LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has lost its marbles for the second year running as a German team won the covetted title and silver trophy of the British and World Marbles Championship.
"We lost it big time," organiser Julia McCarthy-Fox told Reuters from Tinsley Green, West Sussex, adding that it was only the second time in the event`s 70-year history that a British team had not taken the title.
"We had better go out and practise. After 68 years of straight victories we got complacent," she added.
To add insult to injury, not only was the final all-German, but the same team from near the city of Dresden in Eastern Germany that won in 2002 -- Queen Elizabeth`s Golden Jubilee year -- flicked their way to victory yet again.
"They are celebrating like mad. You would think they had won the Grand Prix," McCarthy-Fox said.