Date: 26 May 2002 00:15:00 +0100
Subject: Re: Smart Scots



ninety-one andy wrote:
> Can I just point out that the Scottish and German
> comrades have brought up Wembley 66, not me, I was
> just laughing at Bertie Vogts. [Though they never
> proved it didn't cross the line]. Didn't he break his
> duck yesterday though against a Hong Kong Select XI?
> Next week the Faroes??
Who is NOT laughing at Bertie Vogts?!?! Okay, German football fans were  
rather crying bitterly while he was still the coach of our national  
team... That HongKong thingy was really great - always good to play a team  
of high renown;))) Did the Scottish team win that or did Bertie blunder  
once again?

Sorry for bringing up Wembley again, I just wanted to find out whether  
Dave was still alive;))) Dave, I have meanwhile told that story of a group  
of Scottish brickies shouting for the German team to a few people here,  
and I don't know whether you understand this, but the story always got a  
good laugh...

> BTW, Owen Hargreaves looks pretty useful - shame he's
> Bayern Munich - what do the German press say about
> him?
The German press, if and when they take notice of him, say he's quite  
talented, and occasionally, they'll mention that he's better playing with  
Munich than with an English team. He'll probably get noticed and mentioned  
a lot more if he wasn't playing for Munich, because bashing Munich  
verbally is quite a popular sport here. The second reason why Hargreaves  
doesn't get mentioned all that often in our papers is that the Munich team  
has some renown for scandals and manage to come up with them by the week,  
or probably by the day, so a player without any scandals just doing his  
job with the Bayern Munich team is definitely not news.

Munich also weren't in the papers for their merits this year, they came  
off 3rd which almost everybody really enjoyed. The 2nd Hamburg team -  
which unfortunately just got kicked out of Premier League - managed to  
kick their Bavarian arses with a 2:1, and that was a definite reason for  
quite some partying and celebration.

catkawin