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Chris Cook

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Disappointing that he has been let go by the guardian, who want to concentrate less on horse racing. Always struck me as one of the decent ones out there.
 
Just reading it on Twitter.

He was almost the last sane/insighftul/worthwhile mainstream print racing-journalist out there.

All that’s left is Millington and his coterie of graduate wankers and school-children, who’d pass-out with a fuc*king nose-bleed if they ever had a fiver Yankee on.
 
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The Guardian has far more important things to be writing about like the 56 genders...
 
I think this would have been a bigger deal 15 years ago. You know when you're driving to work in the morning and always pass old fellas walking to the corner shop for their newspaper? This is the last generation, the baby boomers, who will do that. Jumps racing might be slowly dying but it will still outlive newspapers.
 
Its disappointing because as he was writing for a non racing publication he could write about things you wouldn't be able or allowed cover in a racing publication, Sheikh Mo being the obvious example

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Grasshopper said:
Just reading it on Twitter.

He was almost the last sane/insighftul/worthwhile mainstream print racing-journalist out there.

All that’s left is Millington and his coterie of graduate wankers and school-children, who’d pass-out with a fuc*king nose-bleed if they ever had a fiver Yankee on.
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the post should be straight on the phone to him but i won't hold my breath for all the reasons you've given
 
Euronymous said:
I think this would have been a bigger deal 15 years ago. You know when you're driving to work in the morning and always pass old fellas walking to the corner shop for their newspaper? This is the last generation, the baby boomers, who will do that. Jumps racing might be slowly dying but it will still outlive newspapers.
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A Depressing thought

It will see out my time anyway
 
Sorry that your thread was hijacked, Chris Cook. But being a proper journalist you probably appreciate the irony of it being taken over by a big news story :).
 
As long as they let him write and not just become another silent promoter of (insert preferred betting firm here..................).
 

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