Simon Langley 2.0

The following is a list of British athletics records as they stood in 1968:

100 yards
9.4 - Peter Radford (1959)
100 metres
10.2 - Menzies Campbell (1967)

220 yards
20.5 - Peter Radford (1960)

440 yards
45.9 - Robbie Brightwell (1962)

880 yards
1:47.0 - Chris Carter (1966)

1500 metres
3:39.1 - Alan Simpson (1964)

Mile
3:55.7 - Alan Simpson (1965)

3 miles
13:06.4 - Ian McCafferty (1967)

5000 metres
13:33.0 - Michael Wiggs (1965)

6 miles
27:23.8 - Bruce Tulloch (1966)

Marathon
2:13.45 - Alistair Wood (1966)

3000 metres steeplechase
8:32.4 - Maurice Herriot (1964)

120 yards hurdles
13.9 - Michael Parker (1963)

440 yards hurdles
50.4 - John Cooper (1964)

High jump
2.08 - Gordon Miller (1964)

Pole vault
4.80 - Mike Bull (1967)

Long jump
8.17 - Lynn Davies (1966)

Triple jump
16.46 - Fred Alsop (1964)

Shot
19.56 -Arthur Rowe (1961)

Discus
57.00 - Gerald Carr (1965)

Hammer
64.95 - Mike Ellis (1959)

Javelin
79.78 - John FitzSimons (1966)

Decathlon
7392 -Clive Longe (1967)

Fred Alsop was a triple jumper of some note and was the first modern British triple jumper to make an impact at world-level, and was the first Brit to jump over 16m (Perth, 1962). At the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 Alsop was leading the final with 16.46m (also a British record), but would eventually finish just outside the medals in 4th place. In 1965 he jumped a wind assisted 16.65m (+2.5) against Hungary, but never improved beyond his Tokyo mark despite success at the 1966 Commonwealth Games in Kingston (Jamaica). Also a decent long jumper (7.74m in 1964), Alsop won the AAA long jump title  on three occasions.

I run the Newark Half Marathon website for Newark AC and I recently decided to re-vamp it. The old site was looking quite tired and with the 2009 event quickly approaching I thought a new lick of paint was required.

I decided to use WordPress instead of a proper CMS as it is quite a small site.

Here is the updated site for the Newark Half Marathon.

Championship Manager was my favourite game back in the day and here are some top tips for anyone wishing to play it now (you can download it here).

• Use 1-4-5 formation, sounds crazy but it works, try it
• Paul Warhurst can play defence, midfield or attack right, left or centre - versatile or what!
• Jason Kaminsky (Nottingahm Forest), if you put him in the team and play him for a couple of seasons has the potential to be awesome
• Noel Whelan and Jamie Forrester work very well together
• Colin Cooper always ends up playing for England…

One of my favourite websites is the Waybackmachine - an Internet archive of websites dating back to 1996. It really is amazing how much some sites have changed. Here are some very good examples…

The BBC website in 1997

It seemed to be the fashion to use black backgrounds in 1997!

 The Coca Cola website in 1996

I have no idea what this is about…

 The McDonalds website in 1996

Ditto

 The Pepsi website in 1996

Prepare for an epileptic fit looking at this background, it is mental.