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I watched the BBC news programme this morning from 8-20 until it finished at 10.
Not once was horse raciing or the King George mentioned even the sports slots did not even mention it.
Just shows what they think of horse racing.Are you really that surprised? I noticed that Radio 5 didn’t broadcast the July Cup two weeks ago. Today the BBC was showing athletics and motor racing they will always give more publicity to their own.
I will lose £50/100 betting horses on many days and accept my lot but the license fee really grates with me, I hardly ever watch the BBC for anything these days and when I do it’s all left wing nonsense.
The sooner these parasites get in the real world, without a nation handout earning a living the better….Graham Norton Gary Lineker.., the list is endless.
To borrow a saying from one of the very few good BBC shows Ricky Tomlinson (The Royals) – National Treasure MY ASS.And what would BBC coverage have entailed…probably Cornelius Lysaght relaying news at least three hours old, as usual. I don’t think the bloke has expressed an opinion in the 123 years he’s covered the sport.
I’d be switching that off.
No loss.
I don’t think the bloke has expressed an opinion in the 123 years he’s covered the sport.
Is it only 123 years? It seems much longer than that.
For far too long, racing has been a dumping ground for ex-public school types who can’t get a job anywhere else.
It never ceases to amaze me the ignorance and indifference of some, if not most, BBC sports presenters to racing. I recall, I think last year, a BBC radio sports person describing the Cesarewitch as the “Caesar Which”. For a non-sports reporter, maybe excusable, but not for someone presumably knowledgeable about sport. Long gone are the days when the BBC showed remotely much interest in the sport. I can’t ever believe it will return to BBC TV. One almost longs at times for the Julian Wilson era. He may have irritated but he knew his stuff, and the coverage had a certain distinction to it.
When I was a young kid I used to think Julian Wilson was brilliant.
But like so many things in life, the older you get, the more you find out about your idols, the more you find they have feet of clay.
Julian Wilson was opinionated and occasionally witty – “Brod Munro Wilson is playing the violin!” he once opined about said jockey’s finish in the Foxhunters at Cheltenham.
But he wasn’t half up his own backside.
Plus – I am no great fan of Clare Balding either but I like to think I’ve got a bit more quality than to send in anonymous letters from a Mr R Sole to ridicule her on live TV.
I think I know who was being the real R Sole that day.
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