#Jupp Class

[hazel-of-sodor]

Bakers Dozen: Canon Ships I want to see in Star Trek Online

I love Star Trek Online, and one of my favorite features is the sheer number of ships you can fly from in the shows. From the 22nd century to the 32nd century, there are literally hundreds of choices. But there are still many canon starships I’ve have not had the chance to make poor finacial decisions for. So what better choice for the first round of Baker’s Dozen.

Here’s 12 canon Starships (and one honorable mention) I want in Star Trek Online.

Lets start with the Honorable mention:

The Consitution III Class

Picard Season III’s hero ship, the affectionatly dubbed NeoConnie bears the distiction of being both the Titan A and Enteprise G. Those who read my Enteprise F headcanon also encountered the USS Riptide, an early command of my Captain. Why then is she only an honorable mention? Because the developers have already announced they are working on her. *sighs* shes gonna be a promo ships isn’t she?

1. The Federation Class 

First appearing in Franz Joseph's Technical Manual, this design first appeared on screen as background display’s in The Wrath of Khan and The Search for Spock. More recently, Star Trek Picard saw model’s of this legendary starship in Ten Forward, alonside ships such as voyager and Enterprise D. Considering my flagship is a Gal-X, this would be a wonderful predecessor. Plus TOS ships are always welsome

2. The Romulan Bomber

In Picard Season 1 we were introduced to the Romulan ships with this beauty. An elegant design with blade like wings, it instantly caught my heart. Instantly recogniable as a Romulan vessel while being a new and distinctive shape, it was a perfect evolution of what came before.More Romulan rep is always appreciated. C-Store? Please?

3.The Niagra Class

One of my favorite ships in all of Star Trek, the Niagra class is a three nacelled cruiser blending elements of the ambassador and galaxy lines. Perhaps uniquely, the third nacelle is underslung. She has only appeared as wreckage, most notably the USS Princeton, lost at the Battle of Wolf 359, nut several other STO ships have the same origin. The Cheyenne and New Orleans both come from the same boneyard fleet. Also a updated Princeton Class to match the Lafeyette and Andromeda would be gorgeous.

4. Lower Decks BackGround Ship

This unamed Ship class from Lower Decks is beggin for someone to realize her full potential, maybe a desendant of the Crossfeild Class? I loved her from the moment I saw her, and desperatly want to know more.

5.The Yeager Class

No this is not a meme, its one of my favorite background ships. She has an isane amount of screentime, as shes in stock footage used alot in DS9. She served throughout the Dominion War. Why the weird hull? In my headcanon, she was built as a proof of concept for a tactical sister class to the Intrepid. (This will eventually be a full headcanon post). Once she proved succesful (for what she was), the go ahead was given to desgin a production version with a properly designed secondary hull. The outbreak of hostilities saw the Yeagar pushed into service, as she was a fully combat capable vessel. Also, the amazing Pundus already designed the 2412 variant. 

6.The Mayflower class

A ship from the Kelvin timeline, the namesake of this ADORABLE starship was lost at the Battle of Vulcan in 2258. We need more Kelvin ships, and it is a crime this sweet gal isn’t in game already.

7.The Duderstadt class

You knew. I knew. The Pakleds knew. A modified Bill Krause design, much like the Titan/Enterprise herself, the USS Intrepid made a daring, intimidating, and awe inpiring debut in Star Trek Picard Season 3. Its rare to see a new ship so univserally loved today. But she deserves it. The only bad thing is she’s prolly gonna be the lockbox ships.

8.Jupp Class

This Gal appears waaayyy in the back of a DS9 episode according to the art deparment. Good enough for me. Shes a clear member of the refit family, and is an obvious choice to add to the Miranda/Clarke/Light Cruiser Frame. Always could use TMP rep

9. The Intrepid Type

Really? This isn’t in game already? How?!? Please? Enterpise Era Rep? I haven’t even watched Enterprise yet (oops) and I know this ship!

10.Springfeild Class

Another ship lost at Wolf 359, common, pretty small science ship? Complete the fleet? It could literally be the Chekov class.

11.Curry Class

This class appears in Deep Space 9, and features tow variants with different Nacelles arrangements. TMP Carrier anyone?

12. Block 2 Constitution Class (Kelvin Timeline)

I just want to talk. Its been 7 years since this beautiful ships arrived, and theres no offical models, and no STO Release...WWWHWHHHHYYYYY????

I love this ship. Its my favorite lettered Enteprise. I need her. Shes the only canon Enterprise besides the G not in game, and they’re working on the G. Best design in the Kelvin Timeline, and we don’t have her. I would totally spend stupid money on her, but I can’t.

Please STO, show mercy.

Hope yall enjoyed this first Baker’s Dozen, see you next week!

[thommi-tomate]

Thomas on the legends match and team presentation

A special kind of highlight for me was the meeting of the Triple-Mannschaft of 2013 with legends match in the Allianz Arena.

