Aye I hear the old place was a bit wild like, falling down and that but insane, it's called the Imtech now, think it changed name about 10 times! Greatcity as well mate, beautiful, and lush for food & drink.
If you are talking European teams then Dortmund for me. Watched them a lot late 70's early 80's whilst living out there, still follow them now but maybe in a more obscure, tentative way..
We did get about mate, but I was only there for a day and a half, when I worked in travel, so didn't get a great amount of time to take things in, I'm looking to go back for 2-3 days at some point, but there's a few other parts of Germany I wanna see first. I'd like to see Bonn & Munich, and Frankfurt is supposedly amazing, in the main due to having been levelled by bombs in WWII.
Cowdenbeath for me was reading through the paper at the end of the season 91/92 i think they finished bottom of the scottish 3rd with 11 points i felt sorry for them so watched for there results since then. Went to a game a few year ago they drew 4 4 with raith rovers cracken day out.
Berlin is probably the City you need to see mate, with the music stuff and all that. In the old days to go to the East, the way you went in was the way you came out and it was like crossing a time warp. Siegen is worth a visit for it's beauty in the North and definitely Munich for true Bavaria. Make a note of the accents as well, a bit like the UK, the Northern germans speak harsh and abrupt, the Southern germans sort of sing their words. All good stuff, enjoy..
I've heard Berlin is incredible mate, we were gonna get over when they play Bayern and go to the game, but I think that's been shelved for now, would have been a good lads weekend!
Berlin is a fabulous city. So much to see and do. Really underrated compared to the likes of London, Paris and Rome. The one downside is they should have left some of the Nazi stuff, like the bunker adi shot his dog and himself in. Its a sehr gut carpark though.
I don't really have a 2nd team per se, but have closely followed Real Madrid since around 1993 ish. Had a few of the 'Teka' Madrid home shirts, no better feeling than pulling on the White of Los Merengues when it's footy day in PE at school. Funnily enough, you can apply the same rule to your lot, Sunderland, I have wanted you lot to do well for years now. Roy Keane solidified that, as did Bruce, Wes Brown, O'Shea and some of the academy lot, along with S'Bragia who Darren Fletcher speaks very highly of as well, there's quite a few United connections at your club so I do always keep an eye out for your results. Never owned any Sunderland tops mind!
Los Merengues? The Meringues? As in beaten egg whites? Go on Terry get a shirt. You know you want one.
Yeah, it's the white part that matters I think, where Real are concerned... I assume so anyhow! I have an Atletic Bilbao shirt I swapped for my United top with an away fan a couple of years ago when they were in town, that's as close as you're gonna get to me wearing the red and white stripes of Sunderland!
Who is going to tell him the Athletic Bilbao creation story? I'm sure that Atletico Madrid are called the Mattress Makers. Odd.
Yeah no, I know it has something to do with shipyards, I remember somebody telling me that years ago. Can't remember the details but since it's shipyards I assume there's a Sunderland connection!
I quite liked the Invest in Africa one, thought that was one of the better looking ones in England when you had that. Some shocking clobber nowadays though, Spurs shirts are awful, tight like a frigging bra, no good for Nemanja to get a hand full of when he's chasing them back! Liverpool's away shirt is the worst though, obviously.
Liverpools away ones are shocking this year. Therre home one is nice though. I like the Spurs one too. Man Us home one this season is much much better than the one last season. I like the watermarked eagle thing on Benficas. On the shocking away LFC ones, have you seen Napolis?!?! Tbf though, a classic design for the home strip and crazy as fook for the away kits should be the template haha. I love the kits that Lotto do and Macron too. I hate when companies like Adidas and Puma just spit out identikit-kits and just change the colours, badge and sponsor depending on the team, only making bespoke strips for the elite teams.
Yeah there's a few dodgy ones out there, who the hell spends money on buying them surely a vulgar design stops people from buying them? Like the Newcastle shirt with Virgin on, it's not THAT bad really in design but the material was like tracing paper. Not sure about this new Wonga one but it looks cheap as well. My favourite two football shirts of all time is the Ajax 1997 home top and the United 1993/94 black away shirt, the one King Eric was wearing when he kung fu'd that Palace fan. One of the most memorable for me was the one Coventry wore in the early 90's with 'Birthdays' as the sponsor, awful looking thing.
I grew up as big fan for CSKA Sofia but also watched Ajax and Juventus as children because of Champions League, then came to England and became Sunderland fan for life.. now local team is Cork City, is not good and this league is not much on TV so hard to follow it, Sunderland is forever my team now.
