What have you won in competitions

Went to play in a Steve Cram $BBB charity golf game at Slayley Hall partnering John Craggs. John hadn't had his ankles fused at the time so needed to play from a buggy. We fancied doing well because we had won a few things together. The course was waterlogged and they would not let buggies on the course. We were gutted, and John had to sit it out whilst I played on my own. Played well , but had no chance.
Dinner on the evening with the usual charity auction and blind raffle prizes for each table. I won a lovely pair of all leather Footjoy Pro's .
Other than that, £50 on premium bonds the odd bottle and a few quid on charity raffles over the years.
 
I had a letter published in Match Weekly which was the star letter back in the early-mid 80s, it was all about how money would spoil the game as owners got involved purely to make money (I know, Nostradamus stuff). I won a boot bag and a football!
 
1finny said:
Going through some old stuff the other day
A signed Phil Lynott poetry book - from Brian Anderson's Tees Rock show (for the old uns)
A signed framed black and white pic of Ayresome from Bernie and Ali - when they used to have a caller of the week.

yes, I know, before you start - it must have been a fallow week :mad:
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Both sound great
 
Won a Cadburys short story contest at school - prize was a big box containing a lot of their product - I was 10 at the time and it seemed like chocolate for weeks, I'm pretty sure my dad helped himself when I was abed.

School chess competition at 15

Table tennis junior winner at a youth club also at 15/16

Won a poetry competition and had it published in a local magazine when I was 23

Won the hand of my good lady wife against some stiff competition (weren't we all back then?) - all else pales.
 
A pair of Diadora boots after I sent in a photo to 'Shoot' of myself holding a shoot magazine outside the Stade de France.
 
A £100 and a trip to London after winning a Whizzer and Chips caption competition in 1985. My first taste of a win.

A few years ago I used to enter a lot of online competitions. Endless books, DVDs and tickets. Also won a drill, set of crockery?! and a full set of football kits.
 
Not me, but my son was one of the winners of the Blue Peter competition to present the English proposal for the 2006 World Cup at FIFA in Zurich. He did, of course, need a chaperon......
 
Feck all, I'm being serious. Never won more than £10 on the lottery, haven't bet on the gg's since a run of several years where my annual national pick died. Never won anything in any competition I've entered either.
I wouldn't say I'm unlucky, more like me and luck have never bumped into each other :)
 
At Glastonbury 2004 listening to Worthy FM and rang up and won a signed copy of Paul McCartney’s autobiography. He was headlining that year. This will increase in value when he eventually pegs it.
 
Malaguena said:
Mate, you really can't leave that one hanging there without an explanation :oops:
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Many moons ago i was a member of a youth organisation, we were pretty outdoorsy as a group. Another county ran a competition in the moors near Whitby over an Easter Weekend based on the Dracula story.

It rained all weekend and some of the other groups were badly prepared, the organisers also made a mess of it with not enough food, poor organisation.

It was basically a hunt and pursuit type thing and you were scored points. We were really critical of the organisers having run loads of outdoor weekends and two weeks camps etc. We offered to help but were rebuffed and decided to just d*ck around, we came last in the point scoring.

The finale was an assault on Mulsgrave Castle, those with the best points set off first and we set off last. We decided to just peg it down into the valley and back up and over the walls of the castle. We were the only team to evade the “vampires” got into the castle where we won the coffin.

The bloke running it had got it from an undertakers that had burned down and refurbished it to look really gothic.

He was gutted we won, drank too much in the pub, decided it would be clever to drive his car back to the campsite and ended up in a ditch.

Ended up getting sacked from his role in the organisation and the police were involved.

Was a fun weekend, the coffin is still in the HQ attic in Boro as far as I know, I should go and claim it one day!
 
Me and the missus did a corporate day at the match against Southampton a few years ago for our wedding anniversary. Entered the raffle and won a framed and signed print of Rolando Ugolini, which was presented by Alan Peacock. We won the game as well so a good day all round. I had the print hung in the garage until I found out that it was by Piers Rayner and unsigned prints were selling for north of 100 quid; so now it’s hung in the spare room. 👍
 
Wiseman_Vaughn said:
I won 2 tickets to the movie "Half a sixpence" in the gazettes painting competition - 1967 :cool:
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Junior & Senior club champion at my golf club
Probably my proudest achievements in winning something
At 14 years old though, did a sneaky £1 treble for three horse racing outsiders (that my uncle put on for me) all on live the TV that same day! (Newmarket I think)
All came in as winners. Never forget it ; won £114 in 83’.
I’ve always been lucky....lottery is next 👍☝️
 
I won two goldfish at the Hutton Rudby pantomime. one called Kipperlugs and other Herringbone. That was the pinnacle of my success and gave up competing afterwards
 
2 pairs of tickets for each day of the Cheltenham festival about 6 year ago.
Won it through The Sun newspaper. My mates already had tickets for the Wednesday so I sold every other pair online and went with them, it paid for my flights over and beer 👍🏻
 
Only 2 things.

1. A Boro Shirt signed by Aitor Karanka from Cardiff City when I retweeted them saying any Boro fans want to win this after we had beaten them 1-0 with a goal from Kike.

2. At a fundraising do with a huge number of prizes, someone on your table had to pull out three raffle tickets, all seemed fair and good until our table when my mum pulled out a family photo shoot and canvases for myself and partner and a spa weekend break for two for her single best friend (so guess who’d be going with her). Felt so embarrassed with all the shouts of “fix” from around the room but it was genuinely above board.
 
Tickets for Hartlepool v Luton on Good Friday 1967,Cloughy was Pools manager and Luton had a forward call Graham French who was later jailed for armed robbery if I remember correctly.
 
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