It was very nice and emotional to see the guys again and especially the coaches from back then. We won 10 years ago as a community. Jupp Heynckes, in particular, played a very special role. As a coach, but also as a fatherly personality who brought us all together. (😭😭😭💕)

Like a class reunion, it is also exciting to know where life has taken you after 10 years. I am still in touch with some of the guys, and with others it was a reunion after many years.

At this point, thanks to the Dortmund Legends team, who came to Munich especially for this occasion and the match. Very cool action!

In fact, I would have liked to have had one or two more conversations. But the subsequent presentation of the current Bayern squad for the season was of course also an important event, especially for our fans in the stadium.

Source: Die Müller Mail

[alphaman99]

From DANIEL JUPP:

"If I had money I’d dress like a Victorian or Edwardian all the time. I’m working class but I like all the style and elegance we lost. I can’t stand modern elites, I eat fast food every week, I think the working class are the only people, largely, maintaining any sanity, but I’d like to go back to everyone dressing for dinner.

"When you had a special outfit just for dinner, THAT’s a civilisation.

"The old elite were better than the new elite. They had class. Some were degenerate scum, but it wasn’t a REQUIREMENT. And they didn’t pretend that they were the downtrodden ones, the victims, the suffering.

"A culture that takes care about presenting itself with beauty, grace and elegance is a culture more inclined to the good, the wholesome and the just. Occultists used to say ‘as above, so below’. I say ‘as they present themselves, so they are’. Our modern culture delights in ugliness and considers the rancid to be sophistication. We see this in buildings, in clothing, in art, in music, everywhere.

"The current idea that a filthy cretin like Harry Styles dressed in a Little Bo Peep outfit is cool tells you what our culture has become. This has taken a long time. We got to the middle of the 20th century and even someone like Frank Sinatra (a pretty unpleasant creep) [NOTE: Hmmmmm?] still liked to dress well.

"Sometimes the superficial matters because it constructs the world we experience. Old rules of how a man presents himself made for a more civilised society in general, even if it too had thugs and murderers. In everything from architecture to clothing, we adopted ugliness. Or rather, ugliness was sold to us, inside and out.

"Recently I made the mistake of looking at some adverts for suits. Now it clutters my feed every day. But I do react a little like Prince George in Blackadder 'WHAT a pair of trousers!'.

"If only I had the money I’d be a bit of a dandy. Or a chap. A chubby, unattractive one, but at least I’d be trying. In the culture wars, there is no superficial. Everything matters."

[alicewhitesblog]

Alex Jupp was anxious, and when he gets anxious, he sneezes. Which isn't good, not good at all!

This was his first day at the new school, another school that hopefully would still be standing at the end of the day.

He stood in front of the bathroom mirror looking at the dragon on his school tie all the while pressing hard the little grove that sat on his top lip, the philtrum.

A lady doctor once said, as she took Alex's index finger and placed it on the groove above his top lip. "If you know you are going to sneeze, just press this."

His mum came into the bathroom and walked up behind him. He allowed himself to be enveloped by her. Closing his eyes, he breathed in the scent of her perfume and and that calmed him down. If only for a short while.

She kissed the top of his head and tousled her son's blond hair.

"You alright sweetheart?"

Alex shook his head.

His mum kissed him again, "I'm sure you'll be alright once you met the other boys and girls."

She took pity on her son; his condition had made him a lonely child. She coaxed him away from the mirror and combed his hair. It was time to go.

Alex and his mother got on the bus and immediately he fetched out of his bag a colouring book and some pens. Colouring distracting his mind. It distracted it so much that he didn't even notice the bigger boys talking and whispering about him at the back of the bus.

Once at school, his mother kissed Alex on the cheek and said goodbye before handed him over to the headteacher. The two of them entered Class 1B and upon entering, the form teacher stopped talking. Every childs head in class swivelled their heads towards the door.

"This is Alex everyone, make him feel welcome." said the headteacher, then giving a nod to the form teacher, left the room.

After twenty minutes had pass, the bell sounded informing the pupils that the morning lesson had ended.

Breaktime, and as Alex wandered the playground alone, some boys from the back of bus surrounded him 

"It's the baby from this morning who likes to colour!" taunted one of the boys.

Alex didn't like these boys and could feel an anxiety attack coming on. He pushed hard against his philtrum. He could sense a sneeze coming on, and that wasn't good. Not good at all!

"What's he doing now?" said another of the boys.

Alex remained polite despite the aggression. "It helps me not to sneeze."

"Why, what happens when you sneeze?" snapped one of the boys trying to pull Alex hand down from his face.

"Bad things happen."

All four boys looked at each other, dying to know what could be so bad about a sneeze.

"Grab his arms!" shouted the tallest boy.

"No! you mustn't let me sneeze!"

With Alex hands bound, he was unable to prevent the twitching in his nose.

His face contorted.

Here it comes! Thought Alex.

