Recent content by Austrian Gull

Absolutely. I'm showing my age - back to the late 70s for me! Maybe some of my German friends at university influenced my way of thinking as they were dismissive of Leverkusen being a small club near Köln, no bigger than Uerdingen (the other Bayer works team of the time).

I'm just showing my age and my sense of nostalgia. These clubs all gained promotion and did things the right way - there's no disputing that. It would just be beneficial, I feel, for German football if some of the better supported clubs currently languishing in Bundesliga 2 or even lower (e.g...

Bundesliga 2 is littered with big historical clubs - Hamburg, Kaiserslautern, Hertha, Nuremberg... Average attendances have even been higher than in the Bundesliga for at least one matchday. Sadly (in my opinion), they have been ousted by less traditional teams (Hoffenheim, Wolfsburg, Leipzig...

I'm thinking of taking the day off when their annual accounts come out soon - should make for riveting reading! Absolutely unbearable club.

Topps instead of Panini, apparently!

Getting absolute pelters online. Owners are refunding anyone who travelled to York's game last night. Would be a shame if it didn't work out for him.

I have never watched anything from last season's FA Cup semi-final. I was at Munich Airport waiting for a plane with my 10 year-old son sending me updates. His last message just before boarding was, "Shit."

I think we're capable of getting beaten 3-0 and winning by the same score with everything in between possible. I have absolutely no idea what Brighton will show up tomorrow!

Athletic Bilbao have great pedigree - never relegated, won loads of silverware, big support...

I know they're shit now but there was a time in living memory when 1860 were serious rivals. Potential is still big if they ever get their act together. As the name suggests Bayern were more the team of the region of Bavaria whilst 1860 were well supported in the city of Munich. I'll add...

Szmodics looks a really decent player. Thought Moran was promising.

This thread is warming up nicely...

As you correctly point out, he was one of the few Radio 1 DJs to survive when Matthew Bannister took over the station and cleverly chose to leave when he wanted to. It all feels so strange as I was only listening to him on Pick of the Pops this morning. He made that show his own with a...

The two hairdressers in the salon where I used to go to as a teenager in the 80s were openly gay and used to laugh along to Gervais.

As the definition of a hit song seems quite flexible, let me add Talk Talk to the mix - no Top 10 singles, radio standards like "It's My Life" and "Such a Shame" didn't even make the Top 40 , absolutely massive in continental Europe. Unlike some of the other acts on this thread they contributed...