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IMO they were right to differentiate themselves from the C4 racing team. The C4 racing team were dossing on the job:- and they had a much better product to work with then.
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Good job Francesca was educated at the local comp', or else she might not have got a job with ITV racing.
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It saddens me when every person who has been to a private school is subject to a prejudice which to me seems very similar to racism. How many of them had the choice at age 11 of which school they went to? I went to a local comprehensive but as a farmer's son, I had some friends at private school and there are very good and very bad examples from every school. It is the continuous use of the term "working people" by Starmer and Reeves which is making class warfare worse. It is a pointless and meaningless term. My wife and I are retired so presumably we don't count as working, nor do the unemployed, disabled or anyone else who is not on an official payroll presumably. Most wealthy people work very hard indeed.
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Francesca Cumani is a particularly ill-chosen example of the power of private schools. Clearly it was her name and not her old school tie that got her on telly.
In modern parlance, she is a nepo-baby. |
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The producers of sports programmes seem to consider particiaption as an essential qualification to be a pundit. Some are very good. Phil Tufnell is a natural in cricket, Nasser Hussein and Mike Atherton are good on TV but others are only there because they played for England or West Indies etc. Similarly despite never riding professionally so far as I know Nick Luck has overcome every percieved disadvantage to be the best racing presenter we have and it has not been lost on the US and Australian Channels who employ him for big meetings. Jason Weaver is good as is Lydia Hislop who is another who has come from journalism rather than being a racing professional. Seb Sanders is OK as is Luke Harvey but I don't think either would be employed if they had not been jockeys themselves.
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Class means diddly squat to the Australians why pay Francesca a six-figure fee for the Melbourne Cup meet. She is highly regarded for her knowledge, contacts and presentation
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Who not why
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