"ACHOO!"

First there was a blinding flash of white light, then the heat blast that atomised everything within a one-kilometre radius. A small mushroom cloud formed above where the school use to be.

Alex opened his eyes and  saw in front of him the four boys now as a black pile of ash.

Wiping his nose and kicking their ashes, he sang. "Ring a ring of roses, a pocketful of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall down."

[adhoption]

Comedy club

Something which doesn’t really get talked about in terms of Old Boys Clubs in industries is comedy.

People know about politicians all coming from public schools and Oxbridge. The UK has had fifty-five Prime Ministers, of which 28 went to Oxford and 14 to Cambridge. Twenty of them went to school at Eton. It’s not even a historic thing, given that two of the past three went from Eton to Oxford to government. 

That’s seen as a sign that they are out of touch, an inner circle of privileged schoolmates who look down on the rest of us. People imagine similar scenarios in investment banking or law, where the top jobs are occupied by people who went to the right schools and universities and all know each other, so are able to give each other a leg up and keep social mobility under control.

But when it comes to mainstream comedians, they are the public figures we look to as relatable everypeople, the very ones who mock the out of touch elites and satirise their nepotism. A few are obviously posh, but that is played with a major part of their persona, like Miles Jupp or Ivo Graham self-deprecating and welcoming jibes about their privileged backgrounds, because comedy is for the people first of all.

But television comedy seems to have as high a quota of Cambridge graduates as there are Oxford graduates in the Government. A list of the past members of the Cambridge Footlights, the university dramatics club, pretty much makes up a timeline of British comedy. 

As well as mixing with the likes of Prince Charles and Salman Rushdie, Footlights members formed Monty Python (with members of the Oxford Revue) and the Goodies, and created classic satirical programmes Spitting Image and Yes Minister. 

They formed double acts like Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller (and more lately daytime TV’s Armstrong and Richard Osman), Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc, David Mitchell and Robert Webb, Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and more. Griff Rhys Jones formed a partnership with Oxford’s Mel Smith.

But those who forge a path alone have also done pretty well for themselves. Alongside a bevy of famous actors, the Footlights have nurtured Douglas Adams, Clive Anderson, Sandi Toksvig, David Baddiel, Andy Parsons, Tim Key, Richard Ayoade, John Oliver, Alex Horne, Mark Watson, Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, Phil Wang and others alongside their first-class education.

(Their counterparts at the university’s great rivals, the Oxford Revue, had the rest of the Pythons, Stewart Lee and Richard Herring, Angus Deayton, Armando Ianucci, Rebecca Front, Richard Curtis, Rowan Atkinson, Sally Phillips, Al Murray and more who haven’t done too badly for themselves either.)

But even the solo artists are rarely left on their own. The industry is saturated with Oxbridge graduates who were part of the same societies, often at overlapping times, and sitcoms and panel shows are filled with familiar faces. Even on the stand-up circuit, comedians usually make their way by supporting a more famous act on tour to build up their own name, and it seems it would be easier to do that if one of the famous names used to do student sketches with you.

Of course, that’s only considering on-screen talent. The Footlights and Revue needed people to write and produce their shows, and so they also nurtured talents across the board. Smith and Jones formed the production company Talkback, which went on to produce hit comedy programmes (many created by Ianucci) including Brass Eye, I’m Alan Partridge, Green Wing and Da Ali G Show, as well as successful panel shows like QI and Never Mind the Buzzcocks. 

Ianucci also created other shows like The Thick Of It with fellow Oxford graduate Jon Plowman (and starring Front) and worked with Lee and Herring to write On the Hour for radio (the beginnings of a format and characters he would expand later on). Plowman was himself given his step up in the industry thanks to his Oxford friendship with Mel Smith, who he worked with in theatre for a time before becoming Head of Comedy in the BBC and responsible for commissioning new comedy shows, including French & Saunders and the Office.

Peter Fincham, another Footlights alumnus who was hired as Talkback’s creative director, went on to be the controller of BBC One and then the Director of Television for ITV. John Lloyd, another Footlights alumnus, created popular panel show QI. For the job of hosting it, he chose Footlights alumnus Stephen Fry. When Fry stepped down, he was replaced by Footlights alumnus Sandi Toksvig.

Lloyd was himself originally going to be given the job of hosting Have I Got News for You, which ultimately went to the Oxford Revue’s Angus Deayton, with Oxford graduate Ian Hislop as permanent team captain. Have I Got News for You was created by Hat Trick Productions, another production company which was also responsible for bringing Whose Line is it Anyway, Room 101, Outnumbered, and the Armstrong & Miller Show to our screens.

