Alright all. I'm tincan, 35 and live just outside Manchester. Main sporting passion is football. I'm a Man United supporter - Used to have a season ticket but now watch with mates in pub and get my live football fix from FC United.
Really enjoy watching racing but am probably what's known as a mug punter. Lucky 15s to give me an interest which usually start off with me having a winner in the first leg, getting giddy and spending potential winnings in my head before watching the rest come home nowhere.
Found this forum as used to read the page on C4 teletext. Forgot all about it for years until having a bladdered discussion in pub a few months ago and teletext pages came up, in particular Bamboozle. My memory of the teletext page was seeing Irish Jock put up winner after winner of inside knowledge. Never got involved until he said he was putting one last one up to go out with a bang. Emptied my piggy bank and got on it at 16s after it was backed from 33s I think. Went all the way into about 4s...and came nowhere. Still remember it was called 'Gower' something. Learnt to tread a lot more carefully after that!
Really enjoy this forum as the opinions and level of detail given are very interesting for a novice like me to read and there are the odd tipsters who are very impressive (although I've not yet followed one in).
Cheers