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Cheating alleged after men’s world conker champion found with steel chestnut | Sport
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2024
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They way it was said, I swore there was gonna be a mob lynching. Got run out of town and sued.
“Allegations of foul play have been received that somehow King Conker swapped his real conker for the metal one later found in his pocket.
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There are also suggestions that King Conker had marked the strings of harder nuts. We can confirm he was involved in drilling and lacing the nuts before the event.
The metal conker is suspicious, however to them start going around and making other random claims makes you sound like a sore loser.
He's about to have a real bad fur day
No scandal will top this in 2024. We have peaked.
That’s just not cricket!
That's nuts!
You'd need steel chestnuts to even attempt such a thing!
An absolute scandal which has rocked the Conkers World Championship to its core. It will be a long time before it can ever recover from this.
He's been waiting longer than ash to win but he became team rocket to do it