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A clip up of the tributes paid to Nigel Pearson on talkSport on Saturday, from 16:30 https://podfollow.com/1476734813/episode/80a94b4bfce3743a0ecf96a702608d23621c712a/view

Was announced during the season launch that there will be extra analysis this season during the Eurosport ad breaks on Discovery+

I think the special one mentioned that the tractor had broken down during the afternoon or something... I think they had trouble with the tractor last season, but it couldn't have been predicted

Rob must be going round his mams for tea.

Good point, the track had dried out and slickened off by that point, probably more to do with it than any handbags

I assume that this pathetic promotion of tonight's meeting against the current league Champions is down to the tragic death of Nigel Pearson http://www.leicesterspeedway.com/news.php?extend.31896.1 "LEICESTER host reigning champions Poole at the Paul Chapman & Sons Arena on Easter Saturday with a 7pm start. Team news is as follows: LEICESTER: Nick Morris, Connor Mountain, Kyle Howarth, Dan Thompson, Richie Worrall, Anders Rowe, Joe Thompson. POOLE: Steve Worrall, Zach Cook, Richard Lawson, Ben Cook, Danny King, Drew Kemp, Nathan Ablitt." It just shows what a huge loss he's going to be to the sport that nobody else involved with the club can come up with any words to promote the meeting on their own website!

The problem yesterday was not the twins, it was the capitulation of the top order

There's just been a lovely tribute to Nigel on Talksport by Ian Danter. https://talksport.com/radio/schedule/ 10:50 am

I was genuinely shocked by the news when I heard it announced on TalkSport last night while travelling back from Scunny. While obviously tragic for his family and friends, it's a pretty dark day for Speedway also. Nigel Pearson had Speedway running through his veins, fan, announcer, presenter, journalist, promoter and most notably commentator and press officer/agent, he'd pretty much done it all on "our side of the fence". He never passed up an opportunity to promote our sport... I was listening to one of his latest projects the other day, the British Speedway podcast and it was coverage of him compering the British Speedway season launch at Belle Vue and he was so positive and I was thinking to myself why are you so bloody positive all the time! But of course that was his job, he knew not everything in the sport was rosy but never really dwelt on it too much. You only have to do a scroll through Twitter to see how highly thought of he was throughout sport in general with some pretty high profile people and organisations expressing their shock and sadness, not so many from the Speedway fraternity I notice, hopefully that'll change when people get to hear this tragic news. The Darts community seem to have been hit pretty hard by it. Obviously most of us on here will remember Nigel for his Speedway commentary, while not everybody's cup of tea, I absolutely loved his commentary style and the "double act" he built with Kelvin Tatum. He was able to inject some enthusiasm and entertainment into even the dullest of races and meetings and let's face it there were a lot of them. He was the modern day "voice of Speedway" with his modern day commentary style and the natural successor to Dave Lanning. For me he'd done the most to promote and elevate our sport in the last 20 years, is irreplaceable and will be deeply missed. RIP Nige https://talksport.com/football/1087140/nigel-pearson-talksport-passes-away/ https://twitter.com/adam_ellis299/status/1301242626230890496

And do they mean Eurosport UK?

We'll see...

SCUNTHORPE: Ryan Douglas, Simon Lambert, Jordan Palin, Jake Allen, Tero Aarnio, Ryan Kinsley, Zaine Kennedy.LEICESTER: Nick Morris, Connor Mountain, Dan Thompson, Richie Worrall, Kyle Howarth, Anders Rowe, Joe Thompson.

I'm sure it was

er, No

Don't Poland run on some of those BH Monday's? So, commercially it should probably be the other way around as the CL has more teams in it they should be running BH Monday's and PL on a Good Friday

Premiership loses out again... Premier adjective first in importance, order, or position; leading.

Of course... why on earth would you want to run against your local rivals on what has historically been the day that attracts your biggest crowd of the year because Poole, Scunthorpe, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Redcar are riding. The tail wagging the dog again. Absolute total commercial madness!!!

Sounds like they're reaching for the panic button already

Well, your Brummies certainly won't

I thought Ippo always used to run on Good Friday?

Didn't they also shaft Lakeside?

It's a shame BSN aren't showing the Oxford match tonight. I would have hoped that as soon as it was announced as a sell out that they may have covered one of the few good news story's from our Sport in the last few years

I'm using TV Bro on Android TV... works a treat

We'll see... this is Eurosport we are talking about

I don't think they've actually said that have they? They say Eurosport 2 & Discovery+, which you can read any number of different ways. Like when Sky Sports said they would show all the GP's on Sky Sports and then tucked a number of them away on the red button