Someone at The Guardian loves Winny Puhh

In all the journalistic knee-jerk reactions, tired cliches, and urban myth that I expect from the UK mainstream media in any coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest, it always surprises me to see when a journalist actually gets the Contest, and little hints pop up in their writing that say to me they are a closet fan.

Step forward Stuart Heritage of The Guardian… I think you are one of us…

It remains to be seen whether Bonnie Tyler can match – or even beat – Englebert Humperdinck’s result, but she’s already got one thing going for her. My tip to win Eurovision, Estonia’s genuinely terrifying banjo-Slipknot act Winny Puhh, have already been knocked out of their national competition. This surely clears the way for Bonnie Tyler to reach the giddy heights of the low 20s come Eurovision night. And if that works, the UK’s entry tactic will have been validated.

Yes the snark is there, yes the ‘we’ll do rubbish’ is there, but the article is factually correct, it fits in with what actually happens at Eurovision, and someone tasked with writing a bog-standard Eurovision article on Bonnie Tyler by 1pm is not going to sneak in a reference to ‘Meiecundimees üks Korsakov läks eile Lätti’ by chance.