Joker Dwyer is still smiling

BIG INTERVIEW
Rolf Johnson, formerly The Scout of the Daily Express, speaks to a jockey who has reluctantly hung up his boots

It’s a stereotype. They say Liver-pudlians, and Martin Dwyer is an archetypal ‘Scouser’, can talk the hind legs off a donkey,
“Honestly I’ve never ridden one – wait a minute, I was on the cold list a few years ago; yeah, some of them were donkeys!”
Dwyer was born in the heart of a city populated by quick-witted first cousins to Ken Dodd and the scallywags of Boys from the Black Stuff. Any chat with Martin would surely be a rat-a-tat affair; he’s never been short of ...

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