iris123 Posted January 17, 2016 Report Share Posted January 17, 2016 (edited) Think you are right.It is counter-productive and easily spotted and that is why I guess the Beeb nominate the candidates and probably fix the thing themselves now Edited January 17, 2016 by iris123 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_Jones Posted January 17, 2016 Report Share Posted January 17, 2016 Just thinking about all this again, wasn't there one year when an angler actually got most votes as the result of a campaign by the Angling Times and the BBC said this was against the rules and discounted his votes? Bob Nudd in 1991. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norbold Posted January 17, 2016 Report Share Posted January 17, 2016 That's the one, Alan. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
van wolfswinkel Posted January 18, 2016 Report Share Posted January 18, 2016 Going from memory here (dangerous), but I think that Briggo’s second place in the Sports Personality of the Year competition was a result of a campaign in the Speedway Star. I believe it was an effort to promote the sport on national television. I recall reading an article in the Daily Mirror written by a sportswriter named Sam Leitch attempting to expose the vote as a farce maintaining that most of the general public had never heard of this bloke named Barry Bloggs (sic). @Mad Moose. as a South East London boy I also supported the 'amlet as well as New Cross in my younger days. Cant be many New Cross fans left...quite a few Amlet fans around, over 2000 there on Saturday! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsloes 1928 nearly Posted January 18, 2016 Report Share Posted January 18, 2016 Cant be many New Cross fans left...quite a few Amlet fans around, over 2000 there on Saturday! Yes I saw that Dulwich H. got a great crowd at the weekend! Good stuff! I'm after some details of a game I went to at the old Champion Hill in the very early '70s... It was a charity/showbiz game and from distant memory involved some big rock stars of the time... I don't suppose you can fill in the blank spaces can you?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
van wolfswinkel Posted January 18, 2016 Report Share Posted January 18, 2016 Yes I saw that Dulwich H. got a great crowd at the weekend! Good stuff! I'm after some details of a game I went to at the old Champion Hill in the very early '70s... It was a charity/showbiz game and from distant memory involved some big rock stars of the time... I don't suppose you can fill in the blank spaces can you?! No...moved to Swindon in '67, when they shared Champion Hill with those posh blokes called Corinthian Casuals, and haven't been to an Amlet game since at the new ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Celticman Posted December 20, 2019 Report Share Posted December 20, 2019 (edited) On 1/9/2016 at 12:16 PM, iris123 said: Think in 1964 he finished behind Mary Rand......but if I use a quote from Parsloes from a few years back in answer to the rigged vote Mary Bignal-Rand was England's greatest ever female track and field athlete. She won multiple Olympic medals including gold and set world records in the long and triple jump, the latter record lasting 22 years. She was known as the Golden Girl for her success and blonde good looks. I used to compete at discus and shot put and met her at an indoor meet. She was a knockout looks and personality wise Edited December 20, 2019 by Celticman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E I Addio Posted December 20, 2019 Report Share Posted December 20, 2019 On 1/10/2016 at 8:25 PM, Split said: Going from memory here (dangerous), but I think that Briggo’s second place in the Sports Personality of the Year competition was a result of a campaign in the Speedway Star. I believe it was an effort to promote the sport on national television. I recall reading an article in the Daily Mirror written by a sportswriter named Sam Leitch attempting to expose the vote as a farce maintaining that most of the general public had never heard of this bloke named Barry Bloggs (sic). @Mad Moose. as a South East London boy I also supported the 'amlet as well as New Cross in my younger days. Yes that was a nasty article by a nasty man. I think the article was actually in the Sunday Mirror and the farce was that Leitch was trying to say that most of the public had never heard of Speedway, when it was the Sunday Mirror that sponsored the World Final and contained a regular Weekly column on Speedway by Don Clarke. The thrust of Sam Lietchs article was that Speedway was not a proper sport. Subsequently there was a strong reaction from Speedway fans and Briggo went to lunch with Leitch explaining what was involved in riding a Speedway bike , and Leith wrote another article more or less climbing down, no doubt in part because the editors were concerned at maintaining the readership of Speedway fans in a sport that was much more popular then than it is today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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