Autumn 2013 has been the single worst season of my bridge career. Actually, do I have a bridge career? Doesn’t a career suggest some kind of financial gain and status, rather than a substanstial loss and rapid downward spiral?
My Autumnus horribilis kicked off with the first of three Premier League weekends, from which we were unceremoniously relegated. Then we jetted off to Monaco for Pierre Zimmermann’s second Monaco Cavendish, in which we did rather well last year and rather badly this time. Then came the Lederer, where we got off to a flying start and a crashing finish. And the final nail (hopefully) in the coffin of disasters was playing Sally Brock’s immensely strong squad in the Hubert Phillips, and getting mullered!
Here is the great rubber bridge stalwart, Robert Sheehan partnering Gunnar Hallberg, with Sally and Barry Myers as teammates, making a difficult defence look effortless:
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