NO.119
Varsity Winkies Festival – Nevin Pot:
Held on Sunday 22nd March 2015. In a
repeat of last year’s highly successful
tournament, 60 young OWs from the
universities and the recently employed,
but also including a team of ‘Vets’- i.e.
middle-aged men rather than animal
doctors- spent a glorious afternoon in the
Winchester sunshine playing IXs to an
exceptionally high standard. A brand new
cup – Nevin Pot, which had been
generously donated by David Fellowes was given its first airing and was awarded
by Michael Nevin himself in an
emotional speech: not only were the
Hopperite Team the winners, beating
Exeter in a nail-biting final 24-22 and
benefitting from the eight post busts of
James Essex, but the great man also
admitted that Win Co Fo was what he
had most enjoyed during the combined
total of 43 years he had s [