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Get over yourself Eddie and leave Thommo alone. I’ll miss him on C4 racing, his good humour and enthusiasm are great to see on TV
Well said
Certainly, life would be a lot duller without Tommo.
Meanwhile, I can’t watch I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here without thinking that Eric Bristow looks like Ian Bartlett.
The doleful, hooded eyes, the prominent nose, the thick-set face, Bristow’s looked the spitting image of Barty every single time I have watched him. Separated at birth?
Get over yourself Eddie and leave Thommo alone. I’ll miss him on C4 racing, his good humour and enthusiasm are great to see on TV
Well said
Have you always been a hypocrite Phil? You’ve repeatedly made personal attacks on Chapman for basically not liking him or his style but object to me criticising your beloved Tommo for poor broadcasting. Get a life.
Certainly, life would be a lot duller without Tommo.
Meanwhile, I can’t watch I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here without thinking that Eric Bristow looks like Ian Bartlett.
The doleful, hooded eyes, the prominent nose, the thick-set face, Bristow’s looked the spitting image of Barty every single time I have watched him. Separated at birth?
Which got me thinking … Thommo on the next I’m a Celebrity … made for it …
Thing is he will be gone off screen after a month or so
so why bother with him ,??in fairness though , he has done well to make a good recovery , so on a personal level , well done Thommo
Eddie I agree with you
Ricky ….imo
The criticism is a bit unreasonable;Thommo is enthusiastic and his in-race commentary is decent. Ok his humour is sometimes forced, but I much prefer him to plums-in-mouth Claire Balding; her rise and rise mystifies me. To be fair she had to put up with the cackling and incoherent Willie Carson for years
I don’t think Thommo is thick, it is more a case of stretching a situation to try to squeeze a joke out, no matter how corny or convoluted it might be. I remember some years ago the French horse Diffident winning one of the Guineas trials impressively before Thommo guffawed "This horse is DIFFIDENT class, Ho Ho Ho", though the horse didn’t stay a mile in the end.
I don’t think Thommo is by any means alone, as some of the regulars mentioned recently, the boy Machin was at it with Eton Rifles "Holding too many guns for his rivals". My own favourites in this vein are:-
"If you have backed King Of Tunes, you can breath more easily now"
and
"Here comes Pessimistic Dick taking it up in the closing stages, he must have been on the Viagra last night!!"
Not sure of the "authors" of the above comments but its just a bit of fun, I think there are other facets of racing to be more concerned about.
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
"Here comes Pessimistic Dick taking it up in the closing stages, he must have been on the Viagra last night!!"
That’s an absolute classic. Haven’t heard that one before.
I’d love to know who said that one. It could easily be Tommo because it’s a bit naughty but, failing that, Stewart Machin must be the other likely suspect.
"It won’t interfere with my commentating, or Tommo TV for which we already have stacks of dates in the UK for next year, or my opening betting shops, but it is a nice bit of security after Channel 4."
He also has a couple of more strings to his bow CrustyPatch that I’m surprised he didn’t mention, his lucrative premium rate tipping line that has been going for many years and of course he will have a substantial income from his pro-punting.
Don’t think even Tommo would deliberately set up a young jockey in a live interview so obviously he wasn’t joking yesterday.
"Here comes Pessimistic Dick taking it up in the closing stages, he must have been on the Viagra last night!!"
That’s an absolute classic. Haven’t heard that one before.
I’d love to know who who said that one. It could easily be Tommo because it’s a bit naughty but, failing that, Stewart Machin must be the other likely suspect.
It was a race I was watching on At The Races, might have been the last one he won at Plumpton. I can’t believe that it was as far back as 2003. The comment definitely deserved/s to reach a wider audience. It wasn’t Thommo though, that much I do recall!!
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
"It won’t interfere with my commentating, or Tommo TV for which we already have stacks of dates in the UK for next year, or my opening betting shops, but it is a nice bit of security after Channel 4."
He also has a couple of more strings to his bow CrustyPatch that I’m surprised he didn’t mention, his lucrative premium rate tipping line that has been going for many years
Tommo gets so much criticism on other forums for his controversial tipping lines and he has also been vilified for them in some lengthy and very detailed newspaper investigations.
Some of the biggest complaints seem to be the lengthy, pointless preambles listeners have to endure (at premium rates, of course) before they get any tips, the supposedly endless tipping of favourites and, more questionably, allegedly giving different tips on the same race for different tipster lines. Thoroughly disreputable if it is true.
Not to mention supposedly pretending to be on the Newmarket gallops instead of allegedly really being somewhere else, including abroad.
These tipping lines tarnish his reputation, in my view, and it surprises me that Tommo and others like Mike Cattermole want to risk alienating so many people by associating themselves with them.
Ah yes, it’s the shedloads of money to be made from gullible mugs.
I have been told in the past on this forum, when this issue has been raised, that if people are daft enough to waste their money on telephoning tipsters instead of sitting down and working out the form for themselves and making their own decision on who may win a race, they deserve to be ripped off but it still leaves a bad taste in the mouth when it is well-known TV presenters who are lining their pockets in this way.
They should be above that.
I like Tommo
He’s the heart and soul of Newmarket ‘in house’ racing on a cold and wet evening meeting and he livens up the winners enclosure when passing around his bucket for punters to put in their losing tickets in order to qualify for a prize after each race.I never heard him whinge once about his illness which to all accounts was quite serious and I’d have ten of him over MrCririck, Stevenson, Tom Lee in fact any of the Channel 4 presenters.
Fondly known as ‘Toilet Tommo’ as all his tips go down the pan, he is the first one to laugh at himself and we love him for it and wish him well in his new career.
Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...I’ve noticed that Thommo uses the word ‘outstanding’ far too frequently to describe things that appear rather ordinary at best.
I’ve noticed that Thommo uses the word ‘outstanding’ far too frequently to describe things that appear rather ordinary at best.
Tommo’s very fond of saying "That was an outstanding performance" even when it wasn’t particularly.
One things for the certain, the awful pale blue bobble hat Tommo wore on the Morning Line was an outstanding example of what a presenter should not be wearing on television if he has any self-awareness at all.
Having said that, it’s quite poignant to be watching people like Alastair Down, Tommo, John Francome and McCririck on the racing when they will soon be disappearing.
It’s certainly a shame about Alastair Down and, with all his foibles, Tommo. Gina Bryce, Rishi Persad and Graham Cunningham don’t exactly fill me with excitement.
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