BH
People were still blaming "Iraq" as the one and only reason for UK's lack of success until a couple of years ago. I think in 2000 Nicki French's poor performance was blamed on Britain not adopting the Euro as its currency, and there was at least one contest in the 1980s when British football hooliganism was given as a reason.
The first full contest I watched all the way through was in 2002, when Jessica Garlick came third - and I seem to remember she didn't get much praise at all even though that would be an amazing result today, most articles and interviews focusing on the fact that she didn't win! We'd had three poor results in a row before that and Katrina & The Waves was only five years ago, so third then was still seen as an average UK result and a return to the status quo. Then came Jemini...
BillyH
Founding member
Obviously Brexit will get the blame if we lose and despite some awful efforts over the years we've ended up at the wrong end of the voting board (as have others) a couple of times in the last few years with entries which should have done better, but in all honesty I suspect Europe care alot less about Brexit than we do. They just think we're fools.
People were still blaming "Iraq" as the one and only reason for UK's lack of success until a couple of years ago. I think in 2000 Nicki French's poor performance was blamed on Britain not adopting the Euro as its currency, and there was at least one contest in the 1980s when British football hooliganism was given as a reason.
The first full contest I watched all the way through was in 2002, when Jessica Garlick came third - and I seem to remember she didn't get much praise at all even though that would be an amazing result today, most articles and interviews focusing on the fact that she didn't win! We'd had three poor results in a row before that and Katrina & The Waves was only five years ago, so third then was still seen as an average UK result and a return to the status quo. Then came Jemini...
