- Paperback: 172 pages
- Publisher: Methanol Press (18 Oct 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0955310318
- ISBN-13: 978-0955310317
- Product Dimensions: 1.9 x 2.5 x 0.1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,794,366 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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It was a season that had everything. Fantastic races, routine
races, falls, failed ambitions, injuries, fights, controversy, laughter,
despair, weird decisions, tantrums, a rich tapestry of speedway people on
and off the terraces - and, of course, a dinner dance.
races, falls, failed ambitions, injuries, fights, controversy, laughter,
despair, weird decisions, tantrums, a rich tapestry of speedway people on
and off the terraces - and, of course, a dinner dance.
When Eagles Dared is a month-by-month account of the 2005 season which
featured an impressive number of Eastbourne Eagles fixtures - probably more
than any other speedway club raced in any British league that year.
Eastbourne (Jeff Scott's local side) has a genuine sense of community that
can't be easily faked. The racing is consistently good to exciting, the
atmosphere is special, and there's traditional craftsmanship practised.
Like any great British speedway club, Eastbourne has its own past and
present pantheon of "handlebar heroes", riders who matter-of-factly put
their lives on the line every week and every time they race. All this just
to earn a living and to provide our weekly speedway entertainment.
In a sense, When Eagles Dared could be about the experience of supporting
any speedway club or could cover any season. As fans we're perpetually
caught on the outside of what really happens in our club. We try to glean
information from what we read in the press, the programme and look at, if
we dare, on the Internet. And then there's what we hear on the terraces and
in the bar: that mix of blind optimism, despair, fiction presented as fact,
only seeing what you want to see, complaints and mickey taking. We don't
have the inside scoop or know the half of it so we have to make
presumptions - often incorrect ones - about motives and actions and mine a
rich seam of half-truths, rumours, and innuendo. This book, in fact,
describes what it's like for any sort of sports fan to follow their own
particular club - whether speedway or not.
When Eagles Dared was conceived and written as a companion to Jeff Scott's
successful first book, Showered in Shale.
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