Armstrong & Miller were a Footlights double act. Room 101 was given to Nick Hancock, a Footlights president, to host. The first fifteen guests invited on included Peter Cook, another ex-president, Deayton, Hislop, Tony Slattery, Baddiel, and Germaine Greer, all of whom were in the Footlights or Revue, many at the same time. Outnumbered was a Hugh Dennis sitcom vehicle. The first series of Whose Line featured Slattery, Cook, Fry, Jan Ravens, Graeme Garden, Rhys-Jones and Rory McGrath, all from the Footlights (Sandi Toksvig was then added as a regular). Clive Anderson, another Footlights president, was given that job to host.

(Boris Johnson also notably featured on Room 101 and Have I Got News For You, providing a nice overlap with the Prime Minister trend above.)

Hat Trick Productions, the company behind all of these shows, was founded by Rory McGrath and Jimmy Mulville, another ex-president, who met, performed and wrote together in the Cambridge Footlights. Another of the large production companies, Endemol Shine UK, created panel/game shows 8 out of 10 Cats and Richard Osman’s House of Games. Osman graduated from Cambridge and the Footlights into a producer role at Hat Trick, before being appointed Endemol’s creative director, where he created Pointless, setting up his own career in front of the camera as well as hiring Footlights contemporary Armstrong as his co-host, as well as his two shows of his own. (8 out of 10 Cats host Jimmy Carr also went to Cambridge, although he came to comedy later on in life).

It’s Footlights/Revue all the way up. The panel shows provide an opportunity to invite a whole range of comedians on as guests and give a friend the leg-up they needed, and it’s no surprise that half of the guests end up being Footlights graduates, given that the host is, and the creator of the show is, and the people running the production company are, and the commissioning director of the television channel are. You simply get your peers to approve your show and then you get your peers to make it and you get your peers to host it and invite your peers to appear on it. After all, that was how you made your shows at university.

It works the same way for sitcoms, just with a slightly more permanent cast. But Footlights people are everywhere on stage and screen. The director of the National Theatre? Check. The producers of Comic Relief? Check. The list goes on and on, and many of the individuals barely mentioned above went on to create or chair their own shows (e.g. Alex Horne’s Taskmaster). 

So the question is - how many people have been given a gig because of their connections? How many of these people wouldn’t have been chosen if they hadn’t previously worked with the other party in their student days, or were at least a friend of a friend of a friend? It seems inconceivable that there was no in-group bias, that these people all just happened to be the objective best choice in an open hiring or commissioning process. But it’s something that I think most viewers aren’t even aware of.

[octupus-on-the-moon]

A table

~It's been done *laughs in Dr. Frankenstein*. After a lot of sweat, cursing and repeatedly flipping of my laptop and tablet. A new part of a nightmare is ready. It's a bit longer because of my absence and I hope I can keep my motivation up~

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Ninth part of nightmare

Word count: 1,814

Pairing: Bucky X Reader

Warning: Non I guess. Just some fluff and a burned gratine.

Bucky opened the door, awaiting the cold, baldness of the walls. To end up being surprised by the green he saw everywhere.

He totally forgot the little plants, y/n bought for him. They really made a difference. A welcome one. His clenched jaw and frowned eyebrows disappeared.

After taking of his jacket, he took an empty glass and went around pouring some water in all the colorful pots. He cursed under his breath, after he spilled some water for the second time. Mentally making a note to buy a watering can. Without noticing that his dark thoughts lifted and the silence around him was a welcome one, rather than a threatening menace.

Barnes looked at his wristwatch. It was still over an hour, till y/n would come back from college. He felt a sting of joy in his stomach.

That was new, Bucky wondered. It was probably just the excitement of finally having something to look forward to, instead of enduring one day after the other with the same maddening routine.

In the meanwhile, he could be useful and cook lunch. Y/n would be hungry after college and he had promised to cook the next time. Bucky looked in the fridge and cupboards. Potatoes, cheese and bacon. Exactly what he needed

Y/n had 30 minutes of lecture left, till she was free. She really wanted to go back to her little room in James’s apartment after the first class, but Monday was full of important courses, so she somehow managed to convince herself to stay.

The short call with James lifted her spirits considerably. It was his stoic way of talking, as soon as she showed a bit of interest in him, that made her feel warm inside. Her thoughts wandered off. To him. To the unpleasant night and how she finally saw the scared child he was. But then they went off to his blue eyes and the little crinkles around them when he frowned.

He must have been quite a look back in the forties.

Of course she had seen the photos in the Smithsonian, but she pictured him in a classier way. With a fitted suit and a fedora hat, walking down the street stealing hearts. Maybe a girl at his side and his eyes constantly lingering around her, as if she were the whole world and more. At the thought of it, y/n caught herself picturing a girl just like her, beside his tall figure.

That made her stop and turn back to reality. It was not a good sign. Or maybe it was. It felt like forever, since she let someone into her life and James was pretty much the last person she would have thought of. But she also did not expect her father being a criminal and her whole existence a facade.

Life was full of twists and turns lately. Some good, some bad. Maybe it was time to let something good happen.

