Allow me to reveal a little something about myself. No team that I support has ever won any major Championship during the time that I have supported them.

To illustrate:
Mayo: Last All-Ireland victory was in 1951, fifteen years before I was born.

Irish Rugby Team: Last won the Championship in 1985, but I wasn't really following rugby then, so I never really noticed it. Triple Crowns don't count.

Irish Football Team: Qualified for European Championship in 1988, and the World Cups of 1990, 1994 and 2002, but even though it felt like it at the time, they never actually won any of these.

QPR: Last bit of silverware to make it to the trophy room cabinet at Loftus Road was the League Cup in 1967, I think.

Munster: OK, they won the Celtic League in 2003 and the Celtic Cup in 2005, but it's not the Heineken Cup, is it?

I am hoping that this awful record will finally be broken on 20 May 2006, with Munster at last lifting the Heineken Cup in Cardiff. Unfortunately, I won't be there. The likelihood is that I won't see the game live at all, as I will be travelling back from Southern Spain.

On the other hand, maybe that's a good thing, and the jinx won't work.