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Borussia Mönchengladbach and a host of British clubs looking at Marcus Pedersen

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In the game of the Norwegian 'tip leagues' between V�lerenga IF and Strømsgodset IF sat next to observers of Borussia Mönchengladbach, also Scouts of the national league team of Hamburger SV, of the English premier League clubs Blackburn Rovers, the FC Fulham, Bolton of hiker and the FC Sunderland, of the Scottish premier League club Celtic Glasgow, of the Swedish society BK hoeing as well as of the French society AJ Auxerre on the platform.

While it will have concerned at the observer of the Borussia according to all foresight Ove Flindt Bjerg, the Norwegian daily newspapers speculate unanimously that at the same time the storm talent Marcus Pedersen of the current table fourth Strømsgodset IF in the visor of the Topclubs stood. The striker provided with its hit to the 1:0 victory of Strømsgodset IF.

On the 09th of April 2007, that debut today 19-year-old in the A team of its homeland society Hamarkameratene, better well known as a HamKam in a game against Skeid. In the further course graduated it yet three games before it an injury threw back. On the 09th of July 2008, it obtained its first gate in the Norwegian elite league in the game against Rosenborg Trondheim and provided with its hit in the 90th minute to the 2:1 for the victory against Trondheim.

As "antrittsschnell, very heavily to stop, striker with Torriecher, fearless and strong technical capacities", is described the 1,80m large strikers. Nevertheless the at that time climber HamKam descended again and so the right foot 2009 changed after Strømsgodset IF. There it obtained in its first year in 24 games ten of gates as well as three models and awaked therefore also in the Norwegian media high attention.

Also in the running season, this trend continues. So stand after previously eight games already five of gates and three models to beech. Understandably wakes that pruriences. Teams out of the premier League as well as out of the national league observe it obviously already since a longer period.

At the same time became in the second half of the year of the last year of the media already an Ablösesumme of 1.4 million kolportiert. The portal 'transfermarkt. de' appraises the market value of Pedersen, whose Vertag still has its validity until 2013, on 1 million Euro. "I does not know that some societies are interested, but I knows which. It would be crazy to be able to play once in the premier League, also Germany would be crazy", so Pederson end of the past year.

Could be promising, can't really see a Premier League team taking a punt on the kid after one good season despite the links, and seeing as 'Gladbachs top scorers this season consisted of a central defender and a winger, we need all the reinforcements up front that money can buy. We're also rumoured to be looking at Robin Söder from IFK Gothenburg, who was linked with a host of big clubs in 2009 before a cruciate injury stunted his development.

I can assure you there was no man-handling of any kind. Not that I can remember to be honest, it's all a hazy blur.

Amaretto & Coke. It's pretty much the girliest drink you could order, but it takes just like Dr Pepper (and as such, I can consume dangerous quantities of the stuff).

No room for medieval practices in the modern world, regardless of how many angry extreme right wing muslims is pisses off.

I (mostly) agree with this statement. Unfortunately, things are never as black and white as that though.

Fairly bog-standard this, sat in the dug-out of Borussia Park during a stadium tour...

This one however is less flattering...

Steve McClaren might be taking over as Wolfsburg boss, imagine the hilarious accent you could have to listen to! His German one must have something on the Dutch lilt he adopted.

Now you come to mention it...

Cardiff for the Prem.

i am going to be living in germany for 10 months from september so i will have to choose a team too. all i know is that i will be in nord-rhein westphalia, don't find out my actual town until july.

Monchengladbach's in Nordrheinwestfalen. :winkold:

To everyone who's said the mighty Foals, you're on my Xmas card list chaps.

Reasons to support Borussia Monchengladbach:

-Strong Brit following, especially during the '90s due to proximity to British Military bases Rheindahlen and Laarbruch.

-Only German club to be referenced in a Fast Show skit ("Borussia Monchenmonchenmonchenmonchenglad To Be Back... match abandanos; fisty, bad boys").

-Proud history, absolutely dominated German football in the '70s.

-The club Lothar Matthäus, Stefan Effenberg, Berti Vogts and Günter Netzer all made names for themselves at.

-Gorgeous new stadium. I've had the pleasure of attending matches at Borussia Park (and at the old Bokelsberg stadium) and the atmosphere is always electric, even at friendlies.

-Uwe Kamps penalty heroics in the '92 German Cup semi-final (saving all four in the shoot-out against Bayer Leverkusen) mirroring Bosnich's penalty heroics against Tranmere.

-Penchant for nurturing exciting young talent: Marko Marin, Marcell Jansen, Marvin Commper to name a few that have done well for themselves. Currently, Marco Reus (brought in from 2. Liga Rot Weiss Ahlen as Marin's replacement) and Michael Bradley (who had a fantastic Confederations Cup) are two players causing quite a stir.

For those who've suggested FC St. Pauli, well, if you want to follow a team who thought having a camo-kit was a good idea then more power to you...

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Bleurgh!

And lastly, shit on Bayern Munich, shit on Borussia Dortmund, and shit on FC Koln. Much love! 8)

I really need to get into some new bands. I'm actually bored of music at the moment. Someone help me out.

I'm really into anything, other than nancy boy pop music and country.