“Ms. y/l/n, could you resume the discussed topic?” The professors sharp tone ripped y/n out of her train of thought. This will be the longest 30 minutes of my life, she thought.

A quite knock on the door distracted Barnes from intensely starring at the oven. He decided himself for a simple potato gratin, that would hopefully suite y/n’s taste. With is heart beating a bit too fast he neared himself the door.

And there she was. Her hair a little mess. A bag casually hanging around her shoulder and a beam as bright as the sun itself.

“Will you let me in or just keep starring?” Her playful greeting made Bucky’s heart stumble and without wasting words he stepped aside. He made another mental note. His gaze is not to be trusted. “How was therapy?” she asked letting her bag slide to the floor entering the kitchen in on smooth motion “Who of you two bit off the other one´s head first?” It took Bucky moment to get out of his trance.

“I….. We…. It went good” Barnes cleared his throat closing the door behind him “But she got a little suspicious about me deciding to cooperate” Y/n was drinking a glass of water leaning against the counter and once again Bucky could not get his eyes off of her.

“I did not think about that. We should have done one thing at a time. But I guess it´s too late now. Oh! And it smells amazing” she replied signing over to the oven. The quick hand move, the way her voice floated in the air, that one fuzzy hair in her face, everything captured him. “I…” A sharp smell tingling his nose interrupted Barnes. It came from the hot oven in the middle of the kitchen. His concentration fully gathered again, let him act quickly, reaching over for a rug and rescuing his gratin in the last moment. The crust was now a bit darker than needed but it was still acceptable.

“It´s a burned potato gratin” Barnes darkly commented, placing the form in the center of the already ‘set up table’.

“Hey, don´t be so hard on yourself. It still looks amazing”

“I´m not being hard with myself, I´m blaming you. It wouldn´t have burned if you wouldn´t have distracted me” Bucky’s eyes were glimmering amused.

She gasped overly dramatic, laying one hand on her chest “Me?”

“Yes. You” He broke out into a smile, without wasting another thought he reached over to her, brushing that fuzzy string of hair out of her face. Y/n’s giggle stopped for a moment at the closeness between both, making place for a shy smile, her eyes searching the floor. Barnes retreaded himself, feeling a heavy stone inside his stomach, as he realized how intimate the gesture was.

She did not expect him coming so close, her heart was already fluttering and was about to explode at his touch. Then he moved away causing an emptiness inside her. The same emptiness she always felt since the day of the notification. It was the last time she felt truly fulfilled and at ease, she had dreams and goals. Then everything changed. Life suddenly was a landscape of grey. Every task dull and meaningless. Time passed. She soon enough noticed that the emptiness would stay and the grey would only flourish.

Then the nightmare happened. And the already grey landscape had now even dark shadows to be afraid of.

James moved away to cut and serve the gratin. Giving her a little time to calm down her heart beat and ‘take a seat’ on the kitchen counter. After another heartbeat of discreetly observing Bucky serve the plates, y/n decided to break the silence “James”

He looked up with a shy grin “Yes?”

“We really need to get you a table”

….

“Is it really necessary?” Bucky and y/n were standing in front of the furniture store. Bucky incredulously, Y/n exited.

“Well at least I am not going to keep eating on the floor and, or the counter. My back is literally hurting from eating the gratin”

“Yes, it’s true. But. I…” Barnes closed and opened his fists a few times weighting his options “Okey. I guess we can take a look around” She nodded enthusiastically leading the way into the shop, James sighted heavily and followed.

The store was more or less deserted, which relieved Barnes. He didn´t like being in a already overwhelmingly filled hall with an ever more overwhelming count of people in it. The exit routs were explicitly signed which calmed his anxiety a bit more.

The most urgent thing for y/n was definitely the table, which led them to the dinning room section.

“I feel like a mafia boss” Y/n declared sitting down on the front side of a heavy wooden table. The chair, throne-like, up-holstered in a red velvet.

“Yes. A very scary mafia boss” Bucky jeered from the other side of the aisle.

“Hey! I can be scary if I want to”

“Jupp, as scary as a teddy”

She got up from the huge seat and walked over to him “Have you ever started into the cold dead eyes of a teddy bear?”

Bucky thought for an overly long moment “No, I haven´t. What about this one?”

“James. That’s a plastic table and it isn´t even a good quality one. In half a year, you will need to buy a new one” grabbing his arm she dragged him away “Come on these place is gigantic, we can find something better”

Yet, they didn´t. Every table y/n suggested was rejected by Bucky and vice versa. It was mostly to big, to small, to pompous, to dull, to much seats, to little seats and so on.

Both had almost reached the end of the section, when y/n suddenly dragged Bucky over to another exemplar. It´s design was simple, a glass top and a blond wooden frame with matching metal legs. Four chairs coated in a clear fabric rounded the dining set.

“This one. It´s the perfect size and I think I saw stools that would match, for the counter” Y/n sounded near desperate. Bucky took his time to look around the table. He was searching for something specific on it.

