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Now, what is it like to win the British Carpangling Championships?

Well, the two guys I've got in the studio today, Carl Palmer and Rob Burgess, no better

than most.

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And we've got a rather amazing trophy here as well, which has got your name on it?

Not quite. Good morning. Yeah, no, she'll get our name on it. I begin her next year. So, yeah, looking forward to seeing our names on there. But it's, yeah. You don't even trust yourself, Rob, to have this in your house, right? I don't. The little one and the dog combined would probably end up in 10 or 15 pieces. So yeah, it's held at my dad's and

whenever I visit sort of once every couple of weeks, it's nice to walk past it. Give it a little

shine. Yeah, it's just, you know what, you obviously, you just forget about it and you

walk in the living room. It's like, oh, bloody how we've done that. That's amazing. And I think

we were just looking at it. The first one was 1999, I think. So there's plenty of prestige there, isn't it? That trophy's been going around for a year, 23 years now. And some of the names on there, you know, apart from 2003, a bit of a wonky year. Is this Fairbrust and Clark? They've got lucky in the drawer, I think. No, everyone's names on there are just, you know, awesome anglers.

Between you two guys, tell me about what it means.

What does the British Cup championship mean in 2022?

That is the one.

You know, that doesn't get any better.

Any bigger, that is the one that keeps going every year.

There's competitions. Like the Erics, for instance, comes and goes.

That's lasted the test of time and the trophy's still going around.

And to win it is just, yeah, for us both, for all the match anglers out there, I'm sure.

That's the one you want in your trophy locker. You know, the check doesn't come into it. Honestly, it doesn't out there, I'm sure, that's the one. You're wanting your trophy locker.

You know, the check doesn't come into it.

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