Congratulations — yet again — to the England women’s bridge team, who last week won gold at the European championships in Budapest. They have now won medals at the last six World and European women’s teams events which, according to the English Bridge Union, might currently make them the most successful international team in British sport.
I was with them in Budapest the night before the tournament began: the newly bemedalled Sally Brock and I had travelled there four days earlier to play in the European Women’s Pairs. I should have done better with Sally, but we finished a respectable ninth — and I like to think I helped warm her up for Nicola Smith, her usual, brilliant partner!
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