Disappointing that he has been let go by the guardian, who want to concentrate less on horse racing. Always struck me as one of the decent ones out there.
Disappointing that he has been let go by the guardian, who want to concentrate less on horse racing. Always struck me as one of the decent ones out there.
Just reading it on Twitter.
He was almost the last sane/insighftul/worthwhile mainstream print racing-journalist out there.
All that’s left is Millington and his coterie of graduate wankers and school-children, who’d pass-out with a fuc*king nose-bleed if they ever had a fiver Yankee on.
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"Beat the price and lose. It's what we do".
SlimChance, March 2018
He will have his own podcast soon
Some people say he’s the best since Arkle and that’s certainly true when you look at what he’s done
Excellent writer, he won't be away for long.
Disappointing news indeed. One of the few proper journalists still covering racing.
The Guardian has far more important things to be writing about like the 56 genders...
an capall (28th February 2021), Len Madeiros (27th February 2021), Slim (27th February 2021)
I think this would have been a bigger deal 15 years ago. You know when you're driving to work in the morning and always pass old fellas walking to the corner shop for their newspaper? This is the last generation, the baby boomers, who will do that. Jumps racing might be slowly dying but it will still outlive newspapers.
Its disappointing because as he was writing for a non racing publication he could write about things you wouldn't be able or allowed cover in a racing publication, Sheikh Mo being the obvious example
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Sorry that your thread was hijacked, Chris Cook. But being a proper journalist you probably appreciate the irony of it being taken over by a big news story .
"The owls are not what they seem"
As long as they let him write and not just become another silent promoter of (insert preferred betting firm here..................).
"And still they gazed and still the wonder grew. That one small head could carry all he knew.
And that small head knew that Impaire Et Passe would win the Champion Hurdle."