- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Football World (17 Nov 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0955117615
- ISBN-13: 978-0955117619
- Product Dimensions: 24.6 x 16.8 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 559,595 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Following his acclaimed first book, "Confessions of a Speedway Promoter in 2004", former England and Ipswich team manager and promoter John Berry is back with another action-packed, no-nonsense look back at speedway and the colourful characters who made the 70s & 80s such a special era in the history of the sport...Supporters from every track in Britain and beyond will enjoy this highly entertaining journey back through the last golden era in speedway's stormy history as Berry applies his typical acid wit and wry observations to a whole host of interesting subjects. From rating the different tracks and stadia of his generation, to lifting the lid on some of the sport's top names and what they were really like to deal with, JB is onto another winner with this evocative memory-jerker.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A good follow up to the original confessions book but I feel in this book John has held back on giving his true opinions on the sport. He doesn't dwell on the rivalry he has/had with Ian Thomas. A good read nonetheless though I do still think John could be have been more honest and upfront with his views.
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I like John Berry and respect him for his contribution to speedway but this book reads as though John struggled to write it. I think he packed the good stuff in to this books much praised predecessor. It begins with uninteresting opinionated irrelevance and goes downhill from there. For example he has chosen to create a list of his greatest all time riders based on three criteria and in most cases begins his appraisal with a disclaimer that it is based on second hand or unqualified information or freely admits he doesn't know what he's talking about. Each chapter begins with the cheesy lyrics of some song loosely relating to the subject matter which starts to grate after a few chapters. This book contains all the stuff that wasn't interesting enough to make it in to the first one. I really dislike not finishing a book and I will read virtually anything about speedway but i'm more than half way through this and have been waiting for something interesting to happen since the first chapter of the foreword, enough is enough!
Great as a present for the old school Speedway Fan, my dad enjoyed reading it and it kept him quiet for a few days
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