The price tag.

Y/n had picked out the most beautiful and practical tables, but the price was often more then exorbitantly high, which led Bucky to refuse all her suggestions. And the same happened with this one, it was by far the best table she had found today. It would look amazing between the plants, near the window, the chairs comfortable to sit on, in the early mornings to drink coffee and read the paper. It was a shame the table was out of Bucky`s scarce budget.

“I don´t know” Barnes commented “The chairs will get dirty pretty fast” Y/n´s face dropped.

She really didn´t expect it being so hard to satisfy Bucky´s furniture taste. Y/n thought that given Bucky´s cloth taste, he would have somewhat the same taste for furniture. Modern, comfy and in style with the room. Yet, every piece he had found acceptable was old styled, plastic or just straight out in a horrible color “You really liked that plastic table didn´t you?” She sighted.

For the break of a second Bucky frowned disgusted, then he nodded convincingly. But it was enough for her to know, what was keeping them from agreeing for a piece of furniture.

Cheap.

Every single table he elected was not because of its design, colour or material, it was because it was cheap. For a moment y/n felt bad. It was selfish of her not thinking that way, even though she truly believed that she didn´t have a rich complex, sometimes she did forget that not everyone had unlimited resources.

“Maybe it´s time for a little break. I think I saw a popcorn stand outside” Bucky’s conflicted face lit up a bit at her words.

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[jwilsonmajortwo2021]

The Importance of Folk Music

My piece will open with a folk song written and performed by fellow student Hamza Jupp and myself. Hamza will sing and play guitar, and I will harmonise and play the harmonica. The reason my film will open with a folk song is that folk music has a long history of being the music of those who map the land. It is the music of the beggars, and suicides, servents, and outlaws, the dying, and the going and is a music that defines a people who are forever in search of a right to exist. Folk music has strong historical ties to the communities of African American slaves and the white working class, for it was sound that both communities collaborated to to make sense of their being forgotten by the land they lay, and died, upon.

These themes of isolation, mapping a land, being upon a new horizon of change and being, are why I intend to use a folk song to lead my film in.

[panelshowsource]

Miles Jupp is telling a story so awkward, it could have come straight from the book of Very British Problems.

“I went to a restaurant last night, and the man was talking about people who’d been in and he said: ‘You’re an actor, aren’t you? What’s your name?’ But my natural voice is basically a mumble and I am incapable of saying ‘Miles’. I have to say: ‘Erm, Miles.’ He said, ‘Sorry, what is it?’ I said again: ‘Erm, Miles.’ He said: ‘Emmaus?’ And so I said yes.

“When I left, he said: ‘Nice to meet you, Emmaus.’” Jupp looks stricken. “Why would you want to say your own name quite loudly in a restaurant?”

It’s not difficult to see why Jupp is about to star in the West End as David Tomlinson, the man beloved by generations as George Banks in Mary Poppins. The play, The Life I Lead, is written by James Kettle, who has described Tomlinson as representing “a certain kind of vanished Englishness”. Jupp is perfect casting.

He is familiar to Radio 4 listeners as chair of The News Quiz, a job he made the surprise decision to leave this year, and to stand-up audiences after two decades on the circuit. Television viewers may know him as Cousin Basil in The Durrells, Nigel the lay reader in Rev, and press officer John Duggan in The Thick Of It, performances which saw him running the ‘Englishman’ gamut from cheerily bumbling to uptight to utterly confident in one’s own abilities despite not possessing any.

The Life I Lead is a one-man play which explores Tomlinson’s personal life. The actor endured the tragedy of his first wife’s suicide, the trauma of finding out that his father had for years maintained a secret second family – a discovery made by chance one day when Tomlinson’s brother looked out of a bus window to see his father sitting in another house – and the challenge of raising a son with autism at a time when the condition was little understood.

This is not, though, one of those plays about the tortured genius behind the laughter. “No, and actually I think he was sort of untortured, although he experienced great sadness,” Jupp says. “You might associate people of that generation with the stiff-upper-lip thing, but he faced his difficulties head-on. I think he made an effort to be jolly, but not in a denial way – just that you can be jolly if you choose to be.”

Tomlinson, who died in 2000, belongs to another era: “There’s a certain sort of old-fashionedness about him.” Some interviewers have attributed a fogeyish bent to Jupp, who turned 40 this month, but actually he is not like that at all. He chats animatedly about Britpop and the time he went to the Smash Hits Poll Winners’ Party.

Perhaps it’s the voice. Jupp is not screamingly posh, but he is well-spoken. “I suppose if you asked people who weren’t British, ‘What are British people like?’, they might describe someone who was a bit like me. I know I seem posh. And I sort of don’t mind that, really. Because none of that’s up to you anyway, it’s just a thing you’re given, and pretending you’re not like you are seems to be slightly odd behaviour.”

