Genuine real actual breaking mascot news! Really! Even the fake furlong is fixed - Telegraph

Wow. Breaking news about mascots. I was so excited when I heard this on the radio this morning I spilt my tea.


The Telegraph are leading with this today:




Even the fake furlong is fixed - Telegraph: "Even the fake furlong is fixed
The venerable Mascot Grand National has been infiltrated in recent years by contestants who are bent on winning, which is hardly in the spirit of the British sport". 


So it turns out that teams are attempting to fix the yearly Mascot Grand National by entering ringers. The guy who spends all year dressed as a mascot doesn't get to race in the highlight of the mascot calendar. Instead they enter a ringer and even go as far as streamlining the costume for efficiency.  More from the Telegraph:


"This venerable contest between football club mascots, where scores of persons clad in gigantic outfits of foam and fake fur struggle along a 220-yard course and over six fences, has been infiltrated in recent years by contestants who are bent on winning, which is hardly in the spirit of the British sport. More to the point, some of these participants are not the actual mascots who attend matches, but ringers in stripped-down costumes, designed for velocity rather than levity. "


Here they are.  Please note that this picture is to illustrate the story and there is no implication that any of the pictures mascots are involved in the fix.

This story could run and run, like the mascots, so I'll keep you up to speed thoughout the day.


This is the kind of day I live for.