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  1. Humphrey Appleby

    British Riders' Championships

    A 'Football World Championship' was also intermittently held between the English and Scottish FA Cup winners and latterly the league champions between 1876 and 1904. Although I'm not a fan of retrospectively changing the status of something that wasn't recognised as such at the time, the fact is this happened with the early modern Olympics and with first class and particularly test matches in cricket. The first 'Ashes' were nothing of the sort, nor even billed as test matches at the time AFAIK.
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    27 years on

    And one that went out in the second week after a baking task. Sums up speedway somehow...
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    Grosskreutz + the Golden Helmet Controversy

    I lived for a while near Davies Park - which still exists as a Rugby League ground. I had no idea that it had staged speedway.
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    RYE HOUSE

    Not sure what the kart track has to do with the speedway stadium - different stadiums with different leaseholders aren't they? Was racing at the kart track last year so was able to take a look at the speedway track. The stadium itself still seems to be quite good condition, but the track seems to have been buried under tons of soil that has been dumped there. It's possible it may be relatively intact underneath if it were all dug out - difficult to tell.
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    BBC The Apprentice

    That's the fakeness of television for you. I think it's clear from the 'You're Fired' show that most of them are nothing like the caricatures they're put up to be, and they have to play up to certain expectations to have a chance of getting on the show. Of course, a few do have over-inflated opinions of their ability, but I suspect a fair bit of scripting goes on, plus the pressure of time rarely shows any of them in the best light. Although I still watch it, the Apprentice has long since descended into reality entertainment rather than any serious attempt to find a business partner, if it ever was that in the first place.
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    Brian Griffin - RIP

    Yes, had a few chats in the old email forums. Sad news.
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    SGP venues for 2024

    Ah yes, the old 'bahnrekord' or whatever it was called...
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    SGP venues for 2024

    Well, it actually always was about sprints - namely a given number of very short races that form a meeting. What it's never been about is endurance races (apart from occasional 16-lap gimmicks) or timed qualifying.
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    SGP Sprint

    It's all a bit silly isn't it? The SGP already ran sprint races - 23 of them in fact. This is quite aside from the fact that track conditions are going to change between qualifying sessions, so the session you're drawn in is going to influence the selection order for those that don't qualify for the 'sprint race'. Regardless of what's being claimed, it's not going to be the same for everyone. Then there's the 'sprint race' itself. What happens if those four riders wipe each other out before the GP starts? In MotoGP you've got far more riders in a race and you can't get them all on the front grid, so timed qualifying is one of the fairer approaches to lining them up, especially as you can put all the riders in one session where the conditions will be the same for everyone. Speedway - for precisely the reasons it takes place on a much smaller track and only has a small number of riders in each race as a result, has evolved a multi-race all-out sprint format. If you really wanted to add some interest to practice, add some extra wildcards and have them race-off for a couple of places in the GP proper.
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    Australia

    I went and thought it was pretty good meeting. Track looked decently prepared and they got through 44 heats (including support) in under 3.5 hours even with grading. Not sure what expectations are these days at the Australian Championships, but seemed to be a fair crowd there. Sam Ermolenko and David Tapp on commentary, although David Tapp kept committing the cardinal sin of yabbering on rather than giving us the race results...
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    Winter Meetings

    They did. The Winternapolis I think it was called. I went and still have the programme somewhere, although the racing wasn't the best from memory. I think the track was quite damp and a lot of straw had been used to try to soak up the water and make it rideable.
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    Promoters Conference

    Who indeed cares where they hold their corporate jolly at their own expense? The formal business side of things probably more efficiently be held in a conference room somewhere in the Midlands, but a lot of the actual dealings get done in the bar at these sorts of things.
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    Sport related Manslaughter charge

    Don't think there should be any debate. If you deliberately set-out to injure someone, whether the street or a sports arena, you should be subject to the full force of the law. Of course there have to be some exceptions like boxing and some martial arts where that's the point of the sport, and of course there's some sports with grey areas like ice hockey where thinly disguised violence is part of the game. But perhaps it's time for ice hockey to reconsider what sort of sport it wants to be.
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    Sport related Manslaughter charge

    That's why he's been charged with manslaughter rather than murder. I haven't seen the video so not going to make any judgment on the case, but if the intention is to intentionally injure someone and they die as a result, then that is manslaughter.
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    The Crooked House Pub

    And of course where arson is proved, it's always 'kids' who've broken in to burn the place down...
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