MolOverBeethoven
Wasn t aware you were hanging out with Paul Dews and I don’t recall any ex players, or ex Leeds players anyway, but my memory isn’t what it was. I recall drinking outside a bar and someone said that Dennis Wise and Gus Poyet were on another table around the corner, so everyone went around and sat on the next table. The atmosphere was quite frosty as Wise hadn’t quite earned the kudos of Revie, Wilkinson or Bielsa at that point in his Leeds tenure. It was pointed out that Paul Dews was with them, but I wouldn’t have known the bloke if he had sat on my knee, perhaps he was working for the club at the time? We had just been relegated to the third division, I think we were still in administration and the future was uncertain, so I suppose the people on the next table were seen as representatives of Kenneth Bates.
I do remember the game was against Union Berlin and they weren’t a top team back then. Some “Leeds supporting” Germans had tagged along and paid in our end, they supported Berliner FC Dynamo and they were chanting in German, at the Union crowd and it drew jeers from the Union lot. The chant sounded like “Side Show Bob”, so much so all our lot started chanting “Side Show Bob”. I got talking to a couple of them after, one seemed quite calm, the big lad less so. I had just watched “The lives of others”, the film about The Stasi and was thinking about going to the Stasi museum, because I was there for a few days. They said something in German to each other and the big lad said and I m paraphrasing, don’t waste your time with that it s a load of propaganda, in fact my dad worked for the Stasi and then he said and I ll never forget this, “We have a t shirt you can buy at Berliner FC and on the front it says “My Grandad was a Nazi, my dad was in the Stasi & I m with BFC."
I never did make it to their club shop, couldn t fit it in to my schedule strangely enough.
I don’t know if he still follows Leeds, but his head must have exploded when Manor Solomon clinched the title last week.
