The Offside King by Foxymoron

 An interesting quiz question is "who was known as the offside king?" Clearly it relates to football and the answer is Sergio Aguero, the prolific Manchester City striker.  He was offside the most times in the Premiership - around half the time he was in the opposing box. That was good value for his team, of course, as in the other half of the time he scored, as in the famous goal at the end of the 2012 season. AGUERRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ...

The chances of a king being offside in bridge is about 50%. Jill Shortman had some "king-guessing" to do on the following hand from the Woodberry duplicate:

Roly and Jill reached a reasonable 6H by West after the start 1S-2H and North, your scribe, found the most testing lead of a diamond to the queen and ace. Without the diamond lead, you would cash the ace of hearts and then take the spade finesse after giving up a heart. 

I would lead the queen of hearts from West against most players, and if North does not cover, I would rise. As Zia famously says in his new book, "If they don't cover, they don't have it." Of course, North should reason that his partner does not have Tx in hearts, and not cover from Kx, but people don't. 

The correct technical line is the one Jill chose. To take the heart finesse. Two down was the result and virtue had to be its own reward. Someone with far more classical knowledge than I corrected me when I claimed this expression derived from Cicero, whereas it appears in works by the poet Ovid.