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"The Interesting Fact That Isn't"???

Or he might have been playing darts?

So, a totally needless and wasted thread, eh?

But nothing "official"...

Not quite the same, but Larry Ross rode in White City's first 1976 revival meeting - and the last in 1983...

I would certainly hope so! For a while, it was done via the SGP website, and then switched to YouTube, so I have no reason to suspect that we would be deprived of it this year.

How dare you omit Nigel Boocock from that list! How about these figures from his peak years for a 10.46 average at the County Ground? Seven appearances unbeaten, with a further seven where he only dropped a point. 1965 - BL - 12 point max 1966 - BL - 12 point max 1966 - England v Russia - 16+1 from 6 1966 - Challenge - 10+1 from 4 1967 - 4TT - 10 from 4 1967 - WCQR - 15 point max 1967 - BL - 12 point max 1967 - England v Sweden - 9 from 6 (boo, hiss...) 1967 - Westernapolis - 10 from 5 1968 - Challenge - 12 point max 1968 - BL - 11 from 5 (with a retirement) 1968 - Best Pairs - 11 from 5 (with a retirement) 1969 - Challenge - 10+1 from 4 1969 - BL - 15 point max 1969 - Westernapolis - 14 from 5 (1st) 1969 - Best Pairs - 14 from 5 1969 - Triangular Tournament - 6+1 from 4 1969 - Guest - 10 from 4) 1970 - Jack Unstead Memorial - 13 from 5 (3rd) 1970 - Westernapolis - 14 from 5 (1st) 1970 - GB v Sweden - 16+1 from 6 1970 - Guest - 15 point max

When I were a lad, we actually went down to Southampton and spent the weekend at Barry and June's...

Nae... I wasnae born then...

Damn you!!!

As I tell everyone - I'm not old, I just look it and feel it!

You think it's weird that a wonderful person dies, they deserve respect? That's what's wrong with the world today! Who cares if you didn't like their style of commentary?

All you old farts...

Nothing to boast about - a lot of us were!!!

We had the glass there, but I was always a Pit Bend Loony!

I may hold the forum record for the YOUNGEST speedway fan; I was three weeks old when I first went to Plough Lane in August 1962...

Fortunately, the vast majority of us are not... I for one have missed you.

I am in total shock... Nigel was a good friend, and a lovely, lovely guy. Of course, he covered darts as well as speedway, but speedway was his main love. It's not often you are lucky enough to get a true fan as a great commentator, but we were very fortunate. R.I.P. mate...

I only went to Halifax once, but I remember peering over the fence on turn one, and the banking made me think it was a huge wall-of-death! The racing when I went wasn't brilliant either, but then were crap! We lost 56-22... I used to enjoy my visits to Odsal, and racing was decent.

You asked that question last month, and nobody knows of any...

Must admit, I'd never heard of that! I looked, and it's mentioned here... http://www.guskuhn.net/GKuhn/Wimbledon/WimbledonSpeedway.htm

Well, I believe that "The Throstles" may still be West Brom's "official" nickname. They adopted the name when they moved to The Hawthorns in 1900. However, "The Baggies" also dates back to around the same period, and was used as an unofficial nickname. It was around the 1980's that "The Baggies" seemed to become the most used, possibly because it sounded cooler! Palace changed their nickname thanks to Malcolm Allison when he was manager. He changed their colours, and also the club crest. Instead of showing the original Crystal Palace, he used an Eagle holding a ball (based on the Benfica crest).

Yeah, sounds like it could be a cache issue, or certainly something to do with KIRKYLANE's ipad...

Have you tried clearing the cache/rebooting it? Sometimes the cache can be a problem. Works on my Chromebook and Android phone.

Yeah, he did have a few meetings for Oxford - and Norwich (in the Britannia Shield), which is why i included him.