john mcririck - legend or idiot?

First class idiot

mac not u

Thommo can certainly be criticised (eg because of his tipping service) but he is in my opinion a charismatic character and a good ambassador for racing - the sport needs personalities like him to appeal to a wider audience

He's a thoroughly unpleasant man, intersted only in £££, who has done more damage to the public image of racing than anyone else in its entire history, imo...

Galileo - I can't think of ANYONE I've EVER seen with less charisma than Thompson, and I'm really scraping the fcukin' barrel here squire

My pet guinea-pig has far more personality, and I've NEVER seen anyone to rival the bellend that is 'Thommo' for exponential insincerity

As for the 'poser' the OP suggested...McCririck is a tiresome ballbag and a massive IDIOT - I can't wait for him to disappear from our screens as he's INTENT on making his mark as a 'martyr' for the animal rights perverts, who themselves probably detest the prick as much as I do!

Maybe I should come off the fence a bit

Legend. I also like Thomas.

Both surely

Actually dont mind him, He is a stark contrast to the toffs and snoots that surround the sport and do it far more damage than Mcririck has done. Agree that a lot of him is just an act and people take it all a bit too seriously.

just out of interest , no doubt all heard Big mac over egg the failed bookie line a million times,more like 'punting tick tick tick clerk if truth be told ! but remember the infamous  mac,luke harvey Barney Curley 'debate' ! ATR / at the races when one of Barneys drifted like the kontiki and ran like a drunk crab.what did Curley mean when he put it to mac about 'bailing ' him out ?
mac sure looked sheepish ! and seemed to have no answer to that ?

I'm with PHC, by popular support I think you would have to concede he's legendary but the reality of the man is that he's a truly awful person, shot through with just about every base atavism imaginable

Legend of an idiot and I'll be having fish again later on in the day for dinner.

Oops, just seen the Curley question now but apparently he "saved his bacon" by negotiation on his behalf with bookmakers he owed money to to give him more time to pay off the debt, presumably so that he then wouldn't be barred from attending the races and so on.

Big Mac's act is an act but one that has done immense damage to racing. His (affected) misogyny and looney right wing politics drive away viewers, advertisers and broadcasters.

An idiot, but legendary all the same. Get the impression that he's despised by his contemporaries and is often deeply embarrassing for the sport, yet at the same time he can be quite amusing (usually without intending to be) and racing would feel a little odd without him.

Sadly I feel it is we punters who have the problem.

As punters we are considered to be and portayed as, by the general public at least, wasters, thieves, cheats, liars and wife beaters. On top of that the sport we love is being maligned in every other section of society and now the animal rights activists are targetting it.

So when loony Big Mac comes on we automatically feel defensive and protective of 'our' sport. If we were strong enough we would just laugh at his stupidity but our resolve is not strong enough.

Add to that the bookies are ripping off the levy and reducing 'our' sport to computerised or low grade racing just to line their pockets.

It is high time we started to stand up for ourselves and fight back. But, being a disperate band of loners that is never going to happen so life will be lonely, often bitter and seldom affordable but still we go on.

Total pr*ck

Won thing about Big Mac... hes never used his ''celebrity'' to fleece steam tugs with a tipping service !

a truly brilliant self promoter,not a nice person and after reading some of these responses he must have chameleon like qualities.More snobbish and stuck up than any Lord or titled chinless wonder.

Hugh-Mongous     16 Mar 12 01:47 
Galileo - I can't think of ANYONE I've EVER seen with less charisma than Thompson, and I'm really scraping the fcukin' barrel here squire

My pet guinea-pig has far more personality, and I've NEVER seen anyone to rival the bellend that is 'Thommo' for exponential insincerity

As for the 'poser' the OP suggested...McCririck is a tiresome ballbag and a massive IDIOT - I can't wait for him to disappear from our screens as he's INTENT on making his mark as a 'martyr' for the animal rights perverts, who themselves probably detest the prick as much as I do!

Maybe I should come off the fence a bit





Brilliant. Absolutely spot on !

Half the staff on ch4 racing are unnecessary.

Ramruma     16 Mar 12 07:39 
Big Mac's act is an act but one that has done immense damage to racing. His (affected) misogyny and looney right wing politics drive away viewers, advertisers and broadcasters.



Correct. The goon is a complete embarrassment

Sack the fu**ing lot

Sack the fu**ing lot

A1 bell end imo

I have little time for the majority of these racing presenters with the exception of Thommo for whom I have no time at all.  They get themselves a nice seat on the Gravy Train and make a good living from doing next to nothing.  Punters like you and me who genuinely love our sport are marginalised and treated with contempt almost like some foul smelling waste product to be flushed away and forgotten about.

and so we come to Matt Doyle.....

Ramruma
McCririck has caused immense damage to racing.What a stupid statement.
Bent owners,trainers,jockeys and bookmakers have damaged the racing industry,not one colourful clown who most people ignore,

Oh for the halcyon days of John Rickman, Raleigh Gilbert, Julian Wilson, POS, The Rock, Jimmy Lindley....

The racing industry is top heavy with a bunch of freeloaders.  There are millions of people in this country who work hard and do a good job for cr@p pay while these people do a cr@p job for very good pay.  You only had to watch RUK's Kempton coverage on Wednesday night - Nevison and Willoughby added absolutely nothing of value to the evenings racing - at one point they were even talking about pigeon racing FFS - a point you picked up on watchit.  The other week we had Gordon Brown discussing the chances of a horse ten minutes before a race that was a fcking non-runner - very poor indeed.

anton


In your opinion. However, McCr is the 'face of racing' to the general public. Its his ugly visage and bullshlt spouting that does the damage. People not involved in the sport are not knowledgeable enough to have your insight into the 'bent' industry.

What is really laughable is how he gets annoyed with people in the crowd.I mean he waves his arms about giving it the archaic tic tac signs & thinks people should be interested???

Its puerile

Both!

Matt is the best - sky 415 - he's got talent

Hi guys and girls  bit of advice. re theses TV presenters  have you ever tried  The Mute Button ..works for me .

That's the point zipper - we shouldn't have to use the mute button - they should have presenters on who are interesting, informed and aren't afraid to ask relevant and pertinent questions.  Instead of a bunch of people who must have @rses full of splinters from sitting on the fence for so long.

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Big Mac's act is an act but one that has done immense damage to racing. His (affected) misogyny and looney right wing politics drive away viewers, advertisers and broadcasters

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