Leicester Hunter

August Bank Holiday Monday 1979. The number of stories about him from Birmingham supporters (and Martin Rogers, who unsuccessfully tried to sell him Reading) would fill a rather large book!

This is just the sort of sad situation which arises when a body of people like the BSPA are all cosy and matey with each other behind closed doors. If they'd have appointed someone like John Berry (his own man if ever there was one) to oversee the running of British Speedway, people like Bowden, Phil Bartlett, Bill Barker, Allen Trump, Nigel Wagstaff and the Hortons wouldn't have been allowed anywhere near the sport. I suppose when it's all over, the usual speeches such as 'we've learnt from this' will be spouted by the management committee, when we all know full well that they won't have done. My deepest sympathies go out to all loyal Plymouth supporters.