It's all lies (admits Sepp Blatter, on any date you'd care to nominate).
In a shocking (but perhaps not surprising) turn of events, Seppy stooped to an all new low in October when he hijacked a draft post by an honest and rule-abiding participant in this esteemed competition and manipulated it to his own ends.
This post (for it was this very missive) was about to highlight Seppy's illicit and unscrupulous conduct as he shifted the metaphorical goalposts mid season, altering targets and massaging statistics in a most unsportsmanlike fashion to suit his own nefarious ends.
What did the self-appointed Adjudicator General's meddling consist of, I hear you cry? He unilaterally decreed that the yearly average for Squince this season be recalculated northward, dropping the first year's estimated patch total and basing the target on just a 2-year rolling average.
OUTRAGEOUS!
The reason for this spontaneous mid-season recalibration? It seems he was finding it too hard to keep up. Net result: my target for 100% rose by almost two whole species, from 125.33 or some such to 127.
So where does that leave us? Down, indeed, but not quite out... yet.
Despite a busted ankle (which made scouring the patch nigh impossible over the entire autumn), Yellow-browed Warbler was a welcome addition to the year-list over the last month. Add the Gadwall and a flock of fly-over Skylarks from Sunday and my new (artificially suppressed) percentile has tottered up to 102.36%. So still in front... just, despite Seppy's cheating.
Roll on the Ducks, Gulls and Waders. Yippeeeeeee!
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