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Were they really two of the greatest races ever seen? Would the similar races in a league match be seen the same way? It was the very fact that they were World Final races in a packed Wembley stadium that made those races stand out through time. For me, possibly the best race I've ever seen was the heat 13 at Belle Vue, when Max Fricke went from last to first while the other 3 riders kept changing positions. The races between Penhall and Olsen/Knudsen never came close to that. But they are the ones that will go down in history. And that is because they were at a Wembley world final. You talk about poor racing at Cardiff, but Harris beating Hancock to win a Grand Prix final was on a par with the Penhall races from Wembley.

I do think it is something of a grey area. People who died with AIDS are always listed as AIDS deaths. People with COVID-19 are listed as COVID-19 deaths. Yet the two contradict each other. AIDS was invariably the underlying health condition rather then the technical cause of death. So, what kills you? The virus or the health condition?

How did you find the passenger lists?

Yeah. I think so. I remember them both crashing on the pits bend and both tumbling along the track.

I was at that meeting. Stood at the back of the stand on the second bend I seem to recall.

The same here. The BT website gives 3 options: Donate monthly fee to NHS, get 2 months free BT Sport or switch to their £10 TV package and get 3 months free BT Sport added on.

That was the day I got Tommy's autograph. He spent the entire main match sitting alone against the wall in the visitor's side of the pits waiting for the second half, and I leaned through the gap at the top and got him to sign my book.

Hi "Steve", May I ask why you felt it neccesary to edit out all of my above quote (which was made when this was still a relatively new story for the UK) except for the last line before referring to me as a "prick". Thanks.

One can but hope. All you normally get is a few random starts, a couple of race finishes and someone falling off!

Decent footage of World Finals prior to 1972 seems very hard to come by. Mainly just Pathe News reports or similar.

Also, a direct quote from Lanning: ""It seems to me that the authorities here in Katowice are making up the rules to suit themselves to get their boys a world title." Yet he's just refused Plech the chance of a re-run.

So maybe debateable (looked to me like Chlinovski's fault - another Penhall/Carter perhaps!), but far from a terrible decision to exclude Chlinovski. I have the video of this meeting somewhere, and Dave Lanning's commentary on it seems confused too and he starts banging on about pro-Polish decisions. Yet he, himself, says that Chlinovski rode Plech into the terracing. If the referee deemed Plech to be innocent, then the decision to give the heat to Collins actually went against Plech, so I don't see why everyone was saying he was pro-Poland. One thing that was amusing in the Wiki page was that eye-witness accounts said it was Plech's own fault. You don't say!

I'm not sure how not ordering a re-run was showing bias towards Poland. It certainly looked to me that Plech was brought off.

Presumably they gave it to Collins as he finished the race behind Chlinovski, who was excluded. Totally unfair to Plech though, as he was bundled off the bike. As you say, with no awarding available, it should have been re-run. Surely the race was never completed, as it ended at the moment Plech was brought off.

If I did, it was certainly before it was a "thing" here. I'm hoping so, too. Particularly with my wife suffering a Dawn of the Dead like existence by working in Aldi.

What I had fitted with the symptoms. I was feverish for a few days and coughing hard for a couple of weeks, as though it would never go away. I also had a period where I was gasping a bit and struggling to breathe. Both me and my wife had it. We also have two teenagers and a toddler in the house, and they didn't seem to catch anything despite fears that the toddler, in particular, would. This also seems to be something that links to it. There is talk on there soon being a test available where people can find out if they've already had it. If that comes about I will certainly take it. It would be interesting to know.

I had a look at Dan Bewley's twitter and see that he posted a video from David Icke. Thinking it would be a right laugh, I thought I'd have a look. Imagine my surprise to discover that Mr Icke was echoing my own experience of having a virus earlier in the year with the exact same symptoms to the letter. Meaning that either this virus has been in the UK longer than reported or there was another, identical virus, going round. I remember at the time thinking that what I had would probably have probably killed my frail mother if she was still around. Does this mean that Tony Blair and George W Bush were alien lizards after all?

What amount would you call a crowd/large gathering? You have to draw the line somewhere.

It will be interesting to see what happens as a result of the Notts Forest owner testing positive for the virus. He was at a match on Friday. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51814887

Depends where you look, I guess. https://www.itv.com/news/2020-02-06/how-does-the-wuhan-coronavirus-compare-to-seasonal-flu/

17,000 a year, on average, die from flu in England. Yeah. Whatever. Who cares? 1 already frail person dies in Reading after testing positive for covid-19 and you can't get bog roll any more.

Where in Germany is it mostly? I'm due to go to the Frankfurt/Heidelberg area.

Although the numbers in UK and Germany are increasing at a more rapid rate than in Honkers. I think it's all probably fairly regionalised at the moment regardless of which country you are in.

Many people will have had this and had it mildly. Those cases might not have been tested, particularly in countries where getting a test is expensive. So the 3.5% is probably a lot higher than reality.