If you wanted to run Swindon in the NDL, and you owned a perfectly functional, equipped stadium, like the Abbey Stadium, why would you not already be running it there? Would you really invest in building a new stadium just to run at the amateur level?  That's not going to give a satisfactory return on investment.  

Anyhow the make believe story is  that if the made up Stadium gets up and running there will be no floodlights and it will be ran at Nl level on Saturday afternoons.

Are you trying tell me that Osbourne  Clark was telling porkies ...I am. In a  state of shock 

Please avoid Osbourne being referred to by initials.  There was only one CO, Mr Charles Ochiltree.  I thank you!  🐝

Pretty simple to deduce, Joe Thompson instead of Ashton Boughen is 40.01. Consider Boughen was originally in Oxford's team, seems a sensible theory?

Yes.  More lies from Osborne. He was never serious about "Reading Racino" it was just a distraction to allow him to demolish Reading Speedway.   Grosvenor Casinos realised he wasn't serious and went ahead and built their casino in a different part of Reading. If I recall correctly the Gordon Brown thing was about relaxing gambling laws to allow a massive "Super Casino" to be built in either Blackpool or Manchester.   When the bid was won by Manchester rather than Blackpool, things cooled off, and Brown decided there were better things to build rather than SuperCasinos. Brown's decision had no effect on Grosvenor Casinos opening a casino in Reading.   Neither the pie in the sky Speedway track/Casino, nor the actual Casino that they did build in Reading, and which I believe is still there.