Patronising git

June 4, 2006

Did anyone see it?

Martin Dwyer had just won one of the most exciting Derbies for years on Sir Percy and he was being pursued by a BBC interviewer into the Weighing Room. The ducet tones of the Liverpudlian jockey was unmistakeable and the interviewer was breathlessly determined to get some hyperbolic reaction from our hero.

Dwyer was polite but clearly irritated by the intrepid interviewer who followed him through several swing doors and intruded upon several hugs of delights from Dwyers jockey mates.

Anyway, the end of the interview went something like this ...

Interviewer: "What a year eh Brian ! First the 10.000 Guineas (or whatever) and now this !"

MD: "Yeah, it's fantastic really fantastic !"

Interviewer: "Did you think in your wildest dreams you would ever have a year like this?"

MD: "No, no, it's been great !"

Interviewer: "Not bad for a scouser eh Martin ?"

MD: "No, not bad. I'm doing alright."

WTF does that mean ? I know the interviewer didn't mean the remark as an insult but what a careless thing to say. Why did he feel it was a legitimate statement ? I don't wish to raise the stakes here but I can't imagine the scenario, if the circumstances were different, of the interviewer stating that it isn't bad for a black man or a Welshman or even a Manc or a Cockney or a Geordie.

It would be entirely irrelevant and would have provoked disquiet or outrage. Why did he feel that being a scouser was relevant ?

Edited June 4, 2006 by Red Flame

Spike · June 4, 2006