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Robert Cooper: It’s a man actually, Derek Thompson…

Robert Cooper welcomes Derek ‘Big Fella’ Thompson to the ‘quiet’ life

Time flies when you’re having a good time, and since hanging up my Sky Sports Racing microphone a year ago, I haven’t had a second to contemplate digging my spuds or bundling my golf clubs into the back of the car.
Not that life has been so frantic that either pastime – digging a pastime? – has been scrubbed from the ‘to do’ list.
It seems only a few days since I walked away from Great Yarmouth racecourse, but now I spy a Big Fella following in my footsteps. I was at my beloved Wolverhampton racecourse to witness Tommo’s ...

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