Anyone been listenin to Alan Brazil.......

[JBizzleBeard]

..........on Talksport 'steaming' about Cheltenham being called off today? Jesus calm down dear!!

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Brazil, it's like listening to Brazil!

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

probably because its screwed up their show!

 

[JBizzleBeard]

Nah, more like its screwed his day up!

 

[Mtoto]

What was he saying Trojan? Surely not suggesting that Cheltenham shouldn't have abandoned?

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

The general word of mouth is that it is called off as they could not accomodate the 2500 prawn sandwich hospitality brigade and its all down to money. They other 50000 people have been disregarded. There are a lot of angry people.

 

[Easy 10]

I heard him on the way in.
"Namby pamby health & safety numpties" calling it off, and he's on the warpath trying to find out exactly WHO made the decision. Never mind the fact that one of the restaurant structures actually COLLAPSED the other night (luckily with no-one there at the time), and with gales forcasted this afternoon and this evening, the tented village is at risk. Brazil would have been quite alright in the Corals hospitality box of course (in the main stand), so he's "steaming" that todays been called off.

Fat jock gimp.

 

[Ernest]

I am SEETHING with FURY

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I think Brazil is saying its off because of the money generated by 2000 prawn sandwich eaters over the 55000 ordinary punters.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I have had a bit of a childish spat on the other thread but this is a ritual for me and my mate for 20 years and we had planned today for months so I am very pissed off indeed as these special days do not come along often and I have a 1 year wait again.

 

[Herne Hill Seagull]

Seen the pictures of the starter's platform leaning on a bent course rail though? It's not just the prawn sarny mob, there's a real danger of debris on the course given the wind direction apparently.

I'm pretty sure they wouldn't take a decision like this lightly. It's the Cheltenham Festival, FFS...

Brazil's got this one wrong.

 

[Easy 10]

I think Brazil is saying its off because of the money generated by 2000 prawn sandwich eaters over the 55000 ordinary punters.

Well thats bollocks really isn't it. The bottom line is that the Cheltenham organisers couldn't guarantee the safety of the racegoers (prawn sandwich or otherwise). If high winds are damaging structures, blowing tents to bits and sending loose debris blowing all over the course, then they've done the right thing in calling it off today.

 

[Don Tmatter]

Just think how all the thousands&thousands of Irish punters who come across for it are feeling!

 

[Hiney]

I bet the Pubs and Bars in Cheltenham are rubbing their hands with GLEE

 

[Hannibal smith]

I bet the Pubs and Bars in Cheltenham are rubbing their hands with GLEE

Thats exactly what I'm off to do now. Sit in a Cheltenham pub all day playing cards. Every dark cloud and all that.

 

[Mtoto]

Sounds like it was quite a rant, but then it is a rather nice hospitality box. Fifth floor, right over the line, quality fizz and food all day.

It was the Coral box that he was in a few years ago when he woke up the next morning - behind the wheel of his car - in a layby about 20 miles away, with no idea of how he'd got there. When he switched on TalkSport, the big story of the morning was the fact that he hadn't turned up for work....

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Alan likes a drink by all acccounts.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

But then again don't we all.

 

[Uncle Buck]

I bet the Pubs and Bars in Cheltenham are rubbing their hands with GLEE

Do you remember any pubs in Cheltenham?

 

[The Wookiee]

I have had a bit of a childish spat on the other thread but this is a ritual for me and my mate for 20 years and we had planned today for months so I am very pissed off indeed as these special days do not come along often and I have a 1 year wait again.

I remember feeling the same approx 7 years ago when finding out that our game at Mansfield was called off. We were 10 miles away when we found out