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https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/angela-merkel-ex-zdf-chefredakteur-brender-wirft-kanzlerin-erpressung-vor-a-1164679.html I guess this is what Schulz was refering to.

You share your TF365 password with said missus?

(was going to post this before our SirBalon mentioned the birthday) Happy 60th Birthday Camp Nou. I will visit you one day. Probs be cutting a few onions while doing so cos dampness might stream down both cheeks. This is a mate of mine's video creation: showcases the Camp Nou in all her glory and beauty, the La Liga celebration (2nd treble season) and Xavi's farewell (he was the heart and soul of Barca). Now THAT was a proper send-off for our Capitan, unlike the one for Casillas!! Love the mosaic. One of my fave YouTube vids. Never get tired of it. Love how cules applaud Deportivo staying in La Liga due to the 2-2 draw. 6racies Xavi. Siempre.

CAMP NOU 60 YEARS OLD TODAY 60 years ago today on the 24th of September 1957 coinciding with the patron saint of the city of Barcelona 'La Mercé', FC Barcelona inaugurated the Camp Nou after moving from their previous ground Les Corts. The game that was played that day was against a combined XI of football WWII war veterans that names themselves The Warsaw Squad which ended 4-2 to Barça and the first ever scorer at the Camp Not was Eulogio Martínez. The architect of the iconic stadium was a local architect called Francesc Mitjans Miró, a cousin of the then FC Barcelona president, Josep Soteras Mauri. The initial quote on the cost of the Camp Nou was valued at 66,620,000 Pesetas (€4.4m) and an 18 month limit was put on the building of the football arena. Just as occurs today, it took longer, 3 years and the cost went considerably higher to 288,000,000 pesetas (€1,7m) which provoked that the entity went into a massive debt and a subsequent depression at the club for over a decade. The original capacity (pre the first remodelling of the Camp Nou) stood at 93,000 spectators and the pitch dimensions originally were of 107x72 metres (today the pitch dimensions stand at 105x68 metres). In 1982 the first remodelling of the stadium was commissioned and the Camp Nou's capacity rose by 22,150 spectators which took the full capacity to 115,000 and made it the biggest stadium in Europe and the second biggest football stadium in the world at the time after Brazil's Maracana. That same year the stadium was used for the inaugural game of the 1982 World Cup which was held in Spain and was also the venue for the 1992 Olympics (held in Barcelona) for the football final which saw Spain beat Poland to win the Gold Medal. an original ticket to watch FC Barcelona play at the Camp Nou in 1957 In 1994 it was the year UEFA and FIFA declared that all professional stadiums should be all seater and subsequently the stadium capacity went from 115,000 down to 99,500. If one of the main reasons why the Camp Nou was commissioned to be built for the move from Les Corts was so because of Ladislao Kubala (the Hungarian footballer of the period) which attracted football fans from all over Spain, today Messi can be said to be a part of the reason why FC Barcelona have commissioned a total remodelling of the Camp Nou to bring it into the 21st Century and make it an out and out elite stadium. The limit date has been set for 2022 to be finished but as we saw what happened when it was built, it could take a tad longer.

Neville gets on my tits, both of them do tbh. Just paid to constantly criticise.

Sad day for Germany.