A is for………
A is a good place to start this alphabetical guide to refreshment for the Poloholic and it also stands for abstention. Just thought I would get the worst bit out of the way first! If you are serious about your polo career and wish to make sure that you are bright eyed and busy tailed every morning of the week then abstention is perhaps the path to follow. I do have to say,, however that you will be missing out on what the Kiwis, for example, reckon is 90% of the game. Namely “having a few beers afterwards and telling lies to your friends”. Not literally, of course, figuratively. How well they played, how well their ponies went, what a great goal they scored, all the things that you need to tell them so that they get to the most important bit…telling you how good you are/were. Do not make the mistake of just walking into the bar and telling everyone that you are a legend such as never before seen. This blatant self-promotion just proves counter-productive, what you need is others promoting you or who you can say are, at very least. Then the spin starts to kick in and the legend to grow. None of this is going to happen if you sit at home nibbling on a couple of lettuce leaves and sipping herbal tea. You need to get among the people, eat a bit of half cooked meat and wash it down with something that will dilute the grease a bit. Polo is the sport where the after-party can be better attended that the game itself. It IS the sport of the after-party and I can almost claim to have invented them. So follow me on my journey and see where you stand in the all-time rankings. Are you beer-monster or shandy-pants, by the time the end of the alphabet is reached you will have a good idea? If your power of reasoning has gone by then or you are too trashed to care you can always start again at AA. (Not to do with cars you idiot, aa help group for the over-imbibed!)