I thought Speedway World packed a lot of information into its mere 8 pages. I recall it gave a decent amount of coverage to the SAL and Open-licence teams.
Doesn't mean jack, he still doesn't own the stadium.
I could open a company tomorrow called, for example, NewPooleStadium Ltd but it wouldn't mean I was going to do anything about building it.
It's generally accepted now that many of those huge pre-war crowds were exaggerated. That West Ham example for instance is thought to have been closer to 40,000.
This is painful to read but I guess the former benefits from easy participation at all levels and the latter is all about betting. Speedway offers neither.
Odsal is too big for league speedway with today's crowds. Big meetings will be better served by the purpose-built Belle Vue so I can't see any viable use case for it.
Do you not think if it was that easy someone wouldn't already be running it? Basically, the current owners have no intention of allowing it to be used by any tenant, preferring to see it fall into disrepair.