Midland Red

Would HAVE - please!

Agree with the above 100% Often wondered why Ivan was never knighted for his achievements - compared to a lot of "Sirs" he is well deserving Perhaps a concerted campaign to no.10 would be a good idea?

In 50 years of watching this wonderful sport, Ivan gave me my most memorable occasion - the 1970 World Final victory in Wroclaw which I was fortunate enough to attend His title win with so much stacked against him in the then far off land of Poland was immense and the memory of that meeting will stay with me for ever Thanks, Ivan - with every good wish to you and your family at this even more difficult time

In individual (and team) meetings, the object is to finish first in a race, or as high as possible to gain the most points available But with the 4,3,2,0 scoring in pairs, there is little or no incentive [certainly in the semi-finals and final] to try and win the race, but for both to finish ahead of one opposition rider - as was seen last night, let the leader go and tuck in for 2nd and 3rd and we will "win" - the "spectacle" of a rider/riders trying to catch and overtake the leader is nullified - not great entertainment at what should be the climax of the meeting

Can't be right that 2nd and 3rd beats 1st!

Explain! Please!

Pearson and Tatum, nearly everything is forgiven!

Laguna is in this race! Is that Lily, I wonder!

Sorry, I thought he'd been listening to the commentators!

Will the track "come to the riders" soon?

Where was the smiley then?

Sounds like Sudden Sam has made Adrian and Martin into brothers!

No he wasn't - he finished first by the length of the straight in his first outingBut he's just struggled behind Martin whatshisname Sam?

Who was the announcer last Friday? Was David Hammond on duty on Sunday? I see that Gordon Camwell is still listed on the Bees website - has he come, has he gone, or what?

Do tell us more of this, please!

Do away with start tarts Do away with Peter York Smart outfits for track staff

Think how good you could HAVE been with a brain!

Seen: Craven N Boocock Brett Mountford Ray Wilson Peter Collins L Collins Carter Lee Betts

Spot on, Mr P! Showing the best bits in a weekly show, cutting out all the crap, would highlight what a great sport it is If the promoters, officials and the riders all then pull their weight together to reduce the amount of crap there is, the future could just be a little brighter

Using traditional sandpaper rackets, the World Championship of Ping Pong is a throwback to the early days of table tennis and aims to catapult ping pong into the big league and onto the international television stage. So I guess they will be on 2 valve uprights and wearing black leathers

So, Blayne is now 'Operations Manager'

The newspaper report gives details of some dreadful injuries Let's hope for a full recovery and one that doesn't take too long Thinking of you, Steve

Probably a first - I agree with the poster above

So . . . There was a conspiracy to get Tai to win the WC in order for Tomasz to lose his mega-sponsorship so that Harris could sneak in to next year's series???? I was going to say "you couldn't make it up" but . . .