Whilst a rap on the knuckles was considered a quite sufficient punishment as of course it was only Peterborough those present considered it much more serious that the person concerned failed to buy his round at the bar which cannot be tolerated under any circumstances.
Disappointed but not surprised by the non event of AGM. Panthers doomed for all time to second division , no conclusion of Holdergate. As I think somebody said My conscience is clear or at least I think it is as I am not entirely sure of the concept,
Looks like another. season of second division Speedway . A positive I should think as it looked at one time the Mafia had succeeded in manipulating a closure
Brian Crutcher could match most during that era. I can recall in bygone days BBC Sportsview sent cameras to Wembley for a league meeting between Lions and Wimbledon specially for the race between Crutcher and Tommy Price for Wembley and Moore and Briggs for Wimbledon . Result 5-1 to Wembley
When you look at the make up of these two bodies there seems very little difference between the two. A Rose by any other name you may say , although perhaps a more suitable word than Rose would apply in this case.
The BSPA in its present form arose as the promoters did not like the decisions coming from SCB which was then known as Speedway Control Board.
Whilst clearly money changed hands I think bung is possibly the wrong word for it. What happened seems to have been known from word go and certainly no attempt made to keep it secret, indeed that is the whole basis of the row between Rathbone and Godfrey.