Casablanca Arena Update – Week 5

I’m just not getting it. Sorry and all, but I have been a correspondent at the arena for a good few years now, and I had always thought that this was supposed to be entertainment? Thrills and tension as warriors battled it out on the sands, with death and glory as the prize?

So – what is it we’re getting with Mathilda? This week I had trouble working out whether I was in a science fiction story or somehow had fallen down the rabbit hole into Alice in Wonderland, because my first thought was ‘blink and you missed it’ and my second thought was the immortal phrase ‘off with his head’.

I have no idea where she came from – presumably she was somewhere in the ground at the point the president hit the gong,  but within seconds there was the other guy’s head describing an arc, and a fountain of arterial blood spurting from the neck. It took the body longer to fall over than the fight had lasted.

Betting has fallen off markedly on Mathilda’s fights. Until some owner comes up with an opponent who can actually list a blade to her, fighting Mathilda! is going to continue to be a dead loss.