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Kurt Landauer

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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. 

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  • What happened to Tottenham? says:

    this is a joke! Our team is shit, the manager is shit, the stadium is shit. We are doomed! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • kojac says:

    crash,bang wallop what a picture!

    we didn’t make it then,it feels bad like we are going to have to start all over again,wow what a balls up now,we made it so difficult when we should have cruised in to the CL,

    redknapp probably should go,i can see him punching the air when fat frank scored and then going doh!

    feeling unclean,horrible summer for us now,not sure i want to listen to redknapp for another season but can’t see us doind anything now the money has gone

  • friginspurs says:

    TBH , It’s time now for a fresh start for spurs , a clear out and a revamp a younger manager with new ideas and tactical vision, not some one who at 60 mins all over a team does nowt and then brings on Scott parker on at 85 mins. Secondly not playing JD enough has cost us in my opinion, he would have scored alot more and ultimately put us in third. We can’t carry on playing this VDV formation ,If Modric wants to go then fine. my worst nightmare is having to put up with harry redknapp for one more season. Do us all a favour and F******k off you cad!

  • johnnycheshunt says:

    You’ve got to laugh though.

    hysterical wide eyed shouty laughing turning to crying and then back to laughing seamlessly.

    Hey-THAT’S TOTTENHAM!

  • LLL says:

    If Levy doesn’t sack the man most culpable for this calamity then I think I will give up on next season and find a non-league team. What’s the point in following this shit?

    • Frontwheel 2 says:

      If it doesn’t kill you it will make you stronger they say,I feel as weak as a kitten today.I think we are in for a rough ride on all fronts.
      The truth is we have got to take it on the chin,stop bemoaning our awful luck like the two scums would do and wait and see what happens.Once a yid always a yid

    • I think we are three loans away from being a Non League team,so you dont have to go far

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