"The past six months have seen considerable progress at the club, even though it has been somewhat harder to keep up standards since our French and Dutch members voted not to endorse the proposed new articles of association last year. Partly because of this, the agenda is disappointingly thin for this week's full board meeting, chaired by our Austrian colleague (Sa-chertorte will be served). The club's main function is to provide level playing fields on which members can compete against each other in friendly matches and occasionally field teams to take on clubs elsewhere in the world. We suffered our tenth successive defeat in our yearly attempt to wrest the Lisbon Cup back from our friends at the American Capitalist Association. Our 15-0 thrashing at the hands of the Mandarin Traders' Club has led to demands for withdrawal from this fixture (Mr Mandelson has been asked to look into complaints of unfair competition). But at home, our Nordic members' style of play was particularly admired.
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