My Mate Geoff
Ever since Monster and I (grammer) had a jumping lesson from Geoff Billington a few years ago Kirsty has always referred to him as “my mate Geoff”.
Lat night I got to see “my mate Geoff” again as part of the Champions Tour, a show by Geoff and Oli Townend.
Now those of you who have ever been lucky enough to see Geoff commentating or jumping will know that any show involving Geoff will not be disappointing. For all his messing about and spoofing of other riders you know that he has the ablities to match the showmanship. I loved the casual way he placed a pint of Guinness on the puissance wall in Dublin, jumped the wall, then collected his, unspilled, pint.
So you pretty much expect to see Geoff messing about and interrupting Oli.
Oli on the other hand was an unkown quantity to me. I expected from what I’d seen on TV that he’d be a nice lad with an ablity to play up to the crowd. And so it proved.
What I didn’t expect to see was a sense of humour as sharp as Geoffs. Not only did Oli manage to get his own back, but at one point as well as having the crowd in stitches he actually managed to have Geoff corpsing. I’ll not spoil things for those who are going by giving things away, except to say that this is possibly the funniest riders tour you’ll ever see, while still coming away learning some useful tips.
The Champions Tour – go see it.