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lion
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| Posted: Thu 15.9.05 7:43 Post subject: Dynamo Dresden is back! |
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My former local team Dynamo Dresden has beaten 1860 Munich in Munich 2:1 in front of an 66 000 audience! And that is the 2. Bundesliga (=engl. first division). 20 000 Dresden fans went the 300 miles to Munich that is roughly 4% of the entire population of Dresden.
However, all was not well since 2 service stations on the Dresden - Munich Autobahn are now in need of total reconstruction. |
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Mucky
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| Posted: Thu 15.9.05 9:23 Post subject: |
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Congrats!
Didn't the Brits bomb Dresden during the war and a monument was put up there recently?
Dresden for Champions league?
Or even better a challenge match against the might of the Lions! :wink: |
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K2
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| Posted: Thu 15.9.05 11:41 Post subject: |
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Not the lions please. I have had enough of rowdy supporters to last me a while.
Good stuff Lion, send them some "shagged by" stickers.
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lion
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| Posted: Thu 15.9.05 11:49 Post subject: |
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Didn't the Brits bomb Dresden
They did indeed.
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during the war
After, rather, since the Wehrmacht had already moved out and people in the eastern parts of town could already smell the papirosi cigarettes. To avoid ungentlemanly arm wrestling with the Soviets Bomber Command therefore left all industrial sites well alone and entertained themselves by knocking over old-fashioned inner-city housing.
An equally astonishing fact is that Sir Winston, who happened to sip Georgian brandy with Uncle Josef in Jalta on the 13.+14.02.1945, omitted any mention of the raid in his war diaries (13 volumes!!).
There will not be a monument though. HRH, at her visit to bless the monumental cross which an English goldsmith and son of one of the raiding pilots donated for the reconstruction of the Church of our Woman, got mid-public-address so excited by all the good one can do that she spontaneously offered to fund and erect a statue of "Bomber" Harris right in front of the church.
An ill-advised or conceived gesture of generosity. She joined the likes of Chancellor Kohl by getting "egged" out of Dresden.
Not HRH! (only sort of...) The dark bits of stone are what was left of the church after it burned for some days and then collapsed in a heap of rubble, the bright bits are new. |
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lion
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| Posted: Thu 15.9.05 17:32 Post subject: |
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Dresden for Champions league?
Like that?:
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Mucky
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| Posted: Fri 16.9.05 6:47 Post subject: |
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Bloody hell one wee question and out comes the history lesson!
Appreciated it all though except for the Liverpool defeat which was probably due to the players getting bevvied up on Wheat beer the night before the game and the Gerries having the last laugh :oops:
DO you remember who one the European Cup that year? :wink: |
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lion
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| Posted: Fri 16.9.05 7:42 Post subject: |
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| Liverpool did eventually. The 2:1 was the second leg, we lost the first 5:1. |
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