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Post by Genghis on Jun 27, 2008 23:03:28 GMT
Fantastic racing tonight, but the golem Flint is a fucking flapperjack. Reading were robbed of a place in the final.
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Post by admin on Jun 27, 2008 23:13:35 GMT
Fantastic racing tonight, but the golem Flint is a fucking flapperjack. Reading were robbed of a place in the final. When I heard about the furore over that semi-final I immediately wondered if the golem Flint was referee. There was a similar instance in a Newcastle versus Workington fixture last season - everyone in the stadium knew that the Workington rider (Nieminen, I think) had pipped Raun to the line in Ht 4, but Flint gave it to Raun. Why? Because he could, I guess. |
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Post by marron on Jun 29, 2008 15:56:40 GMT
Posted this on Bears forum, my views on the meeting:
A very good meeting with very good racing and controversy.
Very bad traffic on the way down to Somerset, came on the radio that the police were retrieving stone pillars from the road after a crash and that messed up the 'M' something for 4 junctions long.
Havvy never got there until late but that was due to the traffic being so bad. He wasn't on the pace at all whilst Ty was once again very impressive. Maybe Havvy blew his engine in Heat 15 on Thursday and was on his 2nd bike, although i still would expect him to do better than 3 points. But nevermind, we beat the Geordies.
The Reading vs Somerset semi brought one of the worst decisions i have ever seen. Lemmo beat Doyle by a bike length (and some) and the referee gave 3rd to Doyle! With Ostergaard winning the race, whoever came 3rd would have put his team through but the ref fixed it in Somerset's favour. Even the Somerset fans on the back straight were going mental thinking they had thrown it away, until of course the announcer gets on the mic and says Somerset were through!
The final was a great race, everyone wanting Workington to win because of the previous fixed decision, and when Kramer was pushed wide everyone started cheering.........and kept cheering when Workington won.
The presentation saw everyone (including me) rightly booing the Somerset riders and cheering both the Reading and Workington lads. Somerset should have owned upto the fact they shouldnt have been there.
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