Guten Abend und herzlich willkommen auf dieser, die Champions-League-Sonderausgabe von Harry Hotspur!
Hitler… there was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in ONE afternoon! TWO coats!
There are two excellent reasons why Bayern Munich should win the Champions League final. Firstly on a superficial level it will facilitate us and we get to play in the competition ourselves. The ripple of pride that went through our ranks upon qualifying last time was nothing shy of a complete delight.
But also, there is the story of a man called Landuaer.
This bloke Kurt Landauer was a Jew. Sure he was Jew, but he was also man who wanted his football club to play in a manner that was both stylish and entertaining as well as productive.
This direction was not only inspired but it generated tangible success and between the wars his Bayern Munich amassed a playing staff of genuine note and their (Jewish) manager Richard Dombi led them in in ’32 to their very first Championship.
During the reign of the Nazi’s the club’s Jewish members, players and anyone Jewish remotely associated with the club were forced to leave. The club refused to appoint a Nazi sympathetic president or embrace the insane doctrines.
Bayern however kept Kurt running the club behind the scenes. However, he was arrested in 1938 for being Jewish and held for a time at Dachau; but as one of the few lucky ones he re-emerged and took back the presidency of Bayern in ’47.
The ‘Father of Bayern’ is now honoured by Bayern fans and I love the quote from German football historian Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling who said of Karl Heinz Rummenigge who has welcomed the club acknowledging it’s roots…
“You get the impression it has become a personal thing for him.”
I’ll be cheering for Bayern tomorrow. For what they will do for us and also for the kernel from which that club was grown.
Yids I hate to break it to you…
last night wasn’t a dream! Sorry you are going to fade off into mediocrity again.
I cannot see it myself., well done Chelsea. My only gripe was seeing a banned racist scum John Terry having the neck to lift the trophy . We are out of the CL and good riddance, the only club that should be involved in that competition is Manchester City. I feel it has ruined domestic football.
I believe the only reason Dan hasn’t got rid of ol’ twitchy is the absence of an obvious replacement.
HH, how about a poll for next manager?
I’ll start…. Steve kean
@Forever- you have to love Ashley (that’s why I came here- to win trophies) Cole… :-p
When you add it all together there was something of a curse this season…
1. Riots (Everton game postponed)
2. Muamba (Bolton game postponed)
3. Arry court case
4. Capello resigns, Arry linked with job
5. Balotelli stamp/Defoe Gazza miss/last minute penalty
6. Career threatening injuries to Dawson/Huddlestone
7. Worst performance all season reserved for most important derby
8. Chelsea goal line technology…again
9. Adebayor having three or more perfectly good goals ruled out in important games
10. Fulop putting in one of the all time worst Prem goalkeeping performances allowing Arsenal to win by 1 goal
11. The worst Chelsea team in years actually winning the Champions League without playing any decent football against Barca or Bayern
12. Ledley King finally being found out at the crunch time of the season
Harry Redknapp, the buck stops with him
most enjoyable season I can remember in last 20 years up to the 5-2 drubbing, most depressing half a season I can ever remember in my lifetime since that game.
I hate football, don’t really understand why I waste so much of my life following such a grotty corrupt game as unless you have a billionaire owner who invests in the team your just making up the numbers like insignificant bit part players
we’ve become the league’s joke, the losers who always fuck up regardless
I was out with two cheatski fans yesterday afternoon and they felt their name was on the cup, they were also laughing their tits off at us blowing up in the league & our january transfer business – 3rd in the league and signing dross like saha & nelsen
Strange logic – Messi and Ronaldo are staying at their clubs and won’t need replacing