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You can slam the IT all you like, but yesterday that paper was worth every penny. It seems to have improved. The writing, the density of the features, the layout.
Witness Sir Clement Freud’s article on retired greyhounds. Absolutely magnificent. In the fourth paragraph of the second column, he recounts a time when he’s asked about which era he would have liked to have lived in.
"I went for the mythical Greek. It was the time of the lotus eaters, when inhabitants of the shifting sandbanks near Carthage could suck at fruit whose roots drew water from the underworld, causing forgetfulness of the past as eliminating all concept of the future"
He uses this beautifully drawn paragraph to segue into a disastrous day at Aintree which expressed in three paragraphs what most writers of loser lit couldn’t express in ten.
There was a two page article on poker (an interview with Mark Wallis, the top greyhound trainer who plays poker at a high level), and a magnificent Trading Post to which our own TDK contributed a 33/1 winner. The football opinion is controversial and hard hitting. I’ve not brought the paper for ages (not really been betting much), but I’ll definitely be getting it again as I move away from computer betting to real life stuff.
Anyone agree that it’s improved? Or do you all still use the RP site?
I always read clement Freud column he always finishes with a joke a couple of which i’ve used meself down the pub !
I love poker and found the spread a great read bout time they justified their £1.70 price or do you think it will go up now its worth reading as well as studying
Not sure about the paper overall being much improved, but I have found James Pyman’s articles particularly well-researched and thought-provoking of late.
I’ve bought it almost every day since it was launched and will continue to do so. It gets a lot of knocking but I’d be lost without it and even more without the website.
Freud and Tony Morris (does he still write for them?) are/were good enough excuses to buy the rag, though I haven’t bothered for some years now
The website despite its recent upgrade glitches remains an excellent
free
resource and since becoming the proud owner of a dual-core blah blah… PC I’ve found it quick to navigate, if design-wise certainly no improvement on the old site
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