Neil Clark
writing about horse racing enthusiasts identifies two character types. Of the kind he does not favour he claims:
Ben, the model new racegoer, is described as "cool and fresh", "intelligent" and someone who is "athletic" and "speaks many languages" [emphasis added]. To me, Ben sounds like the sort of smug, bumptious know-it-all any sane person would emigrate to avoid, let alone want to meet at the races [also here].
But a search uncovered
this at the foot of an article from 2002:
Neil Clark describes himself as: "a politically incorrect conservative socialist". He read History, Law and Government at Brunel University in London and speaks four languages: French, Spanish, German and Hungarian.
So is the old biography a fib or the more recent comment an attempt to ingratiate himself with
Daily Express readers? What is the answer?
