BRITISH SPEEDWAY NEWS AND FIXTURES 28.8.04
28 August 2004 - British Speedway Promoters Association

HULL are on the verge of completing a sensational Premier League title - just a year after finishing bottom!

The Vikings will be confirmed as champions if they take a point from their trip to King''s Lynn - or if Workington drop points at Berwick. Vikings star Garry Stead said: ''It was tough last year, it''s much easier to enjoy your speedway when you are in a winning team and we''re almost there.''

SIMON Stead has been installed as the favourite to win the Premier League Riders'' Championship at his former track Sheffield on September 19. And Stead''s Workington colleague Carl Stonehewer is ranked just behind Stead with Newcastle''s Jason Lyons this, according to bookmakers William Hill. Sheffield co-promoter Neil Machin said: ''Our own Andre Compton is rated 12/1 and when you look down the field it''s a massive line-up.''

William Hill PLRC odds as at 28.8.04:
Simon Stead (Workington) 5/4, Carl Stonehewer (Workington) 11/2, Jason Lyons (Newcastle) 13/2, Craig Watson (Newport) 9/1, Shane Parker (Glasgow) 10/1, Danny Bird (Reading) 12/1, Andre Compton (Sheffield) 12/1, Craig Boyce (Isle of Wight) 20/1, Tomas Topinka (King''s Lynn) 20/1, Mark Lemon
(Exeter) 20/1, Frede Schott (Edinburgh) 25/1, Magnus Karlsson (Hull) 25/1, Chris Neath (Rye House) 25/1, Jan Staechmann (Stoke) 33/1, Glenn Cunningham (Somerset) 50/1, Claus Kristensen (Berwick) 50/1.

FIXTURES)

SATURDAY AUGUST 28:
SKYBET ELITE LEAGUE: Eastbourne v Oxford 7.30
PREMIER LEAGUE: King''s Lynn v Hull 7.30, Berwick v Workington 7pm, Stoke v Rye House 7.30 CONFERENCE LEAGUE RIDERS'' CHAMPIONSHIP: Rye House 7pm

SUNDAY AUGUST 29:
SKYBET ELITE LEAGUE: Swindon v Wolverhampton 6pm
PREMIER LEAGUE: Glasgow v Newcastle 6pm, Newport v Sheffield 4pm CONFERENCE LEAGUE: Swindon v Boston (follows EL meeting), Newport v Mildenhall (follows PL meeting) CONFERENCE TROPHY: Buxton v Wimbledon 3pm

MONDAY AUGUST 30:
SKYBET ELITE LEAGUE: Wolverhampton v Belle Vue 7.30, Coventry v Swindon 7.45, Oxford v Belle Vue 12pm PREMIER LEAGUE: Exeter v Sheffield 11am, Newcastle v Glasgow 5.30, Reading v King''s Lynn 7.30, Rye House v Stoke 2pm, Workington v Berwick 7pm CONFERENCE LEAGUE: Weymouth v Boston 3pm, Rye House v Stoke (follows PL meeting), Mildenhall v Carmarthen 4pm

TUESDAY AUGUST 31:
PREMIER LEAGUE: Isle of Wight v King''s Lynn 7.30

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 1:
SKYBET ELITE LEAGUE: Belle Vue v Wolverhampton 7.45, Arena Essex v Oxford 7.45 PREMIER LEAGUE: King''s Lynn v Rye House 7.30, Reading v Exeter 7.30 CONFERENCE LEAGUE: Stoke v Oxford 7.30 CONFERENCE LEAGUE KNOCKOUT CUP SEMI-FINAL: Wimbledon v Boston 7.30 YORKSHIRE JUNIOR OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP: Hull 7.30

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