A couple of years ago, we took a young lad who had never seen speedway before and he absolutely loved it. He pestered his parents to come again, but speedway being speedway, we closed down at the height of summer and didn't have a meeting for weeks (sound familiar?). In the meantime he was taken to the football for his first match and now never misses a game and has no wish to return to the speedway. For us two, after following the Lions (and Long Eaton during the fallow years) home and away for 57 years, we got fed up with sitting watching nothing happening during endless breaks, whilst listening to a guy waffling on about Blackbird Road, which means nothing to potential new supporters. We've got 10 Grandchildren and have tried to introduce them to the sport i've loved for decades, but they all say the same thing, the racing is great, but the rest is boring and they have no interest in returning. I still love my speedway with a passion, but i'm not missing going if i'm honest. We'll still stream the meetings though.
Sorry i almost forgot to mention the weekly treat at Leicester of listening to Glad all over by the Dave Clark Five, followed by Que Sera, Sera..... come on kids, sing along...