Time To Tie A Knot In This Bunch Of Snobs

Apr 20 2008 Joe Punter

SNOB rule is in danger of turning the Channel 4 crew in to the sterotypical racing dinosaurs I thought had died out many years ago.

Snide remarks about Rober Thornton's flowing locks belong to the "Angry, Surbiton" brigade.

And while I dare say Choc is unfazed by such remarks I had hoped we had moved on a long way from the short back and sides army mentality.

One of the Ch 4 twats was gobsmacked recently that an owner had dared to step up on the podium for his prize without ... golly gosh ... a tie!

Now if the open-necked gent in question had done so minus his kecks I could have seen the need for comment.

All this twaddle smacks of the old boy network and the fawning and erchie-licking that characterised the sport several decades ago. Anyway people who live in glass houses etc is very much the case for the boys from Ch 4.

Mercifully John McCririck is seen less on our screens now.

But I have yet to hear any of his cohorts take the Lilian out of him for waddling on to our screens dressed in his granny's gear and looking like a burst couch.

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Write to Joe Punter, Sports Desk, Sunday Mail, Glasgow G3 8DA or email him at joepunter@sundaymail.co.uk