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The irony being, of course, that you hark back to a time when speedway riders had greased back hair, fags hanging out their mouths and wore black leather. Hardly a sign of being a member of mensa, was it?

http://speedwaygp.com/news/article/2949/tai-surgery-date

Ah right. In any case, Tai rode the last two rounds knowing what he needed to do. It was interesting on Polish tv when they interviewed Tai (in English) after he won. The interviewer said to him: "I'll tell you the difference between your championshp and Mark Loram's championship. The difference is YOU were the man to beat."

Tai's GP average was 13.40 Emil's was 12.67. Plus Tai's injuries came in GP's and would have hampered his average through lost points resulting from that. Totally deserving Wotld champion despite injuries to other conteners. Also, he had the highest average and was leading at the time of Emil's injury.

He's 50-1 to finish second. Same odds as Christine Ohuruogu. http://sports.ladbrokes.com/en-gb/Awards/BBC-Sports-Personality/Sports-Personality-of-the-YearAwards/BBC-Sports-Personality/Sports-Personality-of-the-Year-s794

I was just about to give my son his Wheetos this morning as Tai Woffinden was coming on tv. "Do you want your Woffindens," I said, unintentionally. and then it came to me in a flash. Cereal packets! Just like in a movie I saw once with Dennis Quaid in it. We need cereal packets. Get Tai on the box of Wheetos. Get him to advertise them. Give away free cardboard cut-outs of Tai with each packet and collect stick on tatoos inside each pack. "You to can be as fast of Tai Woffinden if you eat your Wheetos." Job done I think. What's Max Clifford up to these days? Oh yeah, so he is....

Kildemand - 8.25 Bachelor - 8.21. I'm tempted to go to this if circummstances allow, and the line-up looks good. You can't help but wonder if this will be the line-up on the night though. Great to see Saturday night speedway back at Blunsdon.

There's much excitement on the BBC Breakfast sofa this morning, because World Speedway Champion Tai Woffinden is coming in, and he's bringing his bike.

Re-tweeted by Tai Woffinden.

I watched the GP with Polish commentary last night. At one point, just after Tai won the title, the commentator reeldd off a list of riders. It went something like this: Mark Loram, Gary Havelock, Michael Lee, Peter Collins, Barry Briggs, Ronnie Moore, Freddie Williams... Not sure what the list was meant to be!

I don't see why they should if it's nothing to do with them. If they made a statement every time they were rubbished by people on here they'd be doing nothing else with their time! If anyone needs to respond it's the people who were firing accusations at Andy Povey. I even saw comments by people on my Facebook wall by people seemingly making violent threats towards him over this and offering their "services". Perhaps a response from the people making accusations is appropriate bearing in mind someone has now said it's all their own fault in the first place, they were warned that the website was causing problems and did nothing about it? After all, that's just another one of the comments on here, and we don't know who the person is making it.

If I'm following this all correctly, it's nothing to do with the BSPA or AP Media but down to the webmaster of the Brummies site, whoever that is. From what I can gather (it's all a bit messy as there is lots of abuse flying around) they have someone new doing their website and it's causing problems with the servers due to bad codes.

You mean there was a perfectly logical and sensible reason for the site being taken down? Well there's a thing.

Anyone who went to that match was given re-admission the following week for £10. Seems fair enough to me. There was a time when any match that got to heat 6 meant re-admission tickets were of no use whatsoever.

I agree. A club's website goes down for a period and it's akin to a public lynching on here. The mind boggles really.

To be fair, I think he actually managed to stay on when he demolished the flower beds!

It's hard to believe, Sidney, but if my memory is serving me correctly I think The Know was actually a major sponsor within Speedway at one time. Nice to know the sport attracts such a high level of businessman isn't it?

Ha ha. You just KNOW that some Poole fans voted for Swindon in this!

Ha ha. Good one. Interesting to see that Rosco has called Matt Ford on his "mind games" of keeping saying Swindon are favourites. http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/sport/speedway/10687265.Rossiter_unfazed_by_Ford_s_fun_and_games/

Maybe because of this. http://www.oddschecker.com/motorsport/speedway/british

I recall that happening to Swindon at Oxford once courtesy of Nielsen and Wigg.

Yes.

The first ever meeting I went to at Swindon was Swindon v Wolves in 1974. At that meeting they announced that Graham Guthrie had died! The presenter that night and for a long time after was called John Sutton I think.

Peter York offends me (but I guess I am one of the pc brigade so no surprise there). He'll do things like shove a microphone in the face of a child in the crowd, ask them something, then take the mickey out of their answer, or just copy what they said in a "thicko" style voice. He may well know his speedway, but he makes constant bad decisions. Like deciding to do a Coventry Bees war cry in the 2007 play-off final while Lee Richardson was being placed into an ambulance with an oxygen mask over his face.

I think you're missing the point. If, as someone suggested, there should be 40 British riders in the Elite League, then pretty much all the British riders in the Premier League would have to ride in the Elite League.