1. The tournament name was later changed to ‘The Bob Cup’.

2. Also being quite old, male and living near a river, all he really needed was to have come from some islands off the West Coast of Ireland and he would have related completely to the lyrics of Nik Kershaw’s 1984 hit song ‘The Riddle’.

3. Incidentally, if you have ever pondered the question, ‘Where do a vole’s innards go when it is crushed flat beneath a fallen picture frame?’ I can confirm first-hand that the answer is, ‘They vanish magically into thin air.’