I must acknowledge to experiencing a sense of Schadenfreude on hearing that Principal Christi College, Oxford holded been deprived of their University Challenge rubric for fielding an illegible squad member. Much holds been write on Gail Trimble the knowledgable squad captain ( and a good deal of it rather inexcusably cockeyed ), but rattlingly small holds been stated about the existent scoundrel of the piece, SAM Kay, who was no more a educatee at the college at the clip the final was entered. It was for this very ground that I lost out on looking on University Challenge for Sheffield back in the summertime of 1999. As I was a postgrad educatee at the clip making a 1-year maestri course referable stop in Sept of that twelvemonth, I was ineligible as you shoulded be enrolled at the university for the following school year. This was done clear in the directions the brotherhood haved from Granada TV. As no-one else looked awfully interested, I was posed in charge by the brotherhood officer and fetch up as squad selector/manager. A business which generally regarded making equally many saloon quizzes as posible - or at least that was our exculpation. Ironically it would't hold weighed if I sought to chisel the system as we were extinguished in the 2d round at once when I was still a registered pupil. But as Jeremy Paxman tells `` regulations is regulations ''.

Being a champ of the underdog and with an anti-elitist run runnng through me, I e'er incline to support the other squad on UC, whenever a squad from Oxford or Cambridge is playing. So naturally my understandings pose with Manchester instead than Oxford during the final. There Holds a mass of snobbishness about universities, particularly in the UK. But the fact is that a grade Holds a level, irrespective where it comes from. A alumna of Boatrace College, Oxbridge may be in a better place on the employ marketplace than a alumnus of the University of Barrow-in -Furness ( erstwhilely Barrow-in-Furness College of knitting and upholstery ), but it Holds the endowments of the single tht affair presents, and what that mortal makes with those endowments.

I look frontwards to the day that the University Challege trophy comes to Barrow-in-Furness.

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