RIP Bert Sugar

I'm not sure that's true though, Gaz. Fair enough if you think it was misplaced, maybe it was, but in the same way I don't feel bad when rapists die, I'm not going to shed too many tears when Bert Sugar, who at the very least committed "date ****", does.

Sorry if anyone thinks it's offensive.

My feelings on his journalism don't really come into it. He's a decent writer, nothing remarkable besides wearing a very fine hat. If he was just nailing 18-year old graduates, then yeah it's a bit dubious, but whatever. When you get them so smashed they don't know what's happening and finger them during the taxi ride home, I think it's gone beyond dubious.

 

Just spat a mouthful of lager over my laptop screen reading that post!

 

You sure about that? I cant imagine someone of BS advanced age being able to do something like that.

 

Sounds like a old school version of Relentless.

:good

 

Well, he certainly can't do it now.

 

he was only 74

****, i thought he was well into his 80's, the cancer really ****ed him up didnt it, poor fella

RIP Bert, a true legend of the sport

 

R.I.P Bert, I liked listening to the stories this guy had to tell.

 

How the **** could you know that, aside from being the cabbie?

 

I just hope he washed his fingers before he smoked his cigar...

 

from dubious to god-like figure in one fell swoop.

 

Ive got some ****ed up image of dftaylor driving bert sugar around in a new york taxi while he fingers a passed out 18 year old.

 

Who did he work for in the finish? Good historian whatever else. RIP to the guy

 

That's a pretty well known story. Chris Jones writes about Sugar's worrying behaviour in his book Falling Hard. Ron Borges mentioned it in a column a few years back. I'm pretty sure Dan Rafael mentioned about it a few years back, in between slating him for fabricating quotes and sources.

 

R.i.p.

 

That joke was pretty clungeworthy Mand....