He found a berth on that most middle-class of stations, BBC Radio 4, succeeding Sandi Toksvig as host of The News Quiz in 2015. It was “a great job”, he says.

So why quit? It turns out there were several reasons. “If you’re in charge of something, it’s not as fun as being on it,” he admits. “There’s a certain amount of information you have to get across. You have to pretend to have opinions about things that you have no opinions on whatsoever, and you have to pretend not to have opinions about things that you do have opinions on. So you end up in a slight kind of flux.”

He worried that chairing duties meant he was “not being terrible creative. If you watch someone like Nish [Kumar] on The Mash Report or John Oliver, sitting behind a desk talking about the news and making jokes, you think: ‘That is what they really want to be doing.’ And if I’d hear myself, I’d think: ‘Well, I sound like someone who happens to be hosting the The News Quiz…’ So from about three years, I thought I’ll probably stop.”

The news cycle got pretty wearing: “The same topics came up rather often, and I’d think: ‘Am I saying the same words in a different order?’”

The death of longtime regular Jeremy Hardy was another factor. “Once I knew Jeremy was so unwell, I didn’t really like the idea of doing the show as he wouldn’t be in it any more. Every now and then, a recording would find itself going down this cul-de-sac, and you’d think ‘I know what this evening needs…’, and there’s no way it can happen.”

As for criticism that The News Quiz was too Left-wing, Jupp brushes it off: “Who is sitting at home thinking, right, I’m about to be told facts for 30 minutes solid? To worry about [bias] means to not credit the audience and listenership with a great deal of intelligence.”

He shrugs: “In terms of political balance, I was never really bothered about it because that’s not the job of that programme. It’s just jokes.”

Now he is off the show and free to talk about his own politics. So, is he a Tory? “No, I am absolutely not a Tory. I’ve never, ever put a cross in that box.” That’s not to say he’s a Jeremy Corbyn fan, either. He imagines their conversation: “I’m happy to vote for you, but can you just tell me – it doesn’t have to be an essay – what it is that I’m voting for? Can you just say vaguely what it is you actually think?”

Jupp also says he left The News Quiz because he wanted to spend time with his family, which from a politician would sound like a lie but from a man with five children sounds eminently reasonable.

He lives in Monmouth with his wife, Rachel, whom he met at university in Edinburgh (a period when he also found fame as Archie in the BBC children’s show Balamory). Their eldest is now 10, the youngest four, with an eight-year-old and seven-year-old twins in between. I imagine the logistics are quite something.

“The rules of my local leisure centre make it possible for me to take four children swimming at a time, and we do that without much difficulty. It’s as difficult sometimes as people imagine, and as fun sometimes as people imagine. But you do have to have a f------ big car.”

What of the Duke of Sussex’s recent pronouncement about having only two children to save the planet? “Is that what he thinks? Um, well, it’s a bit late really… we’ll try and offset it somehow. I’ll get them to wear solar backpacks.”

Jupp has heard the environmental argument many times. “If I had a herd of cows, would you be saying to me: ‘Hmm, now, you must have heard that cows are quite bad for the environment.’” He’s giggling now. “If you interviewed a Formula One driver, would you say, ‘You know, it’s actually better to drive a little bit slower just in terms of fuel efficiency…’?’

Rather than the weekly travel that The News Quiz entailed, he now plans to spend longer stretches at home. And to concentrate on acting and writing. He is working on a novel about a man in his 30s who is disillusioned with his job – no, not presenting The News Quiz, but teaching. And he would love to take The Life I Lead to the US.

“You could do it in America, on the East Coast or the West Coast. Or Des Moines.” Then he checks himself. “I mean, I’m totally flying kites here. The producer may well be reading this and thinking: ‘Um, no. This is definitely the last time he’s doing it.’”

[ao3feed-football]

Enemy Mine

read it on AO3 at http://bit.ly/2RcGlvz

by Blue_Night

Bernd Leno is a young lawyer and single father of a ten-year-old son, working in Joachim Löw's chancery. His happy life ends abruptly when his worst rival and archenemy from old times becomes not only his new neighbor, but also Löw's new junior partner and Bernd's colleague. He's a single father like Bernd, and Marc's son Alex joins the class of Bernd's son Oscar. To make everything much more complicated than it already is, Bernd and Marc have to work together as the lawyers of the famous married football couple Marco Reus and Mario Götze when they want to get divorced - and when they are forced to cooperate as the new trainers of Alex and Oscar's school football team when the principal Mr. Heynckes decides to teach them a lesson how to be good role models for their fighting sons...

