The Sulk House

[Ghost of Rob V]

Julian Wilson had one. We need one. A go-to place where one can reside for a while and rid the body and mind of niggling nuisances.

Today I broke the golden rule of betting and changed my mind on my selections. Now, here I sit … thinking of the couple of hundred quid that would’ve replenished my moth-eaten wallet.

*major sulk*

[BigG]

Condolences Rob, I’ve been there, I’m pretty sure we all have. It’s that
nagging why did I do it, why did I do it feeling that you just can’t get
rid of. It’ll pass when you clean up at Royal Ascot

[IanDavies]

I’m not sure wanting things Julian Wilson possessed is always the best of ideas.

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[Nathan Hughes]

Wilson was always sulking
apparently
before my time

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[gamble]

I am rather sensitive to ghosts especially if their middle name is Bonhote.

Julian David Bonhote Wilson was born on June 21, 1940 – the exact year when Auswitch came to be and quite incidentally he was the son of the Daily Mirror sportswriter Peter Wilson (known as “the man they can’t gag”). At Harrow, Julian was a contemporary of John McCririck, later to become the outre betting pundit for the Channel 4 racing team.

Julian Wilson only cared about rescuing his two year old ratings in a house fire – he said it quite barefacedly on the menace. Gamble meanwhile was choking in the sock drawer. This means Wilson had a rational outlook on life and good reason for him to take racing SERIOUSLY and look appropriately!
His downcast looks were appreciated by the majority of viewers who – let’s face it were 99% losers 😊

[gamble]

Jocky Wilson he wasn’t but Peter O knew how well he could throw a bloody good dart. Problem is his patrician aim often missed the target by a good country mile and like a boomerang his returning misses were likely to eat the perfectionist Julian up.

[gamble]

If I could, and this is highly unlikely, but if, and it’s a big if, but if I could bring any person back to life – it would not be Adolf no I’d go for Julian – he’d wake up next to house fire!

[gamble]

You’d have thought Wilson. being born after Beppy Boop and avoiding the awfulness of the big depression coupled with the worst ever dust bowl drought in America might have brought a smile to baby Julian’s lips..

O’Sullevan was at the birth !

[IanDavies]

“Wilson was always sulking
apparently
before my time”

Never met him, but did actually speak to him on the phone once circa 1990.

I was working on Grandstand on Grand National Day and my remit was to be the racing guy who watched the race in the studio and noted where all the horses departed and how for the post-race graphic.

Wilson phoned me to give me his notes on this from out at Becher’s Brook and very helpful – and polite, actually – he was too.

But I heard stories and, while I was no fan of Clare Balding, those “R Sole” emails Wilson sent in to make her look foolish in her early days on air had zero quality about them.

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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"

[He Didnt Like Ground]

To be fair to fall for such an obvious setup says more about Balding , it’s like the apprentice being sent for a tin of tartan paint or a bubble for the spirit level …… it’s a test not to fail

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[Purwell]

I got caught by being sent to the stores for a long weight!

I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highways

[Ghost of Rob V]

Around two decades ago, we had a trainee helping the maintenance team with a plumbing job. He got sent to the local hardware shop for 2 metres of fallopian tube.
He came back mortified.

[Landafar]

Purwell…”I got caught by being sent to the stores for a long weight!”
Shame they didnt do the double and request a tin of tartan paint. (said in jest, no offence meant).

[Ghost of Rob V]

BRADSELL! *massive sulk*

[Nathan Hughes]

Forget the Sulk House and get yourself down to the basement
Gamble is down there watching the races with the lads
will soon cheer you up

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