Brighton Tigers and Wembley Lions were the big teams of the time. Either would generally win the league and cups, great names like Bobby Lee, Johnny Oxley (who was unusual in hockey in as much as he was british and excellent), the net minder Gib Hutchinson and my old Gramps, Freddie Sutherland....
It is a great sport, where a pre season friendly involves 5 fights and two long terms suspensions (Anaheim vs LA game that I saw a couple of years ago in LA), although it's not quite as good over here, I've seen the London Knights a couple of times and it is good fun.
This would be fantastic. My late Grand Father was a forward for the Tigers in the 40's and 50's. Brilliant side of their day, as was he. Not many of those players alive any more.
He was always disappointed that they were allowed to fold, their tale was similar to the Albion's, needed a new...