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Only the Germans wore tracksuits. I guess it's a uniform thing. Didn't notice any weird and wonderful techniques to speak of, being off me face on Carlsberg Export at the time. Many of the British teams practiced the same warm-up techniques as THPP it would appear...


Germany retains marbles world title

'British teams claim drinking too much beer made them lose in the 72nd World Marbles Championships against Germany for the second year in a row.

Twenty teams competed at a pub in Tinsley Green, West Sussex.

Several hundred people watched the action as it unfolded in the 6ft diameter rings set up in the car park of The Greyhound pub.

However, as the effects of alcohol set in among some of the British entries, reigning champions Saxonia Globe Snippers held their nerve to retain the World Marbles Cup after winning it for Germany for the first time last year.

The ladies' cup went to Jen McGowan, from Middleton-on-Sea, West Sussex.

.. McCarthy-Fox [president of the British Marbles Board of Control] said: "The British players have lost their marbles altogether. It was too much alcohol and not enough practise.

"They have had so much to drink they are not even too bothered at the moment. They are vowing to practise and win next year.

"If you put a lot of men in a pub environment and there is beer or marbles, what are they going to choose? they are going to choose the beer."

 

[Lord Bracknell]

How is this sport funded? Is it worth getting an NSC team together?

The reason I ask is that, years ago, I had some mates who played tiddlewinks "seriously". Everyone thought they were a bunch of sad individuals who should have stuck to the beer.

Until the truth finally dawned.

They got themselves selected for the England International 'winks Squad to play against the United States in a tournament in California. All expenses paid.

They lost. But what the hell?

Maybe marbles isn't as glamorous - the World Championships are held in Crawley. Do they have any inter-continental tournaments in glamorous places?

 

[Biscuit]

I would join...and practise everyday for an all expenses paid 'holiday' to the states!

 

[Eddie the Seagull]

I'll have to dig out some of me old 'Dubbers'!

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Balls

 

[Is it PotG?]

Get down to Tinsley Green today for the rollathon.

Kick-off about 10.30am.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Get down to Tinsley Green today for the rollathon.

Kick-off about 10.30am.

Is it PoTG?

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Top afternoon out, if a tad surreal. But could the next NSC'er to visit the pub do us a favour. Take along a sledgehammer and beat the fcuk out of the 'Italian Job' fruit machine.

No, you do your dirty work and we’ll stick to our own. It’s each to their own with problems nowadays, we’re a self preservation society.*





*it took 20 years for me to think of that one.

 

[Dick Head]

I would join...and practise everyday for an all expenses paid 'holiday' to the states!

How times have changed.