MolOverBeethoven
Wasn t aware you were hanging out with Paul Dews and I donât recall any ex players, or ex Leeds players anyway, but my memory isnât 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 hadnât 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 wouldnât 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 werenât a top team back then. Some âLeeds supportingâ 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 âSide Show Bobâ, so much so all our lot started chanting âSide Show Bobâ. I got talking to a couple of them after, one seemed quite calm, the big lad less so. I had just watched âThe lives of othersâ, 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, donât 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, âWe have a t shirt you can buy at Berliner FC and on the front it says âMy 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 donât know if he still follows Leeds, but his head must have exploded when Manor Solomon clinched the title last week.
