Ladies’ Day at Aintree on Grand National weekend is known for many things: elegance, extravagance, ladies…
But we hadn’t necessarily associated it with guys in waistcoats, presumably tipsy, waddling around with their trousers around their ankles.
Nor had we realised that getting stuck in a some shrubbery with your pasty buttocks on display was an established part of the tradition.
But this guy seems to think all that is just par for the course at the Merseyside races – as the below photos clearly show.

Hmm. Not moving as fast as I usually do here. (Picture: Pete Byrne/PA Wire/Press Association Images)

Fancy a bit of a lie-down, I do. (Picture: Pete Byrne/PA Wire/Press Association Images)







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