Lets see how i did....
Spoilers at the bottom, if you haven't watched it yet.... Look away now.
1. UK will come middle of the board. Not near the top, but not bottom either.
Second bottom. X
2. There will be a stage invasion/ demonstration by Just Stop Oil, Extinction Rebellion or The Flat Earth Society
Nothing that i noticed X
3. The half time show will be hotbed of Liverpudlian talent… including Mel C, Paul McCartney, John Bishop, Sonia, and would have included Lily Savage if it wasn’t for Paul O’Gradys passing.
Sonia, 1 out of 5... and Paul O Grady does appear in the BBC's adverts for the programme X
4. The programme will mess up somehow…. Wrong camera, wrong microphone or wrong name of presenter.
Again, nothing i noticed X
5. Croatia try to be political and anti war, but end up in the news after not getting through the semi finals and starting a fight in a local pub.
Did get through, and no bar fight. X
6. Mae Muller, the UK entry goes way overboard with the stage production. Pyrotechnics, lasers, projections… just because she’s up last, and the BBC are using up their budget.
Nothing like that, but she did have trouble with a staircase... had to look at her feet to walk down it
7. BBC mess up again when the VT operator mixes up Latvian and Lucian and plays a short interview with some guy and his collection of vintage electrical equipment.
X
8. One country is disqualified when it is revealed their entry was written entirely by AI.
X, although you could be mistaken for thinking some of them were....
9. One performer will finish their song and say “thank you,
London!”
X... Someone (important) being interviewed beforehand did say 'England" was hosting.... should have said "UK"
10. The neighbourly voting that always causes controversy finally pushes graham Norton over the edge and he has a massive hissy fit.
X... although the usual greece/cyprus relationship wasn't there last night.
Ex winner from 2012, Loreen, won with the Finnish troll in second place.
Opening act shown Kate Middleton playing piano along to last years winners.
Some guy in audience waving the wrong "Po" around during Austria's performance.... (Tellytubby, not Edgar Allen)
Moldova's flute playing dwarf..... We sat trying to be politically correct in his description... avoiding the M word.... then my daughter says "he's only 50% loaded"....... I didnt teach her that!
The half time show had ex competitors singing songs linked to liverpool.... Including Dadi from Iceland singing Atomic Kitten's Whole Again.... (tedious link.... one of the Kittens is from liverpool and once entered for the UK in a previous girl group).... Israel's Netta doing Dead or Alive (Pete Burns was from liverpool) wearing inflatable Manga angel wings? Possibly?... and some woman splashing around in a paddling pool....Pool! oh... now i get it...
Then the "headliner" Sonia..... who came second in '93 to Ireland.
A cynic might suggest that Ukraine won last year, purely because of the war, and nothing to do with the song.
They might further suggest that the only reason UK came second, after years of abysmal scores, is because the 'fixers' knew Ukraine couldn't host and whoever came second would be highly likely to volunteer to host on their behalf... Who better than one of the Big Five money countries.
Next years host country will be Sweden, in the 50th anniversary year of ABBA winning with Waterloo. Also Swedish..... Its too much of a coincidence.... I predict the half time show next year will be mostly made up of ABBA's virtual concert
