Listen to Thommo, then listen to that clown Darren Owen.  That’s the standard we are left with.  Dreadful.

Stupid man.  You, not Thommo.

Tommo on Luck on Sunday this morning.

Tommo for strictly.

A grafter,for certain.

https://youtu.be/mtzzmD4hFLQ?si=DUK7J-sEhMy72lVC

good bloke , regular guy with good intentions

Really? Not sure some of his history would chime in with any of that. I won't repeat it, as most will already know it.

Don't sit on the fence Ponch

Yeah experience of you, ya cabbage

I thought you’d explode into
Your usual rant of foul language and name
Calling, ya must be learning some fcuking
Manners??

He is not going to retire,Nap.

Ponchos is definitely two different people who have access to the one account.

He's doing filming fur the shergar story

As Alex Ferguson told his players,the best skill,talent any footballer can have,is hard work.hard work is in itself a talent,no matter how much you scream,encourage push a player,some just want to play within themselves,others will bust a gut.

But then Phil Neville,no talent but just constantly wanting to try harder work harder,or Eric cantona.

Both succeed,but why should talentless people do well just cos they try harder.vica versa for talented who can’t be arsad.

We all remember when Phil Neville was given a commentary job for the bbc,England v USA World Cup.

What a shocker,he got slated,his reply,I ve taken it onboard I’ll go away and work on it.so I can improve.

People call the racing gravy train,but they ll all doing a job,so they re promoting the sport,presenting the sport.

The only take out merchants are ,winning punters ,not many.
Anyone who makes a living from racing but put s nothing back.
I.e a pitch bookie,who maybe could sponsor a race.
A food vendor at tracks,same again.
Bigger bookies ,who don’t sponsor enough races,or do other stuff.
Employment companies who send 300 staff to a festival,but don’t put a penny back,even into racing charities etc.
Oh,I miss one,AK bets,who moans all the time about how much servicing a customer costs him,whilst sat in the fat duck blowing 5 k on burnt cream,then tells you we couldn’t take enough bets quick enough,it was our best day ever.
Then gets free tv of itv,the costs are a joke,we’ve just bought a racecourse shop.pmsl.

My Tommos best quote,was when he said to a rails bookie,

The rails bookie moaning about a night time meeting,20k people there to see Tom jones,the bookie,they don’t bet or only bet 2 quid.
Tommo said,there’s 20k people there,sell yourself,encourage them to bet.

Perhaps for a ton,leif.
A man of little integrity

Sue Montgomery on Thommo back in 1998 in The Independent (my fave part of the article, highlighted)

DEREK THOMPSON, the racing journalist whose evidence in The Sporting Life libel trial caused such a stir yesterday, is best-known as the member of the Channel 4 team whose watchwords might be: have mike, will interview.

Thompson, 47, has established a reputation that he will talk to anyone, indeed to anything - from the champion jockey to a goat. His wide range and uncrushable matiness have some praising his consummate professionalism, others reaching for the sick bag.

Thompson's style is veneer-smooth - it has been said he is veneer all the way through - with an almost permanently fixed smile (false at times, he admits) and a manner that is sometimes undeniably patronising. He tends to be given the lightweight, off-beat spots on Channel 4 and aims for populist appeal, but he is by no means everyone's cup of tea.


The biographical blurb on the inside flap of the cover of his recently published book Tommo's Year gives his nickname as "The Master of the Microphone". Many, however, know him as "The Nodding Dog", a reference to the constant head-bobbing that accompanies many interviews, or "Toilet" Thompson. The goat, a racehorse's companion, is to blame for the latter as viewers were informed: "Oh look, it's doing a pooh."

"Tommoballs" are legion, and Lester Piggott, never one to waste words, apparently told him to "F*** off" in front of a worldwide audience of hundreds of millions on Derby Day in 1983.

He undoubtedly enjoys the celebrity status that TV exposure has given him, but then an ego of a certain size is not uncommon in visual media work. And to his credit, the man also gives the impression he would carry on interviewing if someone set his trousers on fire. In his book, the show must go on.

Thompson earns his living as a TV presenter, as a commentator for Satellite Information Services (the service which shows live racing in betting shops) and at Nad El Sheba racecourse in Dubai. He also contributes to the Irish television station RTE and has his name on a premium-rate tipping line.

His made his debut with a microphone at the age of 15, while still at Guisborough Grammar School, when he called the runners home at his local Cleveland point-to-point.

After he left school at 17, he gained first-hand experience of horses, working for periods of six months each for the Bishop Auckland trainer Denys Smith and Pierre Sanoner at Chantilly, and rode in several amateur races on the Flat and over jumps, famously beating the Prince Of Wales in a close finish at Plumpton in 1980 for his only victory.

Remember him,running up the stand in the best mate stand at chelt,the big no roof one,temporary at the far end of the stand,it’s gone now.

Before big bucks 3rd win in world hurdle,screaming at everyone,have you all backed big bucks.

The laugh might have been put on,but he seemed genuine,his job was to do that,and he did.
There’s not many bad stories about him,only him wanting to make money and laugh,he wasn’t fake,he was a showman,for a fee of course.

Fined for telling lies on his Tipping Line whilst being in Dubai and claiming to be in Newmarket at the time.
A good worker but with not an ounce of integrity.

Iron,who fined him. Ofcom

Never bet odds on.bookies must love this.

So it’s a 6/4 banker.

Put it up at 10/11,that will stop a lot from backing it.