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Ian_Davies said:
I'd say there is a long history - and not just in racing - of flawed "celebrities" gaining and, for a while, retaining widespread popularity with members of the public who feel they can identify with them.

People who (pardon the unfortunate pun) have car crash lives themselves often lap up stories about "celebs" making successions of bad life decisions while in the public eye.

The human psyche is a weird thing and many actually take comfort from those manifestly more successful materially in life proving just as flawed as people as they are.

It seems to me social media is full of young blokes with a pint in one hand and a mobile phone in the other who, when they're not lumping on the latest Bloggeresque banker, or having an "acca," are all too ready to defend the likes of Murphy.

"Have you never made a mistake in your life?" is a popular mantra with them.

Well, just about all of us have made mistakes in our lives, but for most people those mistakes didn't involve driving cars into trees while over the limit, nor indeed the other numerous errors Murphy has made, for this was not an isolated incident.

I actually sense opinion is more divided on Murphy now than before.

There was a time when, to give an off-the-wall example, the IMO unspeakably-awful Katie (Jordan) Price had a level of popularity among those who seemingly identified with her.

But popularity is ephemeral as Price discovered and Murphy may eventually discover too.

Here in 2025 there is a tendency initially to focus on issues people have, and even laud them for having the "courage," to admit those issues, rather than focus on the consequences for others of a personal failure to manage and control those issues.

But even in 2025 life's supply of second chances remains ultimately finite, no matter who you are.
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Without wanting to keep repeating myself on this subject, Murphy crossed the line with the public when his addiction affected a third party. He’s out of credit with the vast majority of people.
 
Slim said:
Without wanting to keep repeating myself on this subject, Murphy crossed the line with the public when his addiction affected a third party. He’s out of credit with the vast majority of people.
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In my opinion he is a complete and utter Narcissist so in his eyes like all narcissist’s he is never in the wrong. The best thing the Bloody Hopeless Association could have done would been to have stopped him riding for “X” number of months therefore removing some of the pressures that perhaps fuel his need of substances/drink and although he does appear a hopeless case give him time to realise what he is missing and to give him targets to achieve and not cloaked set of rules that he must obey that nobody other than him and Bloody Hopeless Association know what the rules are 🤷🏻‍♂️
 
Gullible said:
In my opinion he is a complete and utter Narcissist so in his eyes like all narcissist’s he is never in the wrong. The best thing the Bloody Hopeless Association could have done would been to have stopped him riding for “X” number of months therefore removing some of the pressures that perhaps fuel his need of substances/drink and although he does appear a hopeless case give him time to realise what he is missing and to give him targets to achieve and not cloaked set of rules that he must obey that nobody other than him and Bloody Hopeless Association know what the rules are 🤷🏻‍♂️
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The BHA are like the mother who tells her child, 'I'll deal with you when we get home' after they’ve been naughty in public — then gets home and lets them stay up until midnight playing computer games and eating ice cream.
 
Slim said:
The BHA are like the mother who tells her child, 'I'll deal with you when we get home' after they’ve been naughty in public — then gets home and lets them stay up until midnight playing computer games and eating ice cream.
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Many an org are like that unfortunately, well if your face fits with the right people
 
Striking isnt it that Oisin Murphy gave the interview to the sycophantic Chapman . Had he seen Lydia Hislop approaching for an interview on the topic I suspect he would have run a mile.
 
Call a spade a spade. He looks f$%^ing ridiculous. He says he’s a big fan of Lewis Hamilton and Jimmy Butler. Who’s going to break it to him that he’s not black?
 
Slim said:
Call a spade a spade. He looks f$%^ing ridiculous. He says he’s a big fan of Lewis Hamilton and Jimmy Butler. Who’s going to break it to him that he’s not black?
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You can identify as anything these days.
 
If I turned up at a family event with my hair done like that the rest of the family would be somewhere between brutal and ruthless with their comments.

And I'd thoroughly deserve it.
 
Paul Carberry once dyed his hair blonde Rose Of Tralee Race week.
When the stewards called him after a race the inquiry was surprisingly short as the couldn't keep serious for any length.
There may be method to Danny's madness given how tight Galway is.
 

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