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00:00Clare requires 40.

00:07Yes, sir!

00:30Now then, today, the king of the knotted knucklers,

00:39the atlas of the indoor league arm-wrestling rostrum,

00:42will be crowned.

00:43Sixteen of the strongest limbs in the land

00:45have gone through blood, sweat, jeers,

00:48and we've now reached the final stages.

00:50The pick of Britain's bulging biceps

00:52will be taking the strain for 100 quid and a gold medal.

00:55So let's get eyeball to eyeball

00:58with the last ferocious four.

01:00First, we have Mark Sinclair Scott,

01:02an ex-Arovian grouse-shooting male model on the right here.

01:06He's out to pose problems for Big Buster Whitney from the smoke.

01:10It's the first semi-final,

01:11and the best of three falls decided it.

01:16Remember, the winner of this one

01:18goes into the first semi-final.

01:21Mark Scott.

01:23I think, maybe, will take it off.

01:26Well, it can chew here as Whitney goes for the first one,

01:28and there it is.

01:291-0 to Whitney in the first round.

01:32But the first round is not over yet,

01:34so they don't change sides.

01:35Wait for the count.

01:38He's got worried about his left hand.

01:40I don't know why he's putting too much pressure on his trousers there.

01:42He should be behind his back, that left hand of his.

01:44Yes, he was caught.

01:47The referee spotted it.

01:49So Whitney now on the left.

01:50We're going for a 2-0 win.

01:52It wasn't quite there.

01:53I think it slipped.

01:54After a little toweling down,

02:09can we go ahead again without having to change the grip,

02:11as was changed in the quarter-final,

02:14because of the impossibility of continuing with that grip

02:17because of slip-ups.

02:18And all is up at Barstaff, but he couldn't do it,

02:22so Whitney the winner there in the first of the finalists.

02:27So Buster Whitney, who's only been arm-wrestling a couple of years,

02:30goes through to the final,

02:32beating the anti-post favourite, Mark Sinclair Scott.

02:35Next in action, Roy Conningale, another Londoner,

02:38and King Ben Boothman from Keithley in the waistcoat.

02:42I think that...

02:47I don't think he's going to take that.

02:49No, I don't think the referee's decided that's a fall at all.

02:51Wait for the 3-2-1 again.

02:52Wait for the 3-2-1.

02:53Yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:54Take grip.

02:55Back to the original grip, of course,

02:57the correct grip for this competition.

03:00And it's sold.

03:01Very fast indeed, Boothman, going over there.

03:05No sweat-fucking Ben.

03:06Now he's up against another tough type.

03:09Bill Brownlee from Leeds.

03:12Well, at the start of his fourth round tightbaker,

03:14and it's a four-minute round, this one.

03:22Brownlee put in everything he knows,

03:23but look how beautifully King Ben holds him up.

03:28Vintage stuff, and no fall either way

03:30after a ten-minute sheer slog.

03:32If we had a caber available,

03:34they could toss that to decide the winners,

03:36but with no bigger than a ten-pence piece.

03:39Heads it's King Ben,

03:40tails it's Bill Brownlee.

03:42Edge it is,

03:43so King Ben Boothman goes through.

03:45Now, while they're manipulating their muscles for the final,

03:49let's go over to table football,

03:51the game which is played at international level

03:53all the way from Scotland to Turkey.

03:55Amir Marifa,

03:56and Creighton Ambos on the right

03:59are up against Roger Guttridge and Theo Goodall.

04:02First to score six goals is the winner,

04:04and Keith Macklin's doing the chat.

04:06And these are the Dorset pair,

04:08Guttridge and Goodall,

04:10products of college football also.

04:12Moving them all into the back line for a shot.

04:14And this is Ambos and Marifa in possession in their back line.

04:18At the moment,

04:19no pattern able to emerge,

04:21but they've moved it up into the middle,

04:23neither side getting a grip,

04:25either on their wrists or on the game at the moment.

04:29Goodall and Guttridge, of course,

04:30one down.

04:30That's always a bit of a blow

04:31to have a goal conceded right in the first minute.

04:34Then they're going to have to hit back.

04:35But this is Ambos and Marifa,

04:36again trying one from the back line,

04:38generating tremendous power from the back.

04:40Enormous flick of the wrist there.

04:44At the moment,

04:44power rather in the van

04:47with combined table football

04:50conspicuous by its absence.

04:52And that was a pretty poor shot.

04:53The ball must be kept down.

04:54That was flicked over the top.

04:56Now, again, Ambos and Marifa,

04:57but not such a good shot.

04:59One of the great techniques of this game

05:00is to swerve the ball past defence

05:02and into the goal.

05:04And that was the most remarkable goal.

05:05One goal.

05:06That was a shot by Ambos and Marifa,

05:07a really lucky one,

05:08which came flying back virtually

05:09from the goalkeeper

05:10and into the net at the other end.

05:11So that's 1-1.

05:13So a lucky comeback

05:13for Goodall and Gutteridge.

05:16But still, it's Ambos and Marifa.

05:17It was certainly favourites

05:18for this particular round.

05:20But it's 1-1.

05:22And...

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