Quite right
Germany's football stars have been warned to expect to wear bullet-proof vests at next summer's World Cup in South Africa. The head of a security firm said players, like Michael Ballack, would need such protection if they ventured away from the team's Pretoria hotel amid safety fears.
Guenter Schnelle from BaySecur said: "The possibility for the players of moving outside of the hotel boundaries should be kept to a minimum." "Otherwise there must be a full escort: armed security guards and bullet-proof vests for the players," he told German magazine Sport-Bild.
Lets be honest here, if potting the Hun was good enough for grandpa & father
then its good enough for us
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I assume from the lateness of the hour when this was posted, that a fair amount of the single malt had been ingested.
Nevertheless, I feel I must register my protest at the use of the inappropriate photo it does not add anything.
I quite accept its your blog/your rules & I don't have to read it if I don't want to, but I think you have
overstepped the mark here.
I shall not, however, be invoking the Private Eye
convention of "cancelling my subscription".
Kind regards
Posted by: david morris | October 23, 2009 9:34 AM
I think Fritz can only just have bought it when that photo was taken, he still has his binos, MP40 and Luger.
Posted by: Rob | October 23, 2009 5:57 PM
David
Fear not, that’s not a real dead Hun, the picture came from a WWII re-enactment soc library. However my long held & oft stated sentiment remains the same... we have been fighting the French & the Germans for hundreds of years; many of us feel that we should still be fighting them. I tend not to do editorial consistency very well but on this particular point have been firm for some considerable period of time
Cheers
Posted by: Mr Free Market | October 23, 2009 6:29 PM