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But that was a "cool" name! Look at all the youngsters that it attracted to the sport!

Yeah, but that's not why football was better back then. It's the quality of the footage and extra camera angles that makes watching modern sport (particularly speedway) so wonderful. The reason football was better back then is because it was played by men. No playing for penalties, diving, playing balls back to the keeper, reluctance to attack and take on defenders, and general niggly crap... I watch old matches on YouTube regularly.

It certainly seems that Oxford are back this year! There are a lot of rumours - mostly negative - about what us happening at Swindon, but apparently, they are planning on 2023.

Ah, another one just sprang to mind! Wiggy, 1983 (Cradley), 1985, 86, and 89 (Oxford).

I liked the way that Steve was thinking, but the way you worded it, i figured it was as a rider. There are several names that immediately sprang to mind, but they all had 3!

Not so much with the TV, but I watch a lot of stuff on YouTube; either with no sound, or music playing.

I was going to say that (play with trains, actually!) but I thought better of it!

Mauger is one...

Shocking thought, I know, but perhaps they wanted to PROMOTE the sport!

And then you complain that you're bored!

Do you have one that works on blu???

So your TV doesn't have a mute button???

Oxford are back... Not just speedway, though. Taking the First Division clubs in 1965-66, we have lost Filbert Street, White Hart Lane, Boleyn Ground, Highbury, Roker Park, and County Ground. In Division 2, we have lost Maine Rd, The Dell, Highfield Rd, Leeds Rd, Millmoor, Baseball Ground, Burnden Park, Gigg Lane, Ninian Park, and Ayresome Park. It's called "progress" (or so they claim).

Worse than that, I don't understand why people REFUSE to watch it on TV or online. Yet they claim to be speedway "fans".

Sad news - and still so young. He was only 64. R.I.P.

Eexactly how I saw them too...

I feel bad for you. You never got to try the pork and stuffing sarnies, and pork scratchings from Cradley!

If I were you, I'd start a New, New, Original German Tracks thread...

The problem, John, is that you have admitted yourself that you lost interest in speedway in the 1950's. Since then, while you have had an "association", you have had very little interest or knowledge. If you concentrate on the period about which you DO possess interest and knowledge, it would be so much better for EVERYONE, not least yourself.

ARE YOU SAYING THAT WE'RE NOT NORMAL???

Any offers, anyone?

I've still got his autograph upstairs...

So, what you are saying in fact, is that SOMEONE should have known that West Ham was not the biggest track?

You are correct! I actually had no idea - it was a little before my time! It was 586 yards... Thanks.

If you look back a page, you will see that it was 440 yards. Nowhere near the biggest ever; that was Crewe at 470 yards. Did you know there was a track at Crewe?