cityrebel

I was there that day, it certainly was a surreal moment. The golden boy couldn't believe the crowds reaction.

I also went to the two at Hackney Sid, plus one each at both Bradford and Coventry.

That's why i went to Scunny on Sunday. My 2nd live meeting of the year. I'm hoping for 3rd!

To be honest with you Steve, I'm a live sport man. I don't really enjoy watching televised Football or Speedway. I'd much rather go and watch a live event. If the GP was held at a decent track like the NSS, I'd probably go. After 10 visits to the poor temporary track at Cardiff, i decided I'd had enough.

I tape every GP Steve, but i never get round to watching them. It's the concept that bores me. I haven't watched any of the streamed Polish League meetings. I've only ever been interested in domestic league racing. I've been to plenty of overseas speedway venues in the past, but i knocked that on the head years ago. Prehaps it's because I'm too stuck in my ways, like a lot of speedway fans.

Yes it was. One of the highlights of my young speedway life, was watching Preben Rosenkilde beating Olsen at West Ham, i loved it!

Life's all about opinions Steve. I find the GP's boring, but i appreciate a lot of people love them. I really enjoyed attending the British youth championship at Scunthorpe last Sunday, but some fans wouldn't cross the road to watch it.

It was always Mauger for me. I hated his shenanigans at the starting gate, rolling backwards and forwards all the time. Although when i went with the great man on his farewell tour to Poland, i did feel a bit guilty!

I've never liked the GP's, but this is probably an age thing. I miss the excitement and drama of a one off world final. Lady luck sometimes played a massive part on the outcome. GP's can never replicate that.

I used to have a Wally Loak taped recording of the 1967 West Ham v Coventry KOC final. It was facinating to hear Dave Lanning trying to calm down an irate Custom House crowd!

They're all full of s**t, whatever colour they wear.

Build, build, build is the government motto.

Speedway as a 'professional' sport has produced so many farces over years, it would make a great soap opera. Having no team to support helps me deal with this. I've had plenty of disappointments with the sport, i am now battle hardened to it. I still enjoy the racing and the social side of it, Scunthorpe on Sunday was a perfect example of this. Speedway isn't worth taking too seriously.

All this stuff is in the past, it's the future we should be worrying about.

The chance of a few meetings seems to be getting less Eddie. If Scunny was a pilot event that seemed to run very well, why not hold the next round at a track that can cater for fans. We have to try and get back to some kind of normality. This bug could be here for the long run. We might have to learn to live with it.

I had a dose of speedway at Scunthorpe on sunday. It did me the world of good.

Behind closed doors. Our liberty lasted for one meeting. If it's not safe at Leicester, don't run it there.

Scunthorpe, Redcar and Lydd have already run amateur meetings. Hopefully Scunny have shown what can be done. I feel more at risk in a supermarket than i did last Sunday.

How many promoters in this country really want to run meetings, not many I'd say. Rob Godfrey had to jump through hoops to run at Scunny on sunday, and what a great day out it was. Stock car promoters have shown what can be done. Where there's a will, there's a way.

I'm one of the 'Gods' biggest critics, but fair play to him for lobbying the council into letting him stage an excellent meeting at Scunny yesterday. Most of the promoters in this country are still hiding behind their sofas.

Is this the same bloke who has sat back and watched his track deteriorate until it bordered on being dangerous. Seen his fan base shrink before his eyes and overseen his clubs demotion to the second tier of British speedway.

It's been a marriage made in heaven since 1928, but speedway's relationship with greyhound racing couldn't be more precarious.

The rot started in the early 1980's, when the likes of Mauger and Olsen started to miss big meetings over here, in favour of some lucrative overseas bookings.

About 450 i think. It was a decent well run meeting. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Woffinden's world title wins have done nothing to drag British speedway out of the doldrums. The odd TV interview and the occasional mention in the tabloids is all that was achieved. Some might credit him with pushing the current youth project, but not riding in the country of his birth has definitely hindered the sport.