Pulled Apart By Horses

Tracks to listen to: Meat Balloon, I Punched A Lion In The Throat

The Joy Formidable

Tracks to listen to: Austere, Cradle

Sixty Watt Bayonets

Tracks to listen to: Teenage Lovers, 1933

I Heart Hiroshima

Tracks to listen to: Captain To Captain, Wires

Phoenix

Tracks to listen to: 1901, Lisztomania

Bear In Heaven

Tracks to listen to: Wholehearted Mess, Ultimate Satisfaction

Three Trapped Tigers

Tracks to listen to: 11, 6

A Place To Bury Strangers

Tracks to listen to: Exploding Head, Keep Slipping Away

Lafaro

Tracks to listen to: Tupenny Nudger, Big Kevin

Talons

Tracks to listen to: Anthropods, The Tragic Decline Of Buff Orpington

Minnaars

Tracks to listen to: Busy Hands, Essay Essay Essay

Les Savy Fav

Tracks to listen to: Raging In The Plague Age, Patty Lee

Mix of old and new, different styles in there. Hopefully you'll find something to your liking.

can someone shop the new holland home kit into villa colours as that is reportedly what it is this year.

This plus the small chequered boxes on each sleeve.

All nice efforts, would prefer to see a traditional collar on the home kit though.

We should have learned by now not to torture ourselves with these efforts, as by the time it comes out the official kit actually disappoints compared to the mock ups.

We should've, but where's the fun in that? 8)

Anywho, have tinkered with the blue and changed the collar...

Some mock-ups of a home, away and third kit with Cadbury's sponsor for y'all...

HOME

AWAY

THIRD

Spurs; the team most likely to get hilariously knocked out in the qualifiers by the likes of FCU Politehnica Timisoara or someone akin.

Which games has he derended badly...

INERITABLE!

Ahem, sorry. Couldn't resist. Back to the topic...

Bale needs to maintain his current form through next season for any of the bigger clubs to start taking a serious look. Don't get me wrong, the lad's done really well but there's so many flash-in-a-pan youngsters around these days that have one great season and then five years later they wind up at Ebbsfleet (no offence to Ebbsfleet intended). He's certainly got everything going for him though.

3-1 flattered United today, although I did have to laugh at how utterly stonewall the first penalty was. I think if most Spurs fan's were told they were getting 6 points from the last 3 games they would've been very happy indeed. Oh, and Rafael's attempted goal-line overhead clearance when a simple header would have done was quite hilarious.

As for the Eredivisie, I think back in the 90's you weren't taking as much of a chance on players as the general quality of the league was better (despite the fact that the league seems more competitive throughout now then it was back then).

Video's a bit cack but the song's ace. For fans of Explosions In The Sky and The Appleseed Cast; co-incidentally Vessels' superb debut album "White Fields & Open Devices" was produced by the same John Congleton who's worked with aforementioned bands.

give the Engineers a try as well, I'm determined to convince people their first album is a classic chilled album

It totally is. 'Forgiveness' and 'Home' are particularly excellent.

downing 4 - sorry, i think he is getting worse

young 6 - not his best game but he is always a threat even if his crossing is erratic

Got to disagree there, of the two wingers Downing was much better. Good workrate, did well tracking back and his deliveries today were begging for someone to get on the end. Young on the other hand had his Aaron Lennon crossing boots on today, he either couldn't beat the first man or lofted it into no-man's land.

Webb's a bottler. Penalty aside (and fair play to Ray Wilkins for telling it like it was, he could have just as easily pointed out that Agbonlahor had a fistful of shirt), that c**trag Terry could have broken Milner's leg. Jimmy must have legs of steel, 'cause it could have been a career-ender.

Aside from losing Malouda for the second goal (which is a pretty big "aside"), I thought Cuellar had a really solid game. It just seems to me that not only would we benefit in an attacking sense from playing a natural right back, but Cuellar is a considerably better defender than Collins. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of the ginger-monolith, but on a couple of occasions he went to ground too soon and left us exposed.

Oh yeah, and we need either a striker or a plan B.

Im going to Rockwerchter in Belgium which should be ace!

Christ, there's some quality on show there! Phoenix, Midlake, Yeasayer, Wolfmother and Dirty Projectors = good times.

Got a couple of gigs coming up this month, Minnaars at the Luminaire on the 28th and Three Trapped Tigers at the ICA on the 29th. Really looking forward to both of those, but I will be absolutely hanging at work on Friday!.

The one I'm counting the days till is MAYBESHEWILL at the Lexington in June. Really can't wait for this, plus they've just announced the support and one of the acts (Kontakte) I've seen before and really liked. It's great when shit like that happens.

Just got back home from seeing

in London and they were **** brilliant. First time I'd seen them live, I was familiar with most of the material but they nearly blew the roof off the place. Gonna have tinnitus for the next few days now but quite frankly I couldn't be happier. If you're interested, they're the heavier side of instrumental math rock (not all I listen too, honest!) and are also stupendous.

Not sure how good Kitbag are, but if you enter the promo code "Xexec" when purchasing you should get 10% off your order. You did not hear that from me.

Football jerseys can have an educational purpose apparently...

That Juve one is gorgeous.

At first I thought that Boca top was cheap because it said "Juniors XL" size... I'm an idiot.