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'Jinky' Johnstone playing against a very nasty Athletico Madrid spring to mind...

The Managers back then would scare the life out of todays players.Now they are more worried about looking good than discipline.Look at Jogi Löw.Although he does have a good team,i'll give him that the ponce

Bremner,an absolute legend.But you can't mention him and not mention that superb foto with Dave Mackay :party: Now Dave was hard

Watching the Mikkel interview and looking at the bike brings me to a piece of info i have no idea if it is true or not and knowing Egon probably not But he has posted elsewhere that he 'invented' the disc in the back wheel.Apparently at a Longtrack meet or something he wanted something that would make him stand out from the other 10 or so starters and so put a disc in with a spiral on it that made it look like his wheel was going backwards.He then noticed that it actually had a positive effect on the bike and then others copied his idea......

But on a lighter note i once got a photo of Matej Kus in a Czech psychic magazine.The story went round that Matej had a bad crash when riding in GB and before the crash couldn't speak much english and after was pretty fluent.I had a quite spectacular foto of Matej flying through the air from a meeting in Vojens.This Czech mag used the photo alongside the story.....all ended up well.Hope this does likewise

Was in and out of the kitchen.....but i thought the Nicki interview was before the meeting started???Didn't take any notice of it because of that

Agree with that

I thought he was the cause of the crash tbh

Mikkel Michelsen was quite upset at not being included in the Danish SWC squad.A few of us told him he has to go out and make sure he can't be left out next year.Having followed his career for quite a few years,i feel sure he will make it sooner orlater.And i know Peter S has backed the lad for years.But he needs to do better than that. None other than Erik Gundersen commentating

Seeing as this is speedway rather than beach volleyball i think you are going to have to be far more specific than just "Scary" here.Sort of an all encompasing description with very few exceptions

You would really expect this film to be in Surrey or surrounding areas.Quick bit of research on Sydney Allard shows his company to be based in Clapham.So not far from Wimbledon Speedway and he seemed to have tested cars at Brands Hatch for instance and then got involved in Drag racing at Blackbushe nr Camberley(now there is a speedway link of sorts) and died in Surrey.So would be reasonable to expect this car to have been tested in that area rather than Ireland for example None too flattering, to speedway,piece on the car by someone involved.Although they are saying the film was done at Plough lane http://www.allardreg...r_Spring10c.pdf

Shelbourne Park 1950s http://www.fionnbarcallanan.com/archive-speedway.html

Got the answer to my question on Hans/Sandro.Although they come from the same area of Germany they are not related

Does it? I don't take an awful lot of interest in it,but thought it was one of these meetings where two top scorers are joined by two riders who get through a race-off then it is winner takes all.So you don't have to be the best rider to win it,so you don't have to be a 'form' rider to get a GP wild card.By actually picking a 'form' rider on his 'form' you get a 'form' rider rather than just a rider who goes well on a particular track on a particular night.Or maybe the British Final isn't like that at all and i am mistaken.Then i apologise in advance

They have read the press release wrong........ And look like all they have done is tidy up a google translation...."Push straight up with the Poles" etc http://www.dmusport....=7556&Itemid=66

You have it wrong again, with the team. and we have it all on the SWC thread.Why start another when the correct info is on one started earlier??????

The Guffer,always quick out of the gate with his super farts

Robert got 7 points yesterday including one heat win,but had little support from his partner and finished last.But according to one,had the speed but lacked the experience to pass on a notorious gaters paradise of a track.One of the reasons i have rarely visited the place. A couple of heats showing Robert certainly in contention with Hefenbrock and Gomolski Roberts heat win results http://www.speedway....juni/index.html

Think over the years the team that has won the Race-Off has had a distinct advantage over the teams that go directly into the final.Personally i think this decision i good for Denmark,both now and for the future

Great.Really pleased for Mikkel B :party:

Bit over the top,especially as you then state that you don't know what meetings are being quoted or what context.Fact is there are meetings that get those sort of figures as Ghostwalker say's.In my own experience i was at a Sweden U21 v Denmark U21 meeting in Malmö on a very nice day weather wise and doubt there was more than 100-200 people there including riders,mechanics and staff.

This is a topic that came up at the weekend when i was talking to a journalist......the draw or generally any draw in speedway is far from fair.It was said that certain riders will know beforehand which meeting they will be in if they qualify for the next round!!! But with a seeded rider in the Final....well this is nothing new.Wallner of Austria for instance was in the World U21 final in Austria,despite being eliminated in an earlier round.But of course that is of less importance than a GP Challenge

Ok.Thought maybe you would know how old Jack Cornes was.I see that the Polish rider!!!!!Yes a polish rider on Longtrack/grasstrack is also 13.What is quite interesting is the young German who was unbeaten until he fell in the final....Sandro Wassermann.....i wonder if he is any relation to the exwas it Racer? Hans??? Must investigate this one.Or maybe Jesper has some info on him and the Dutch riders ages?

Just out of interest how old were the other riders then?

Peter S is having problems with the BSF,so asked me to post the line-ups Slangerup Speedway Klub Grzegorz Zengota Mikkel Michelsen Kenneth Kruse Hansen Nicki Barrett Anton Rosen Holstebro Speedway Klub Robert Kosciecha Aleksandr Lokajev Andriej Karpow Jonas B Andersen Nikolaj Busk Jakobsen