ADAM Komorowski’s very popular Music Quiz proved to be yet another great hit on US Independance Day 4^th July when £107 was raised for McMillan Cancer.

The winning team ‘The Ducks’ won, but graciously declined the 1.5 litres of white rum prize - distilled in some obscure island of the West Indies. The runners-up ‘Tommo’s Quartet’ likewise declined the stuff and so the said bottle of rum will go forward to the next appropriate raffle. We will try and keep you posted on the orphan rum’s eventual fate. It might even turn up at the next music quiz which will be held on Friday 19^th September, same place, same time - so be there! All the details are listed on the home-page.

Polish fans watch Euro 2008

WITH another football season coming up and qualifications for the next World Cup starting soon after the big kick off, the club is looking forward to more earth-shaking evenings. When England failed to qualify for Euro 2008 it looked like the summer might pass relatively quietly, but it was not to be because Poland filled the gap left by the five British-Isles countries, none of whom managed to make Austria-Switzerland.

And Sunday, 8^th June turned out to be a real earth-shaking evening when Polish football fans took over the club which bears their name, a very rare sight indeed. But then they had a double-reason for turning out in force because as well as the live TV coverage of Poland’s opening game in Euro 2008 against Germany, the club’s screens also showed the Canadian Grand Prix in which Polish driver Robert Kubica was expected to do well.

In fact he surpassed all expectations by becoming the first Pole ever to win an FI Formula race, thereby setting the stage for the equally important football event in Klagenfurt, Austria, immediately afterwards.

And it turned out to be a strange situation with several ironic twists in it. The first one was that Kubica’s victory had been in a German BMW - also a first for the manufacturers - while the second came in the match which the Germans won 2-0, both goals coming from the boot of Polish-born striker Lukas Podolski.

Unfortunately, the wild celebrations of the Grand Prix result eventually fizzled out, but it was good to see Poles turning out in large numbers to the Polish Club.

The English majority which usually make up the club’s clientele will be coming out in force again from September when England’s qualifying matches for World Cup 2010 begin - on Saturday 6^th September against mighty Andorra. Fabio Capello’s men are deemed to be in with a chance of winning this one which will be played in the Nou Camp Barcelona, a stadium that holds more than the entire population of Andorra.