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There may be mangled vowels but his enunciation is clear to my ears ( attuned to the south east Wales valleys accent more than anything).
To me, despite the strong accent, he annunciates very clearly. I have no problem with understanding him at all.
Drone
Your plea to have me banned has fallen on
deaf ears…
Blackbeard to conquer the World
I very rarely watch C4’s racing coverage so I don’t really mind Mick Fitzgerald being on there. I was well miffed last week though when he turned up on ATR’s Sunday Forum programme which in actual fact wasn’t a Sunday Forum in anything but name – it was an Irish racing preview programme. I turned it off after approx. 5 minutes and sulked for about two hours.
Mick Fitz is truly awful on TV, he couldn’t tip rubbish and has a voice that just grates on you.
Gordon Brown (the racing pundit, definitely not the politician) has a most pleasant, musical Scottish twang;
This he has. The loveliest Scottish accent in racing, however, was surely Len Lungo’s – our gain was audiobook publishers’ loss. Then again, for all I know that’s what he might have jacked in racing to pursue a career in…
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
Gordon Brown (the racing pundit, definitely not the politician) has a most pleasant, musical Scottish twang;
This he has. The loveliest Scottish accent in racing, however, was surely Len Lungo’s – our gain was audiobook publishers’ loss. Then again, for all I know that’s what he might have jacked in racing to pursue a career in…
gc
Ah yes, I do remember Lenny saying that one of his horses was "on top of the wurrald" and he’d entered him in the "Wurrald Hurdle".
Mike
Thanks for that, Ricky.
Typical ….I tell you what I think of your bookies man and you laugh it off , dont for heavens sake express
your opinion
whatever you do
Bloody imposter…the real Id would have replied back telling me where to get off
Clones infesting this place , bookies advocates one and all
sigh
imo
Drone dear Boy ,,,,getting Nathan banned is like getting Ginger to not have the last word ….getting Stilvi to be pleasant (for even one day )….and for the lady who wears a towel ..to rubbish any part of racing …..
simply put it aint gonna happen Good try though
I’ll happily rubbish Big Mac, but fortunately I don’t have to any more. I’m also prepared to moan about crap pronunciation and crap spelling re horse’s names……admittedly irrelevant, and Des Scahill. Aside from that, I’m a happy bunny
For the record, I’m more often than not to be found in a onesie these days, rather than a towel….
The loveliest Scottish accent in racing, however, was surely Len Lungo’s – our gain was audiobook publishers’ loss. Then again, for all I know that’s what he might have jacked in racing to pursue a career in…
His interviews were always a joy: last I heard he was being employed by The Times as a cryptic-crossword setter with the added problem that all solutions are in, and only in, Lowland Scots
Did you celebrate Burns’ Night GC?
The nicest Scottish accent I ever came across was from a waiter in an Inverness hotel I stayed at circa 1976 – ‘yourrrr kipperrrrs have been cookkkked to orderrrrr sirrrr’ – no extra charge for the saliva garnish
LOL Drone!
No Burns’ Night celebrations as such, though as chance would have it I did find a bottle of Orkney Brewery
Dragonhead
Stout in the cellar head that evening and made short work of that.
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
Drone dear Boy ,,,,getting Nathan banned is like getting Ginger to not have the last word ….getting Stilvi to be pleasant (for even one day )….and for the lady who wears a towel ..to rubbish any part of racing …..
simply put it aint gonna happen Good try though
You on the other hand Ricky are 15/8 not to survive the year.
Blackbeard to conquer the World
The loveliest Scottish accent in racing, however, was surely Len Lungo’s – our gain was audiobook publishers’ loss. Then again, for all I know that’s what he might have jacked in racing to pursue a career in…
His interviews were always a joy: last I heard he was being employed by The Times as a cryptic-crossword setter with the added problem that all solutions are in, and only in, Lowland Scots
Did you celebrate Burns’ Night GC?
The nicest Scottish accent I ever came across was from a waiter in an Inverness hotel I stayed at circa 1976 – ‘yourrrr kipperrrrs have been cookkkked to orderrrrr sirrrr’ – no extra charge for the saliva garnish
A guy I worked with at Dounreay had visited a hotel out in the wilds of Northern Scotland, a small place called Forsinard. He took great delight, when asking the owner how many tourists were visiting the area these days, in hearing the reply:-
"Fewerrrr and fewerrrr, tourrrrists in Forrrrrsinarrrd, everrrrrry yearrrrrrr laddie"
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
It’s not his accent that’s a problem, his lack of willingness to give an actual opinion and just sit on the fence.
….15/8 is way too short 
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