Writing these off the top of my head, so please be lenient on factuality of content:
- Glenn Parrott & Steve Finch - The Birdmen of Ellesmere Port
- Phil Alderman's broken jaw in '85 from a handlebar that went up inside his helmet while grasstracking (Germany?)
- Eric Monaghan breaking a couple of toes along the back straight fence (did he ride without a boot in subsequent weeks?)
- Narrowly beating Newcastle at home and being battered away in K O Cup in '82 (remembering the Diamonds team of the early eighties, it could have been any season and League or Cup)
- Beating Hackney 50-28 at home and then taking a 5-1 in the first heat away (Dave Morton & Miles Evans) at Waterden Road (1985 K O Cup Semi). Good job really as we lost 49-29 for a narrow aggregate win. These meetings followed on: Thursday at home & Friday away. I'm sure that the Hackeny management implied that Louis Carr's engine was oversized and invoked some rule that it could be impounded for a period of time awaiting measurement, in order to deprive him of it the next night. It was actually measured there and then (somehow) and found to be 493.8 cc
I'm sure there are big holes in the last anecdote, so let me know. In the meantime, I'll try and come up with some more.
