Terry

Monkey nuts sold from a Invacar. The lucky 50 pence piece.

So sad to hear this. Zenon was one of my first speedway heroes as a kid at Waterden Rd. A spectacular rider and such a nice guy. I still have the yellow NGK Spark plugs cap he handed to me through the bars of the Hackney pits..A treasured possession. RIP Zenon, you will always be Poland's number 1 in my eyes.

Poor old Hughie broke his leg in his own testimonial meeting. How unlucky can you get!

That's right. Thommo took over in 75, up til 81 when he joined Crayford, and Finn Thomsen was skipper for the last three years in the BL.

He did according to Pearson!

And 1982!

Well, at least we weren't last

That's more like it. And you can throw in Lee and Kennett.

Wow, Sayfutdinov has got some cojones on him!

90° in the shade apparently

Yuk, It looks like a transformer. Oh for the days of the Winged Wheel.

Yes that match was the catalyst. Len stormed into the dressing room ready to give the team the blasting of their lives, only to find that they were as upset as he was. As you say it was onwards and upwards from that point on. Losing at home to Cradley at the start of October ended our challenge unfortunately, but after finishing bottom for the previous two seasons it was still a great year.

That 79 match was the only time I recall sections of the crowd turning on Len Silver. It was a depressing year all round, (losing Vic, finishing bottom.) Zenon's World Final performance being the only high point. Weirdly enough, although the Dons did the double over us that year we won the London Cup, and they won it the following year even though the Hawks did the double over them.

So Pludra tops the Polish averages with a perfect 12.00

Leszno will win comfortably but who cares with racing like this!