Arise, Sir Chris Harris

[lucifer sam]

22 hours ago, PotteringAround said:

I believe there have been proposals to name the stand after Mort, but it was Mort himself, being a modest man, who refused it.

Call it the Alan Wilkinson Stand then.

[IainB]

25 minutes ago, lucifer sam said:

Call it the Alan Wilkinson Stand then.

Great idea!

[AceBelle]

On 1/10/2025 at 7:28 PM, IainB said:

If true, that is a shame... looks like we're stuck with "South Stand".

"John Perrin Stand"?

stop whining about NSS and concentrate on the problems at Leicester IE gaters paradise and the lighting you keep crying about !!

[ONTWOMINUTES]

On 1/10/2025 at 2:18 PM, norbold said:

Which speedway riders have been decorated? I can think of Ronnie Moore, Barry Briggs, Ivan Mauger, Peter Collins and Kelvin Tatum off hand. All MBEs I believe. Any others?

No actually a speedway rider, but involved in speedway - Ronnie Russell got some prestigious award off the queen. 

[ArseBellEnd]

23 minutes ago, AceBelle said:

stop whining about NSS and concentrate on the problems at Leicester IE gaters paradise and the lighting you keep crying about !!

Did you ever attend any meetings at the old Greyhound Stadium?

[tyretrax]

35 minutes ago, ONTWOMINUTES said:

No actually a speedway rider, but involved in speedway - Ronnie Russell got some prestigious award off the queen. 

And not actually anything to do with speedway.

[IainB]

There's been a few mayor's receptions down the years for winning teams... not sure if anybody has received the freedom of a city?

[arnieg]

37 minutes ago, IainB said:

There's been a few mayor's receptions down the years for winning teams... not sure if anybody has received the freedom of a city?

Tedious waste of time, the only council meetings I ever missed. Main purpose is so Peter Soulsby (or local equivalent) can get photographed with Gary Lineker or David Attenborough.

[norbold]

1 hour ago, IainB said:

There's been a few mayor's receptions down the years for winning teams... not sure if anybody has received the freedom of a city?

Ove Fundin received the freedom of Norwich.

[IainB]

1 hour ago, arnieg said:

Tedious waste of time, the only council meetings I ever missed. Main purpose is so Peter Soulsby (or local equivalent) can get photographed with Gary Lineker or David Attenborough.

Soulsby will love that he's been mentioned on this forum lol

[AceBelle]

15 hours ago, ArseBellEnd said:

Did you ever attend any meetings at the old Greyhound Stadium?

Plenty Jason Crump was the master around there 😜 and we never had a blank canvas to design the place but when we did have a blank canvas we certainly got it right and with decent lighting 🤣 go and change the light bulbs now please 🤣🤣

Edited 22 hours ago by AceBelle

[Hamish McRaker]

Well the honours system is completely outdated, no longer appropriate and a relic of long-gone days when Britain had an Empire. 

Hopefully this has provided a bit of harmless amusement, whilst we wait for Birmingham and Oxford to finalise their teams.

Maybe like Geoffrey Boycott until the foolish Theresa May (confirming what a joke the system is) actually awarded him one, Chris Harris could just become popularly called "Sir Bomber"

[GM95]

On 1/9/2025 at 6:50 PM, Daniel Smith said:

Should be Sir Tai Woffinden before anyone else 

A guy who couldn’t be bothered to ride in British Finals and turned his back on Team GB? Behave

[SaddlebowRoad]

10 hours ago, GM95 said:

A guy who couldn’t be bothered to ride in British Finals and turned his back on Team GB? Behave

but who also won multiple wc's and helped revolutionise team gb and turn it into a winning side 

[Dave Jones]

46 minutes ago, SaddlebowRoad said:

but who also won multiple wc's and helped revolutionise team gb and turn it into a winning side 

He's also a bit of a "thug" who has very little respect for others,he is just one of several successful sportsmen who show total disregard for the rules & the people involved in the sport that gives them their living.

Ronnie O'sullivan & Max Verstappen are two more examples.

[GM95]

Won a couple of world championships then turned his back on the UK. Has shown many times he has little respect for others and thinks he is above everyone.