South-West strategy fail

Back to work after the long weekend, and ye gods my corporate life is tedious.

A Brass re-match tonight. Thought I had this one in the bag. My robust network of coal, iron, beer and 2 cotton mills in Worcester set me up for a huge pay out. Trouble was, my brilliant wife, recognising my monopoly of the SW, expanded rapidly north to the potteries and consolidated her railway network around Birmingham. I lost. Big time.