I've always liked him. He went hugely up in my estimation the year (whenever it was) that the National was run in exceptionally warm weather and he had a fall quite early on, and was seen at the finish busily pouring buckets of water over the finishers.
But this is silly, unprofessional and...
Looks a very tricky course. Fence 4 so early on will catch out many. I just hope there are enough let-up fences and options available so the less experienced nations don't get completely obliterated.
I thought the first week was beyond dreadful. Massive improvement last Saturday and nice to see that they'd noted the complaints about the graphics. Still rather dubious about the need for the weather girl though. I do like Cecil!
Be very interesting to see how they deal with the Kempton...
Hard to take in. He was the most gorgeous horse. Just hope it was quick and he knew nothing about it. There's got to be more to this than some fool wandering around with a gun looking for a helpless target.
It grew on me. I could have done without those two clowns doing the compering (dear God!) and that arch-republican, Helen Mirren, getting in on the act (again). The TV presentation generally was dreadful and I watched quite a lot with the sound turned off. And as for all those commercial...