So the Germans have chosen their song and people are automatically saying that it will come last and they could do a last place triple. Come on, it's not that bad. But it got me thinking and pulling information.

(Apologies for the chart)

Norway is still the undisputed champion of coming last in Eurovision. They are well and truly two ahead of the next place countries, Finland and Germany.

There have been several occasions where the same country has come last two years in a row; Germany has had it on three occasions without proceeding to a third on any of them. Norway has never experienced this, but one time each for Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands and Malta.

Finally, nil point. The King of the Nil point is in fact Austria having taken no points in 1962, 1984, 1988, 1991 and most recently on home soil in 2015. Norway takes second place with four occurrences, and Finland and Germany come after that with three.

There are a few other oddities for your consideration;

The Dutch have not been last since 1968.

The UK have been last five times since 2003.

The two seven time victors Ireland and Sweden have both been last on two occasions each.

It took 58 years for France to gain their first last place and has not seen one since.

Well thanks Europe, that was absolutely savage. Not one single solitary point from the judges or the audiences. Ouch.

I honestly thought our song this year was a solid mid-ranking effort. I think we’d be better off not paying our way into the finals and taking our chances in the qualifying rounds from now on. Getting knocked out in the semi-finals every year has got to be better than the international humiliation of another bruising nil point result.