- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Retro Speedway; 1st edition (1 Nov 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0954833619
- ISBN-13: 978-0954833619
- Product Dimensions: 24.6 x 17 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 469,792 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Confessions provides a fascinating insight into British speedway, revealing the behind-the-scenes rows and rifts that have blighted the sport and, amid growing disillusionment, caused leading promoter John Berry to quit speedway altogether as crowds dwindled, sponsors disappeared and the sport slumped in the late 80s. Throughout the 1970s and 80s, John Berry gained a hard earned reputation as one of the most successful and forthright promoters British speedway has ever known. In 1969, he revived Ipswich Speedway, just as speedway was about to enjoy another boom period. JB rapidly established the 'Witches' as a leading force in the top flight and also had three different spells as team manager to England and led the British Lions on tour to Australia. He reveals what it took to make a big success of Ipswich, offering his insightful view of local legends and international superstars alike. JB also shines rare light on his own personal experiences.He reflects with brutal honesty on his schoolboy battles with authority, when his characteristic stubbornness and pursuit of justice were first in evidence, and his struggle to balance his devotion to business with steady relationships away from the track. And in the most controversial speedway book ever written, Berry also admits - for the first time - how, and why, he once 'fixed' the result of an international race.
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Best speedway book ever!,
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This review is from: Confessions of a Speedway Promoter: John Berry Reveals the Truth About Speedway in the 70s and 80s (Paperback)
I've got just about every book published on speedway in the past 40-odd years and I can honestly say that this is the best!For sheer honesty and the insightful way John Berry takes you behind the scenes on how the sport is run, it's really gripping stuff. And it's quite sad in places, too. His chapter on the late Billy Sanders will make everyone who reads it think, and John's own regrets come across here, too. Berry was always known as a rather arrogant man, albeit one of the top promoters in the 70s and early 80s, but he has really turned the micoscope on himself as well as others. Now 60 and enjoying retirement in Australia, he has clearly had time to reflect on his own attitude to life and others and he must be applauded for doing so. At least his stinging honesty extends to himself. Berry writes very well but the book also benefits from more than 200 great pictures that will not only bring back brilliant memories for fans of Ipswich Speedway (where Berry promoted), but speedway folk everywhere. The 70s and 80s are perfectly captured and anyone who went to meetings in that period will easily relate to, and enjoy, Confessions of a Speedway Promoter. I strongly recommend it, and congratulations to John Berry on what I'm sure should become a speedway bestseller.
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This review is from: Confessions of a Speedway Promoter: John Berry Reveals the Truth About Speedway in the 70s and 80s (Paperback)
Ipswich Evening Star"Berry moved speedway promoting to a new dimension and he has achieved the same result with this book. Just like the man, it is honest, pulls no punches and will be a huge success." East Anglian Daily Times Speedway Star Magazine Backtrack Retro Magazine
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