15.2.22
The Players (still no apostrophe) Championship ended on Sunday, and I enjoyed myself immensely! It had been too long since my last snooker job, and I settled back into my role seamlessly. Fortunately, I have another event coming up next month, so I'm already wishing away the rest of February!
Neil Robertson was a little bit too good for Barry Hawkins in the final, steaming ahead to an early lead and never letting his opponent get too close after that. Nicola operated the afternoon session, which was markedly better than the evening session I did, but hey-ho. Between us we got a bunch of stats aired, and I kept chirping up with anything I fond remotely interesting!
I have a tennis trip to Qatar in a couple of days, and upon my return from Wolverhampton on Monday I began my preparation. This included an unnecessary mini-panic about a Fit to Fly test and equally unnecessary trip to a nearby test centre - which I blame on Super Bowl-induced tiredness - but I did get it sorted later that day.
There's a mountain of forms that require filling in for the journey, and there's always a mild fear that I've missed something whenever I go abroad (particularly in COVID times). But work is excellent at giving us a full checklist, so I imagine I'll be fine, just as I have been on all previous trips. Fingers crossed that my next blog post comes from my Doha hotel and not the Holiday Inn off the M4 near Terminal 3!