So Five are showing this year’s World’s Strongest Man (hint: if you don’t want the result spoilt, don’t search for World’s Strongest Man on Youtube. Or Google as well, probably). It’s entertaining, but in becoming more like a “proper” sport quite a lot of the fun these days has been sucked out of the event staging – instead of a large dumbbell which weighed the same as a motorbike, why isn’t it actually a motorbike?
Anyway, here’s a documentary on the competition’s glory days:
IN OTHER NEWS, I successfully defended another £11 from all comers, and I have added it to the BotherSOP winner’s pot which I intend to take home in June. But would you like one final chance to win some money to enter the BotherSOP for real? David Bodycombe and UKGameshows.com is stumping up a whopping £50 in prizemoney for one final freeroll event next Thursday, the 5th January at 8pm. All the details! You can now buy into the first event proper on Sunday 8th January as well.