Peter Swann Gimcrack Dinner Speech (York Races), Tuesday 12th December 2017.
[extract from]:
“I was asked if there were many comparisons with my other love which is being the Chairman of a football league club, in particular, between footballers and horses, well surprisingly there is as follows:
We try and buy athletic, good moving, fit horses as we do footballers. If they move well, have no major injuries and have a forward going mentality it ticks a lot of boxes for both players and horses. However some have vices, in horses we have windsuckers, cribbers,
weavers and a lot need headgear, rugs and blindfolds to go into the stalls.
In football we have dribblers who should pass, passers who should dribble, goal scorers who don’t score and defenders who can’t defend. Some need help and wear gloves, tights and support equipment along with a few who would benefit from a stall handler pushing them onto the pitch in the cold depths of winter.
The one telling connection is neither a footballer or horse has won mastermind and you can make your own conclusions from that!“
