Contributed by South Stake
Luck is an element of any sport and croquet is no different. Strong skills can be sometimes outfoxed by the unexpected, the extraordinary, and the random intervention of Martians.
Not long ago, South Stake ran a hoop from 30 yards out. Cruelly, no-one else recognised that as skill. South Stake knows what it is to be unappreciated, unrecognised, even ridiculed.
Similarly, In...