Barry Briggs the speedway rider from New Zealand came second in the early 60's.
The Speedway Star organized a fan campaign for speedway fans to vote for him and it almost succeeded.
Just goes to show how an orchestrated campaign nearly paid off.
This mornings BBC Sports News verdict on the game was that it was a disappointing result. eeerrmmmm, I wasn't disappointed, such a strange thing to say.
Apologies if posted else where, but worth a view if not
https://news.sky.com/video/watch-moment-manchester-city-player-met-elton-john-after-fa-cup-win-12896312
I think your being a bit hard on Liverpool, after all, it will be 6 Premier League titles that they would have shared with us over the last six seasons come the season end, a truly remarkable feat by the Premier League's inform side.
I used to leave my Bike in the backyards of the houses baking on to the Kippax car Park in the early to mid 60's. I think it was a shilling, you got a metal disc with a number on it and they fastened another metal disc to your bike with the same number on it. After the game you handed you disc...
As expected, local BBC North West News makes no mention of our game last night at 6:30, plenty of content about the Liverpool area though (first 3 reports). Don't know why they don't rebrand it as Merseyside today or something similar.
Is she the one that got the previous Ladies England Manager the push when she claimed she had been subjected to Racism by the Manager and threated court action. The rest of the team supported the Manager but the FA decided he had to go. Then the FA made a reported out of court settlement of £25,000.
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