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34 minutes ago, ProudtobeaBrummie said:

Does speedway have any a list or b list supporters ? The only ones i have heard of is mark webber and scott mitchell 

At the risk of sounding conceited, I was considered a "celeb"! Like my good friend Scott Mitchell, I played darts professionally. While I - unlike Scott - never managed to win a World title, I was third in the PDC World Championship, and am a former World No. 1.

To be honest, it really doesn't seem like there have been too many really famous celebrity speedway fans over the years. Not sure, but I believe that DJ David Hamilton was actually a speedway supporter in addition to his presenting job.

Steve

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Ex Footballers Graeme Stuart & Paul Scholes are speedway fans as is TT hero John McGuinness and few others from the bike racing fraternity 

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39 minutes ago, chunky said:

At the risk of sounding conceited, I was considered a "celeb"! Like my good friend Scott Mitchell, I played darts professionally. While I - unlike Scott - never managed to win a World title, I was third in the PDC World Championship, and am a former World No. 1.

To be honest, it really doesn't seem like there have been too many really famous celebrity speedway fans over the years. Not sure, but I believe that DJ David Hamilton was actually a speedway supporter in addition to his presenting job.

Steve

oh wow so i am guessing you are Mr steve Brown the american darts player a little before my time but i have met you before at the uk open bolton  around 2004 ish i used the go with my pal Davis Platt {babyface} when he was on the tour.

Yes i would count you as a celebrity pal for sure..

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3 hours ago, chunky said:

At the risk of sounding conceited, I was considered a "celeb"! Like my good friend Scott Mitchell, I played darts professionally. While I - unlike Scott - never managed to win a World title, I was third in the PDC World Championship, and am a former World No. 1.

To be honest, it really doesn't seem like there have been too many really famous celebrity speedway fans over the years. Not sure, but I believe that DJ David Hamilton was actually a speedway supporter in addition to his presenting job.

Steve

Remember you from the old speedway email group.. never realised you were on here.  Nice to see.

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3 hours ago, ProudtobeaBrummie said:

oh wow so i am guessing you are Mr steve Brown the american darts player a little before my time but i have met you before at the uk open bolton  around 2004 ish i used the go with my pal Davis Platt {babyface} when he was on the tour.

Yes i would count you as a celebrity pal for sure..

Before your time?  I'm not THAT bloody old!  :mad:  If you look at the fact that I always sign my posts as "Steve", frequently mention that I am not in the UK anymore, and the fact that I sometimes talk about darts, I thought that MIGHT have been a clue! :lol:  That was the first UK Open in 2003; the only one I qualified for.  My dad passed away a couple of months after that, and I dropped out of the PDC.

Do you remember me playing David in the World Championship?  I am friends with him on FB, and we chat occasionally.

Steve

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1 hour ago, The Doctor... said:

Remember you from the old speedway email group.. never realised you were on here.  Nice to see.

Oh yeah, the old Yahoo! group...  I joined the BSF around the same time, and have been a regular - if not prolific - poster here.  Most of the time I am on the "Years Gone By" section, but now I can get the live streams in the US again, I have been more active in the GP section.

Steve

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51 minutes ago, iris123 said:

I was mooching through a 'Tooting' group on Facebook as a lot of my family are on there and there was talk about Jimmy White and someone mentioned that they used to go to Wimbledon speedway with him

Again, not sure he was a "fan", but I remember him being down at Plough Lane on more than one occasion.

Steve

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8 hours ago, chunky said:

At the risk of sounding conceited, I was considered a "celeb"! Like my good friend Scott Mitchell, I played darts professionally. While I - unlike Scott - never managed to win a World title, I was third in the PDC World Championship, and am a former World No. 1.

To be honest, it really doesn't seem like there have been too many really famous celebrity speedway fans over the years. Not sure, but I believe that DJ David Hamilton was actually a speedway supporter in addition to his presenting job.

Steve

DIDDY David still subscribes to Speedway Star. Ex-Man U and England star Paul Scholes (what a player!) often seen at Belle Vue.

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5 hours ago, iris123 said:

I was mooching through a 'Tooting' group on Facebook as a lot of my family are on there and there was talk about Jimmy White and someone mentioned that they used to go to Wimbledon speedway with him

In the 70's, the pop group Mud were photographed by SS at Wimbledon, the picture Was a colour back page from memory. Was that just a promotional shoot or were they fans ?

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6 hours ago, chunky said:

Before your time?  I'm not THAT bloody old!  :mad:  If you look at the fact that I always sign my posts as "Steve", frequently mention that I am not in the UK anymore, and the fact that I sometimes talk about darts, I thought that MIGHT have been a clue! :lol:  That was the first UK Open in 2003; the only one I qualified for.  My dad passed away a couple of months after that, and I dropped out of the PDC.

Do you remember me playing David in the World Championship?  I am friends with him on FB, and we chat occasionally.

Steve

Yes i do Steve you beat him in the first round . That was Daves first ever offical PDC match he won the chance to play in the worlds in through a competition in the daily star then continued after that that for a few years as you probably know he has moved to Australia now but still playing darts and qualified for the worlds the last couple of years . Met some fantastic people and some great characters in and around the darts world there would often be a late night card school in the hotel for a few quid .  

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6 hours ago, MARK246 said:

In the 70's, the pop group Mud were photographed by SS at Wimbledon, the picture Was a colour back page from memory. Was that just a promotional shoot or were they fans ?

At least one of them did.Knocked on his door with a mate on our way to school one morning.He was probably on tour or something and all we got was to meet his missus!!

Marc Bolan also lived nearby,supposedly.On the same Tooting group someone was asking if anyone went to school with his or remembers him or was it all wrong that he grew up in tooting.

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14 hours ago, chunky said:

At the risk of sounding conceited, I was considered a "celeb"! Like my good friend Scott Mitchell, I played darts professionally. While I - unlike Scott - never managed to win a World title, I was third in the PDC World Championship, and am a former World No. 1.

To be honest, it really doesn't seem like there have been too many really famous celebrity speedway fans over the years. Not sure, but I believe that DJ David Hamilton was actually a speedway supporter in addition to his presenting job.

Steve

and of course one of the loudest of the 'first bend loonies' at Wimbledon :D

Jimmy White was at Wimbledon now and again, but never seemed to move away from the bar at the top of the grandstand, doubt he was there for the racing.

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