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Can you imagine another UK win?
21stCenturyBoy
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I'm just wondering how I would actually feel if the UK ever managed to win the contest again?
I'm 20 so was only 5 when Katrina won in '97, and although I remember my mum and brother (we were so cultured!) being very excited (and my dad really not caring), the actual buzz after the contest/ in the run up to Birmingham '98 is lost on me.
I think I'm so unaccustomed to feeling pride in relation to the UK entry (although that 12 from Bulgaria in 2011 came pretty damn close!), I can't imagine how I'd feel if the unthinkable should happen and we actually did win again!
I'm 20 so was only 5 when Katrina won in '97, and although I remember my mum and brother (we were so cultured!) being very excited (and my dad really not caring), the actual buzz after the contest/ in the run up to Birmingham '98 is lost on me.
I think I'm so unaccustomed to feeling pride in relation to the UK entry (although that 12 from Bulgaria in 2011 came pretty damn close!), I can't imagine how I'd feel if the unthinkable should happen and we actually did win again!
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(And maybe even all the way to Bucks Fizz winning if you're brave enough to share!)
Blair again!
If you listen to Wogan, he's the reason we came last in 2003!
I think it would be much the same but I will be drunk this time when we do win again and I have faith that this is our year and have already stuck a fiver on at 40/1.
http://www.calculator.net/age-calculator.html
Just Type in 3rd of may 97
I could have sworn I was younger than that!
Run up to Eurovision was completely different in that distant past though, no internet sharing - precious little on TV for the ardent fans prior to the contest....so I guess that's why the media didn't make such a big deal of it
They made more of a deal of Cry Baby getting zero!
That's something I can't imagine- being a Eurovision fan without the internet.
How on earth did you know what other countries had picked before the night itself?!
Preview shows of the videos weeks before. Where my Grandad would always pick the winner.
You're lucky, my first eurovision memory was Jemini :eek:
The funny thing was, that probably wasn't the thing I was most confused about...I mean...how were Israel in Eurovision...they are in Asia...(I used to read Atlas's instead of story books as a young child...sad...but it did give me an amazing geographical knowledge!)
I think 1999 was the first show I was allowed to watch fully, my sister even had "Say it Again" on cassette!
oh dear I'm surprised you became a Eurovision fan after that , its enough to put anyone off.
Sweden also failed to make the final a few years ago and Germany have found themselves very near the bottom of the scoring too. No reason why we shouldn't have these extremes too.
Yeah. My 16th Eurovision this year. Good lord.
I daresay even if we did win everybody would moan about it, the cost of hosting, the fact we didn't get as many points as this person who won etc. etc. There would probably also be jokes about us only winning because all the other countries failed to show up.
Personally would like to see it happen again though to wipe the smug expressions off the faces of those who delight in knocking the UK's efforts, even when they're good. Still recall one of the Sunday papers the day after Jade's performance running with a great big 'UK EUROVISION FLOP' headline. Er, HELLO?????
Should mention at this stage that I also remember watching Bucks Fizz's victory in 1981. In my defence though that is also one of the first contests I ever recall watching (*am archaic*).
Of course I remember Rock n Roll Kids and Eimer Quinn's wins too:cool: