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McCoy apparently didn’t make the final ten nominations, and appeared to thoroughly not give a sh*it when interviewed on the subject of SPOTY.
Top man.
he’s adjusted from the routine of the regular on course punter, to working more from home, making use of the opportunities provided by the Internet and live TV pictures, but can still be seen on the racecourses in the South and Midlands.
I do like the idea
of a doppelganger
lifting the title
and it might even
be worth investing
in a new sharp screen
over Xmas
to get a closer look
at the stiching
on the anorakDoppelganger
sounds slightly sinister
but I’m right handed
so do not qualifyPerhaps my other double
is sizing up the prize
with his stringBut one thing true
of all the AP tribe
is the knowledge that
a TRF award is worth
ten from the BBC(the anorak will be on view at Hereford tomorrow and the sandpit on Saturday)
AP
The problem our sport has with this award is that our stars aren’t the jockeys – it is the horses.
However, whenever people have voted for Red Rum or Desert Orchid, the votes were disregarded by the BBC, who made up the rules.
Couldn’t give a toss about McCoy edit: , or about any other jockey.
the anorak will be on view at … the sandpit on Saturday
How do you go against the crowd when the crowd comprises only yourself?
A surefire recipe to be racked by self doubt.
Glenn, there’ll be plenty of anoraks on show Saturday. Weekend crowds at the sandpit compare well with other similar class courses.
My mistake. I assumed he was referring to the sandpit of shame rather than the Wolver Wild West.
My advice: keep an eye on the market movers there – the psychic ability of those leapfrogging on horses owned by those found guilty of laying their own, and then let off to carry on, has to be seen to be believed.
Glenn, they’re running on the fibresand at Southwell for the next two Saturdays.
Incidentally, I never refer to the other artificial tracks as sandpits because I ran round Southwell’s fibresand oval early one morning (when no-one was looking), and the surface is just like the deep sand on Skeggy beach. I could scarcely get round; after a circuit my legs had gone, like jelly they were. Ergo, you need a right tank of an animal to get round Southwell; pins like a prop forward and and a pole dancer’s backside. Wolver is a skating rink for for Guides by comparison.
Anyroad, AP for Prime Minister is my considered opinion.
The problem our sport has with this award is that our stars aren’t the jockeys – it is the horses.
A truism indeed
The car’s the star too but Buttons will go to the ball and win his longed-for Cinderella
Pumpkins at midnight
Save for the shrugs of a cuckolded Prince
The doppelganger Potts
gets my vote and
would make an excellent
prime minister having tasted
twenty years of defeat
and risen like a phoenix
through a lake
of torn pink tickets
to the cheers of the betting electorate.Apart from Churchill
who fought convincingly through the
Dardanelles disaster
the latest mob are
all silver spoon addicts
with their *rses
postured ridiculously
high off the groundThere is very little chance of the BBC taking the risk of someone winning or placing whose sport is not one they’ve either spent zillions getting the rights for, or are planning to do so.
Coincidentally, yet another story about BBC cheating broke today, this time it’s their programme-makers posing as members of the public "buying" things on reality shows.
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Are the BBC planning to increase their coverage of gymnastics and diving, Venusian?
If Beth Tweddle, Tom Daley, Philips Idowu and Ryan Giggs are leading lights in terms of personality, British sport really is in trouble. And why include Andrew Strauss? Aside from the fact that Graeme Swann and, on occasion, Stuart Broad, stood out above him against Australia, the Ashes-winning side are cast-iron certainties for Team of the Year. How likely is Strauss to also capture the individual honour?
By not recognising the sporting achievement and contribution of the likes of Tony McCoy, Phil Taylor, Steven Gerrard (again nominated for World Player of the Year, unlike Giggs whose nomination is based solely on his age), Kevin Sinfield and countless others, the BBC shows itself to be as ignorant as it is (apparently) corrupt.
It’s only a matter of time before Jonathan Ross wins it.
If SPOTY wasn’t such a farce, Phillips Idowu would win it by a whole 45cm at least.
I don’t see anyone else with a better profile for a potential winner; he’s even got red hair for christs sake! How much more personality do you want?!
As has been said – AP would have to go through the card at the festival and then win the National to have a shout, and rightly so imo.
Didn’t moustachioed pap-pap jockey Nigel Mansell win SPOTY once despite, famously, having no discernible personality?
Knowing the way the BBC works, I think AP will get the Lifetime Achievement Award in the next year or so as a consolation prize.
Surely nobody seriously believes that farcical though it may or may not be that SPOTY has anything to do with the personalities of the people that win it?
SPOTY started about 50 years ago and surely calling the winner ‘personality’ was non sexist speak at the time to avoid calling it either sportsman or sportswoman of the year.
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