The Plank

Well thanks to the eagle-eyed BlueStorm my hopes that my Mastermind performance would fly under the radar didn't quite happen. Has been fun watching the thread the last couple of days but was unable to comment until the show aired. Not making excuses for my crappy performance but the whole experience was a nightmare.

Wanted to provide a bit of context.

When I arrived for filming the first person I met was another contestant doing Man City as her subject; well Man City: The Premier League Years. Given that the show had refused to let me do the Blues in the post-war era I was a bit surprised she has been allowed to have that. When I spoke to the producer about this I was told my post-war request had been turned down because their would not be enough questions of interest to the audience at home - I thought that was a piss poor reason and told them I thought it was unfair. Was theN basically told I could either do my subject as is or bugger off home.

So to the chair...my two mins actually took closer to 15/20 to film. Originally my answer Belle was given as correct but then the same producer as before interrupted to say the answer was Belle Brummie and must be counted as incorrect, John Humphreys then got involved to say he thought it was ok and stood by his call to say it was right. So for about 10 mins I sat on that bloody black chair with the full spotlight on me waiting for them to decide. Of course they went against me.

I think after all this I was pretty flustered and just pissed off with the whole thing, at least that's what i'm putting the general knowledge round down to.

I know I could have done much better and know plenty of folks on here would have got the lot. But glad i gave it a go at least. I'm back in Brum for the Fulham game so you can get my autograph then! KRO