Glengoyne Comment of the Month winner – July

Every month we award a bottle of Glengoyne 10 year old single malt – the finest whisky available to humanity – to a commenter…

We always said we could award the Glengoyne Comment of the Month for any reason, and this time we’ve gone for out-and-out sycophancy. The winner is Richard, for this observation on James Hamilton’s excellent meta-sport post Gary Neville and the Meaning of a Life:

Marvellous – the dabbler always somehow makes my day. Personally I have fond memories of some documentary showing Gary and Beckham sharing a preposterous Cheadle Hulme mansion bitd: touching in its innocent ignorant (they are incompetently boiling pasta in an impossibly expensive kitchen) proper brilliant unpretentious boyishness – a special quality of sportsmen: that liberation by physical ability from even consideration of the dilemmas that us mere mortals are made clumsy by.

The comment as a whole did make us laugh (well ‘Cheadle Hulme’ is an inherently funny place name, like Bognor Regis) but, in truth, knowing that the Dabbler does make people’s day gives us heart to carry on and the whole effort seems worthwhile. Thanks Richard, we’ll be in touch about delivering the whisky.

To everyone else, thanks for your excellent comments and if you haven’t commented before, please do so. We’re unlikely to award the next bottle for similar sucking up, but don’t let that stop you…

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