In the pot

My hat is off to sales engineer Matt Ford and his buddy Chris Marchant who raised money for a good cause last month with a gruelling and unusual record breaking stunt.

Marchant and Ford, who works for authentication vendor Signify, arrived at Cambridge's Grafton Shopping Centre on 17 September with the intention of completing the longest pool match ever played. Some 55 hours and 40 seconds later, the pair had smashed the existing mark by more than an hour and a half.

Sounds impressive, but they've obviously never played our Gordon. Seasons have come and gone while that boy lines up a pot.