Yes I was little disappointed that Bernie Persson did not enjoy his time at Sheffield, and I thought he did okay.
I remember Dave Morton leaving Hackney and Sheffield wanting him then, but there was a 3 way swap mooted Dave Morton to Sheffield, Finn Thomsen to Hackney and Doug Wyer to Wolvehampton, no way were Sheffield going to let Doug Wyer go, so swap deal with Thomsen and Morton happened.
Have to say what an excellent read, and looking forward to the next issue, wonder who will feautre in the next issue.
If you click onto the backtrack info and subs then onto offers, you then click onto the Malcolm Simmons picture and it comes up with the forward from Malcolm himself, read through that it sounds sensational.
From what I can make uot it is out sometime this month.
Mark Fiora, Brett Saunders, Troy Butler, Mick Poole, Jason Crump, Phil Crump, Neil Street, Robbie Foy, Steve Regling, John Boulger, Robbie Blackadder, Carl Shields, Ben Shields, Ron Henderson, Rob Dole, Gary Gugliemi, Billy Saunders, Tony Boyle, John Titman, Mick Farrell and Steve Koppe, just a few names to be going on with.
When at Sheffield Craig Pendlebury was Bernie's race partner, they appeared to team all the time, gaining 5-1 on numerous occasion's, the thing was that Bernie was a far better team rider than Craig, and there was a rumour, and I stress a rumour that Bernie had hold of Craig, and told him so.
The following week, Bernie was no longer riding alongside Craig, that was given to Reg Wilson.
Must say that although we only had Berine at the twlight of his career, you could still tell that he was a class act.
If I remember rightly he was a Long track specialist, who had his first dabble at speedway with Sheffield.
I did think that if he had stuck at it he would have made a decent second string.