Wolfgang - thanks for your post above. I'm sure you knew that I intended no offence, and that my comments were a leg-pull of the kind that go on between sportsmen and supporters in changing-rooms and clubs' bars the world over. If, when I was a local league football and squash-player and competitive rower, I'd taken 'offence' every time someone took the piss, I'd have spent my entire life 'offended' in one way or another. But you and I both know how these things go and we are both big enough, mature enough, and good-looking enough to take a bit of ribbing without blubbering like a big daft kid.   :-) :-)

Thanks for your good-hearted response, Wolfgang, and good luck to your team in the competition - may the best team win.