| Billy Sanders RIP 09:50 - Apr 23 with 1443 views | PhilTWTD |
Forty years ago today. I remember hearing the news on Radio Orwell and being so shocked and saddened having been a Foxhall regular for much of my childhood. What a rider and what a team that was.
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| Billy Sanders RIP on 10:04 - Apr 23 with 1339 views | gainsboroughblue |
I remember that news being broken on Radio Orwell so vividly. |  |
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| Billy Sanders RIP on 10:08 - Apr 23 with 1320 views | DJR |
I didn't go regularly to the speedway but I remember him well from my visits in the 70s and the coverage in the Evening Star. [Post edited 23 Apr 10:08]
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| Billy Sanders RIP on 12:49 - Apr 23 with 1027 views | IPS_wich |
Exactly the same - had been going to Foxhall for a couple of years with my Dad (I was 9-10 years old). Loved Sanders, John Cook, Jeremy Doncaster and Richard Knight.
I remember the Radio Orwell news so vividly that I can even remember the first song they played after the news was Black Man Ray by China Crisis and I could never not think of Sanders every time I then heard it again. |  | | |
| Billy Sanders RIP on 12:51 - Apr 23 with 1016 views | PhilTWTD |
| Billy Sanders RIP on 12:49 - Apr 23 by IPS_wich |
Exactly the same - had been going to Foxhall for a couple of years with my Dad (I was 9-10 years old). Loved Sanders, John Cook, Jeremy Doncaster and Richard Knight.
I remember the Radio Orwell news so vividly that I can even remember the first song they played after the news was Black Man Ray by China Crisis and I could never not think of Sanders every time I then heard it again. |
I half-heard it on the news and couldn't believe what I'd heard, so listened to the next hour to confirm. Similarly remember it vividly. | | | |
| Billy Sanders RIP on 14:25 - Apr 23 with 864 views | gainsboroughblue |
| Billy Sanders RIP on 12:49 - Apr 23 by IPS_wich |
Exactly the same - had been going to Foxhall for a couple of years with my Dad (I was 9-10 years old). Loved Sanders, John Cook, Jeremy Doncaster and Richard Knight.
I remember the Radio Orwell news so vividly that I can even remember the first song they played after the news was Black Man Ray by China Crisis and I could never not think of Sanders every time I then heard it again. |
I was trying to think why I would've been listening to Radio Orwell when that news dropped.
From memory, it was an early evening bulletin and I'd normally be listening to Peebles, Peel or someone on Radio One.
Having checked our fixtures, we were playing Leicester that night so that may explain it. | |
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| Billy Sanders RIP on 14:50 - Apr 23 with 822 views | ITFC_Forever |
I can remember that too.
He and John Louis were my first sporting idols, I started going to Foxhall when I was a few months old. |  |
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| Billy Sanders RIP on 15:54 - Apr 23 with 755 views | le2blue |
Was a real shocker at the time. I remember watching his funeral cortège going down Colchester road on lunch break from northgate, a few outside to wave him off. |  | | |
| Billy Sanders RIP on 21:19 - Apr 23 with 566 views | bluebudgie |
I can remember it so well, too Phil. I was a painter and decorator at the time and was on my ladder painting some soffit boards when the news came over the radio of his suicide; I was so shocked I nearly had a fall. While at school in the 70s, I was a raker at Foxhall for the Speedway for the princely sum of 75p a meeting. I was privileged to be there when the Witches were the best team in the country, with Billy part of it. Sporting life didn't get much better in Ipswich when we had the best speedway team and one of the best football teams in the country in little Ipswich! |  | | |
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