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Racing Post article regarding betfair forum.
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Davix.........
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Don Butler still about.
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Yes - We had a long Thread on Don Butler - aka Cubone - aka Lukehart (his son's Forum account, I imagine)
Somebody posted that he was still scheming.  |
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Thanks for that. Nice to hear. Never met the guy unless for all I know I may have done as I was regularly at all the big courses close to London, during the late 70s until about 1990. You'd see the same faces then on course.
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He used to bet 'The Away Meetings' - jumper3
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Don't think you could call Dons activities Betting! More like daylight robbery!
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Whenever I read anything Alan Charnier put up as it was so polite, and posh. Terry Thomas in his pomp sprang to mind, outwardly a gentleman, in reality, a complete Bounder
And a penchant for the finest wines and champagnes.Moved to Macau when last heard of? |
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I just got fed up with having to re=read every sentence Butler posted here about four times to overcome the spelling errors.
I think you had to be blessed with an uncompromising Brummie accent to make any sense of it. Ow bin ya. |
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Butler/cubone had a long-running feud with Fremantle/freebooter, all the way from their racecourse days in the Midlands. Like all regular racegoers of the time, Fremantle was unhappy about the thieving odds Butler fleeced the public with on the aways, while Butler himself didn't feel that that was anyone's business but his own.
It came to a head one frozen afternoon at Worcester. As it was the only remaining domestic meeting, Butler was left with no aways to bet on. So, in order to help him out, Fremantle went and stood next to Butler's empty joint and bellowed, "'Oory oop! They're goin' be'oind at Tooorfontaaaaaaaaaayne!" At which point Butler came the closest I've ever seen to a human being spontaneously combusting. The brilliant thing was the way Butler continued the vendetta on here years afterwards, regularly reminding us how he might have "born in the gutter", but would always be considerably classier than you. |
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Ocean Finance
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Which character did he audition for in Peaky Blinders.
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Those were the days on here, some good guys have come and gone. I remember a few of the users of the racing forum would go over too chit chat after racing had finished just to wind them up over there, many times we left there gone 1am.
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Such a contrived load of bollox about the "Early Days" eg the "Good Old Days".The fact is it was like a playground for so called "Professionals" to try and outdo each other.As Ryanwe once said "It is like a playground full of ten year old kids trying to outswear each other"
The Forum was progressing and evolving extremely well until the Racing Post took exception and particularly Mary Millington started to complain about the freedom of speech and honest opinion affecting his bottom line and advertisers? One of their biggest,one of the biggest CONS in the history of "Journalism" allowed a free reign on the Forum because of the spend and Mary's influence on the policing by so called "Management" of the Forum? Name the guilty if you dare but do not worry about retribution,the evidence is CAST IRON!!!!  |
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Well then you should have left as well ydc.
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All cotton wool fairytale nostalgia.
All the decent stuff went with the restricted entry and subsequent banning. |
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That is where things changed Tiger,Keyboard warriors with massive personal issues crept in and had to have multiple user names?
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Well said Chav,hit the nail on the head.
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No one can say f all for fear of offending someone and that is why litigation proceedings are ongoing forcing the suspension of chit chat
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Most of those banned were banned for good reason?
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As for the article..let’s not live in the past when the parameters and culture were somewhat different to now please.
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How many were YOU? No point lying btw!!!
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How many were you
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NONE that were not made obvious and solely for exposing frauds!!!! And only one banned btw and down to the Racing Post who objected to £100K losses that were alleged my allegations would cost them.Mary Millington did not not fancy a Court Appearance but never actually retracted his/her accusation of "Picking on my paper"
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Mary Millington
so you were a porn dwarf then? |
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You could offer to meet people in car parks for a tear up back then...so how can you compare that to now
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Rose tinted glasses by people who obviously still read but don’t contribute
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I’ve read a lot of those old threads and they were pretty dire
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Years ago at this hour of night the discussion was about the next days rscing, backing or laying. It was normally a fruitful discussion but the forum has been taken over by the 'I know everything' brigade, who offer nothing but promise everything.
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Could well be a discussion on a future Fred Platinum. Where will the future exchange players direct their attention?
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i remember them nites platinum , quite colourful i recall
great period for this forum that , font of knowledge and a semi decent post easily hit 300 replies in no time , mostly insults tbh personally i think there was a massiv drop out same time the format first changed didnt recover after , may be wrong tho |
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The 'abuse' in those days was more welcome, in that everyone knew that the 'abuse' was just the same as of lads have a chat in the pub..........
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Or, on some cases, after the pubs had shut!...........
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In those days there was a market when you woke up,before 10 am.
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sedgefield racecourse will always be in my memory
punter came home to find boss up his wifes backside a brilliant write up follows |
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Forums were different class , the banter and people ripping each other was Different , some threads were classic comedy ......
Dog Forum poker forum Were also brilliant The demise of the Poker forum was unreal  |
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Obviously nostalgia isn’t as good as it used to be if you like a good moan about everything and are generally a miserable bastid
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Seems some of the contributors in that piece assume they're above us mere mortals when it comes to punting. Honestly, does anyone on the forum not think they would punt just as successfully as the likes of Williams?
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Good point MJK when you think about it, every betting shop in the country had a Matt Williams and Derek McGovern type character in it.
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