It is one for the anthology. I remember a few. In 1983 "Juve vai prendi la" (Corriere de la Sera). But Hamburg stole it. We invite him for fish dinner. Mersey must have some fish.
Fingers crossed. My best pre season bets: - 1998 FRANCE-BRAZIL finalist pairs - won - 2000 FRANCE-HOLLAND fianalist pairs - shopkeeper counted the shop's money twice and Reikardt kept shooting penalites wide - 2004 CZECHIA - PORTUGAL finalist pairs - Greece spoiled it. If you win you can send me some a carton of Dimples. The hotel in which the air stewardesses go between flights is just across the road from my house.
Beano stuff. In England you don't have club press. There are the fan zones now and the forums but in the old years you had no such newspapers. So there is no "Liverpool news" in the stands nor "Arsenal news". When first came to London I showed the fans some Greek newspapers with colour covers -like Sun more or less- and they said wow look at that. At around the same time Baines had sold Charlie Cook to Newcastle so I said "come here you, why London ain't burning yet ?" to which an elderly Chelsea supporter replied "listen here young man, Charlie Cooke played for us so why not play for Newcastle as well ?". Reminiscences ... But this one Liverpool guy foots the bill for the proverbial "Sid and Doris Bonkers" award. Terry will jump into the Mersey he fancies ...
I did. Arsenal=jokers, UTD=Moyes, City=habitual losers. But Pool were doing poorly in December, January so they came to be unfancied. We blew it -insofar as it's not over yet- but I don't think they will be happy in the end.
... of some Chelsea interest. I had only a brief look before and I was surprised Barcelona were the bookies favourites. So I thought those were double finals, but I saw the terraces and they were not those of Nuevo Camp. 1-1 however now.