Well, I have a bit of humble pie to eat. The UK came fifth. I still don’t think the song deserved it, but I have to admit that she did sing it very well, and in our own scoring we put it joint seventh with Denmark.
We all knew that Norway was going to win it – we said that when we first heard the song four months ago, before he’d even won his place in the semis and the country was still dithering over whether or not to pick him. On the night, though, we actually put the Ukraine slightly ahead of him, but Europe had them miles apart, with Norway storming home with five times the number of points the Ukraine garnered. Shame.
I’m so glad Iceland came second. It was a great song brilliantly sung and I wouldn’t have been sad to see it win.
| Country | Our points |
Our placing |
Actual points |
Position |
| Ukraine | 114 | 1 | 76 | 12 |
| Norway | 110 | 2 | 387 | 1 |
| Estonia | 97 | 3 | 129 | 6 |
| Iceland | 94 | 4 | 218 | 2 |
| Sweden | 91 | 5 | 33 | 21 |
| Finland | 88 | 6 | 22 | 25 |
| Denmark | 87 | 7= | 74 | 13 |
| UK | 87 | 7= | 173 | 5 |
| France | 77 | 9 | 107 | 8 |
| Armenia | 75 | 10 | 92 | 10 |
| Turkey | 72 | 11 | 177 | 4 |
| Moldova | 69 | 12 | 69 | 14 |
| Greece | 63 | 13 | 120 | 7 |
| Romania | 58 | 14 | 40 | 19 |
| Lithuania | 57 | 15= | 23 | 23 |
| Spain | 57 | 15= | 23 | 24 |
| Albania | 56 | 17 | 48 | 17 |
| Israel | 52 | 18 | 53 | 16 |
| Bosnia | 50 | 19 | 106 | 9 |
| Malta | 49 | 20 | 31 | 22 |
| Azerbeijahn | 48 | 21 | 207 | 3 |
| Germany | 47 | 22 | 35 | 20 |
| Croatia | 45 | 23 | 45 | 18 |
| Russia | 40 | 24 | 91 | 11 |
| Portugal | 38 | 25 | 57 | 15 |
Of the above points, ours are out of a possible total of 130 for each act, and the actual points are out of a possible total of 504.
We spent it at Mark’s, as we do every year – 13 of us crammed into one room to score and sing along. His poor neighbours. It’s only a terrace. After that, the night slipped into watching old TV, embarrassing Bill with old clips of him presenting That’s Life in his green velour suit, and putting on the 2006 preview DVDs, which are always good for a sing-along.
The only slight downer was the exhaust falling off the car on the way back, still a long way from home. We had no choice but to carry on, with it dragging on the floor, scattering little orange sparks like a shuttle on re-entry all the way back, with every car that passed slowing down to point out what we already knew.
Quite hoarse on Sunday morning.
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