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Got an e-mail form Tim Rohn, sports/football journalist from top German paper Bild, who was at the tournament on Saturday. He was genuinely impressed with our club.

 

http://georgeweahscousin.com/2011/07/26/atletic-bilbao-take-first-markus-liebherr-memorial-cup/

 

Wow. Great feedback from the German journalist. Interesting that he thought it was a decent size crowd.

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Got an e-mail form Tim Rohn, sports/football journalist from top German paper Bild, who was at the tournament on Saturday. He was genuinely impressed with our club.

 

http://georgeweahscousin.com/2011/07/26/atletic-bilbao-take-first-markus-liebherr-memorial-cup/

 

 

Yes some nice praise there which I enjoyed reading.

You might want to respell At(h)letic in your blog title and also rethink your views on Mrs Thatcher though. :)

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Nowt wrong with being a Thatcherite... ;-)

In the same way as nowt wrong with being a Skate ;-)

Being a Thatcherite and IW Independence Activist is an interesting, completely incompatible, combination. One of the main reasons for the start of Vectis nationalism was the Tory party and its desire to amalgamate with Hampshire. Still, should not be discussing politics.

Nice blog apart from that though.

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I am pretty sure Athletic is right!

 

I am the grandson of a Tory councillor, unlikely to happen ;)

 

I think you'll find that FF is referring to this:

 

quote So it meant that the final game between Saints and Atletico would be a “winner takes all” encounter. unquote

 

Edit: Sorry, good piece btw, enjoyed reading it. Being as I work in Germany most months and see a fair bit of their football on the box - I can appreciate what Tim says. That said - there are some stunningly atmospheric games in the Bundesleague.

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In the same way as nowt wrong with being a Skate ;-)

Being a Thatcherite and IW Independence Activist is an interesting, completely incompatible, combination. One of the main reasons for the start of Vectis nationalism was the Tory party and its desire to amalgamate with Hampshire. Still, should not be discussing politics.

Nice blog apart from that though.

 

Neither were meant to be taken particularly seriously! My need for the IW to be independent goes way beyond Mrs. T and the fact that it was illegally sold to the British crown in the first place.... Circa the 15th century....

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I see that Aaron Hunt was in the starting lineup for Bremen, have heard good things about him, how did he play? I believe he could have qualified for England much like Owen Crockgreaves, but decided to play for Germany.

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Got an e-mail form Tim Rohn, sports/football journalist from top German paper Bild, who was at the tournament on Saturday. He was genuinely impressed with our club.

 

http://georgeweahscousin.com/2011/07/26/atletic-bilbao-take-first-markus-liebherr-memorial-cup/

 

Don't want to p!ss on anyone's fire, as the comments are good. However, Bild is like a Sun/Daily Star hybrid. It's the most sold daily, but it's certainly not a credible paper in Germany.

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I see that Aaron Hunt was in the starting lineup for Bremen, have heard good things about him, how did he play? I believe he could have qualified for England much like Owen Crockgreaves, but decided to play for Germany.

 

probably a good desicion if the last world cup is anything to go by

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Athletic is correct as the team was founded by 'ex-pat's at the start of the last century.

 

But we've already been told it's NOT 'Athletic' and it's not "Bilbao' either.

 

In fact nothing that would describe a city or a football club at all. I'm not sure it's even permissible to pronounce the name in Klingon.

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I see that Aaron Hunt was in the starting lineup for Bremen, have heard good things about him, how did he play? I believe he could have qualified for England much like Owen Crockgreaves, but decided to play for Germany.

 

I was watching him pretty closely due to the weird way Werder have used him previously (in the Champions League against Spurs as a sub in the middle http://www.zonalmarking.net/2010/09/15/werder-bremen-2-2-tottenham-tactics/, and here on the right http://www.zonalmarking.net/2010/09/27/werder-bremen-3-2-hamburg-tactics/ but most of all in this match where he provided the entire argument that a wide midfielder can play in the hole http://www.zonalmarking.net/2010/08/19/werder-bremen-3-1-sampdoria/ ) but he was pretty quiet - they did some vaguely interesting things with him pushing into the front line and the 2 central strikers going wide, but that was about all of note as Saints mostly had the ball at the other end.

 

He played in both matches, didn't do much in the second one either...

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I was watching him pretty closely due to the weird way Werder have used him previously (in the Champions League against Spurs as a sub in the middle http://www.zonalmarking.net/2010/09/15/werder-bremen-2-2-tottenham-tactics/, and here on the right http://www.zonalmarking.net/2010/09/27/werder-bremen-3-2-hamburg-tactics/ but most of all in this match where he provided the entire argument that a wide midfielder can play in the hole http://www.zonalmarking.net/2010/08/19/werder-bremen-3-1-sampdoria/ ) but he was pretty quiet - they did some vaguely interesting things with him pushing into the front line and the 2 central strikers going wide, but that was about all of note as Saints mostly had the ball at the other end.

 

He played in both matches, didn't do much in the second one either...

 

Cheers for this. Always kept an eye out for him for some strange reason, also his Wiki profile pic makes him look like Mark Lanegan.

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Agree on that. The ridiculous policies and governing incompetence of Labour leaves you with none..... ;)

 

Minimum wage, investing in schools and hospitals. I don't know what they're thinking. ;)

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