"When the guillotines go up in Leicester square"

Not in my lifetime Al, or yours for that matter - we're both a bit long in the tooth and the revolution's a long way off!

The subject is indeed the boat race, but you and others have taken a lot of trouble to slag off not only the 'posh gits', but the very sport of rowing itself. Your own words damn you - "The thing is about rowing, its like fives and foxhunting - it posh gits".

My grouse is simply that you and others, on the basis of some kind of perverse class-hatred, are tarring an entire sport, one which demands absolute, supreme fitness of its participants (could you lift a 55lb sack of potatoes from the ground to your chest, forty times a minute continuously for sixteen minutes?) and all of its devotees with the same brush.

I personally don't understand peoples' devotion to horse-racing or golf - both are, IMHO, the most abysmal waste of TV-time there is, and are also beloved of the well-off, but I wouldn't deny others their right to enjoy them simply because of jealousy of their wealth.

As I said, it's not a good idea to stereotype, and that's always true whether those under the cosh of the stereotypers are supposed posh-git sportsmen and women, or those dreadful Muslims who are apparently all running around with bombs under their Jib-Jabs.

BTW - I played squash for thirty years too - I suppose that confirms me as a posh git?