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Tiger Roll always has the last laugh - he has made some fool out of me anyway

So, Benjamin, you told us that by failing to prepare we are preparing to fail. But, Mr Franklin, what if you prepare for failure and that preparation comes to nothing? You never prepared us for that, did you?

The reason I ask is because I've been preparing something for quite a while now and, to be quite frank with you, I'm failing to understand why I began preparing anything at all.

It started way back in November 2019 when Eddie O'Leary rang to say Tiger Roll had a chip removed from a joint and would miss a few months. The first draft of the tribute was scribbled together then. I was convinced we would never see him again, as were a lot of you.

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