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I think that the main reason for Guardiola to join Bayern was the board. Chelsea is owned by a Putin intimus, Man City by some megalomaniac sheiks. Bayern, OTOH, are an independent club with nearly 200k members, a democratically elected board and ex-footballers like Beckenbauer, Hoeness and Rummenigge on it who share 250 caps between them. And that is not likely to change, as the German football league sticks to a rule that forbids investors to buy more than 49% of the shares. Even if the rule were not in place, Bayern had no necessity to invite someone like Abramovich, as their bank balance is around € 100m. Positive, not debt!

Alex, I don't support drink driving. I just wanted to say that some things like deliberately raping a woman or deliberately beating a youth up and leaving him to die is worse. Far worse. Not the other way round as ICTPaisley suggests.

I think a loan for Cooper wouldn't be the most stupid thing for the lad. Half a season in Div1 or 2 to give him experience as a first team regular would improve him more than one or two sub appearances at ICT, after that he'd be in a shape to become a regular starter here. Of course, now is not the right time with all uncertainties about players recovering from injuries or suspensions looming. But why not in the autumn?

As we say here, keep the church in the village. Drink driving is something you shouldn't do, but innocent people can die because a driver without alcohol, drugs or medication suffers an unexpected heart attack and his car plunges into a group of pilgrims because of that. As happened in Southwestern Bavaria a couple of years ago. The only way to prevent death is abolish living .

It's Jupp, luke, not Jopp . But I agree that Heynckes is a wee bit difficult to spell for non-Germans. Even I can't find any logic in this spelling

Didn't I tell you?

A real pyramid structure has to go down to the very bottom of local football. If, for example, the HL champion gets promoted and no team is relegated into the HL, the place is filled from below, as the bottom team(s) are relegated to the local leagues and the winners of those get promoted to the HL, with play-offs of the second and third bottom HL sides and the runners-up of the local leagues for as many spaces as necessary. BTW, that's the way the whole thing has been run in Germany and Austria since WW2. For example, German Bundesliga side Hoffenheim were in the second bottom local tier in the mid-80's, before they started their climb through the stages and ended up where they are now. Not through application and buying in, but by winning one league after the other and getting promoted to the next one. Sponsor Mr Hopp wasn't involved until around 2000...

Didn't Doran say he hoped for an extension offer a few weeks ago?

Don't forget BBC Alba was to show the game live. That's the reason for the early call-off instead of speculating how the weather would turn out today.

Just saw on BBC that Draper is on 7 yellows. Suspension looming?

well....ppl cant use the xmas shopping excuse no more Why bother? It's an away game...

I think some of the youths might be ready for a loan to Div 1 or 2. But on the other hand, there's still the U20 team which is doing quite well and shouldn't be weakened either.

Fully agree with DD. It was long known (internally) that the main reason for the Hillsborough tragedy was failure of stewards and police, as we (the common people) learnt in the last months. So all the action taken was nothing but a cover-up for this failure, as the police must always be seen as saints. So the football authorities should act on this new knowledge and change the rules to a sensible compromise. One word on the German model: It's necessary for those clubs who want to play in Europe, because UEFA is even stricter with standing areas, and the only way to fill them is to change them into seats for international games. I've seen qualifying matches with sold out seats and empty areas behind both goals because they couldn't be fitted with seats for the game.

Wonderful Johndo, but shouldn't it be Old Filth?

Don't worry, McKay hasn't scored yet...

What should Bayern Munich have said when they were to play the likes of Rostock or Cottbus with no airport within 100 miles and a 9 hour bus trip?

Why don't you start writing it yourself?

After another failed attempt (download error) it's working now...

Billy scored only two? Off to the bench with him

Kenny Gillet on the bench? Are you sure you didn't mix something up?

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A pity the game is not a week later...

I tried to download the original book with added material yesterday, and, while the download itself worked, I only got an error when I tried to open it. Something like "damaged file". It was the same both on Preview and Adobe Reader 9

Alex, the Prague one is called Staropramen. And you're right, the first Pils was brewed in Pilsen, hence the name. But the guy who invented it was actually from Lower Bavaria, he went to Pilsen because the local brewers in the 1840s were so bad that nobody wanted to drink their beer. Nowadays, 70% of German beers are brewed in the Pilsen tradition.