ANDY ABRAHAM remained upbeat despite coming last in this year's Eurovision Song Contest.

The Enfield singer was left propping up the scoreboard in Saturday's contest despite a confident performance of his current single Even If in Serbia.

The former binman received just two endorsements - getting eight points from Ireland and six from San Marino - to place joint last with Poland and Germany on 14 points.

However, the other two countries were officially placed higher as their top scores in a single round were higher.

Abraham told the BBC after the contest: "The performance was as good as we could have done it. The feeling was great - the people in the audience loved it."

Although Abraham dismissed the fact that he sang second on the night in the BBC televised show as one reason for him failing, he did have words to say about the tactical voting which blights the contest every year.

The 43-year-old said: "It's very easy to pick a country that's going to give another country 12 points. It's really sad.

"It was talked about beforehand and I decided I was going to dismiss it, but it's very difficult when it is going on in your face."

Veteran Eurovision presenter Sir Terry Wogan was much more scatching of the tactical voting in the contest which was won by Russia on 272 points, even saying that it may cause him to give up his commentating role in the future.

The usually genial Irishman, who has presented the contest on the BBC since 1970, said: "Andy Abraham gave, I think, the performance of his life with a song that certainly deserved far more points than it got.

"When you look at the points that Spain got, that Bosnia-Herzegovina got - some really ridiculous songs."