Words: 3960, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Men's Football RPF, Real Person Fiction

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Bernd Leno, Marc-André ter Stegen, Marco Reus, Mario Götze, Joachim Löw, Jupp Heynckes, Original Child Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Manuel Neuer, Thomas Müller, Oscar Leno, Alexander ter Stegen, Mathilda, Other Character Tags to Be Added

Relationships: Bernd Leno/Marc-André ter Stegen, Mario Götze/Marco Reus, Minor or Background Relationship(s)

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Bernd and Marc-André are lawyers, Marco and Mario are footballers, Same-Sex Marriage, Bernd and Marc-André are single fathers, Lawyers, Enemies to Lovers, Fights, Denial of Feelings, Confusion, Angst and Feels, Angst and Fluff and Smut, Hurt/Comfort, Anger, Mathilda is here too, Other Additional Tags to Be Added

read it on AO3 at http://bit.ly/2RcGlvz

[freelance-informatique]

Coupe du monde : 10 illustres joueurs qui n'ont jamais participé à la compétition !

La Coupe du Monde nous réserve souvent des passages fantastiques, agréables et mémorables. Qatar 2022 ne manquera pas de livrer son lot de surprise. Dans l'esprit des fans de la Coupe du monde, les noms de Pelé, Bobby Charlton, Diego Maradona, Franz Beckenbauer et Zinedine Zidane, entre autres, vivront à jamais dans l'esprit des fans de football. Ils ont augmenté leur légende grâce aux exploits qu'ils ont réalisés lors de ce tournoi. Cependant, il existe d'autres grands joueurs qui n'ont jamais pu apporter leur éclat à la Coupe du Monde de la FIFA. Ils appartenaient, toutefois, à l'élite de leurs époques respectives Abedi Pele - Ghana De son vrai nom Abedi Ayew, il a été récompensé trois années consécutives comme footballeur africain dans les années 1990. En club, il a atteint son apogée avec l'Olympique de Marseille en remportant la Ligue des champions en 1993. C'est le seul club français à y parvenir jusqu'à présent. Malheureusement, il a vécu à une époque où le Ghana ne pouvait que rêver de se qualifier pour une Coupe du monde. Ce rêve qui n'a été réalisé qu'en 2006. Lire aussi : Coupe du monde 2022 : Les équipes à surveiller ! Andrei Arshavin - Russie Il a eu la malchance de briller à l'époque où l'équipe nationale russe n'a pas disputé une seule Coupe du monde. C'est-à-dire en Allemagne 2006 et en Afrique du Sud 2010. Il n'a pas été appelé pour Corée-Japon 2002 et Brésil 2014 où il était très jeune et déjà vétéran, respectivement. Cependant, il a offert à ses fans un Euro 2008 mémorable et des moments très agréables en club, notamment avec Arsenal. David Ginola - France En 1999, le légendaire Johan Cruyff est allé jusqu'à qualifier Ginola de meilleur joueur du monde. Il a brillé au cours de cette décennie avec des équipes comme le Paris Saint Germain, Newcastle United et Tottenham Hotspur. Malheureusement, il a eu un impact direct sur la défaite de la France qui l'a privée de sa participation à USA 1994. Il n'a plus été pris en considération pour la Coupe du monde 1998. Son pays y a remporté son premier titre de champion du monde. Ian Rush - Pays de Galles Mentionner Ian Rush, c'est évoquer le Liverpool des années 80 qui a remporté deux Coupes d'Europe (aujourd'hui Ligue des champions). Il a gagné de multiples Premier Leagues, FA Cups, League Cups et Charity Shields. Mais c'est aussi noté qu'il a eu le malheur de souffrir du manque de notoriété du Pays de Galles. Ce qui l'a privé d'une participation à une Coupe du Monde de la FIFA. Lire aussi : Premier League : Le 11 type des joueurs absents au mondial ! Bernd Schuster - Allemagne Une histoire particulière, puisqu'il a vécu l'apogée de sa carrière dans la seconde moitié des années 80 avec le FC Barcelone puis avec le Real Madrid. C'est la période durant laquelle il n'était plus considéré pour l'équipe nationale allemande. Il avait démissionné en 1983, à l'âge de 24 ans, en raison de désaccords avec la Fédération. Il a également eu des différends avec ses coéquipiers et l'entraîneur de l'époque, Jupp Derwall. Ainsi, il n'a pas été inclus dans la seule Coupe du monde à laquelle il aurait pu être appelé, Espagne 1982. Eric Cantona - France C'est un attaquant de classe mondiale. Il s'est fait connaître pour son talent, mais aussi pour son irrévérence et son explosivité en dehors du terrain. Avec Manchester United et l'équipe de France, il a semé les graines du succès, mais ne les a pas vues germer. En 1997, il avait déjà pris sa retraite et n'a pas profité du succès européen de l'équipe de Sir Alex Ferguson. Il en était de même pour titre de champion du monde français en 1998. Il a été exclu de l'équipe de France en 1987 en raison de déclarations controversées contre le sélectionneur de l'époque, Henri Michel. Lors d'USA 1994, il faisait partie de l'équipe qui a perdu sa place dans le tournoi contre la Bulgarie lors des qualifications européennes. Ryan Giggs - Pays de Galles Un homme qui n'a porté que deux maillots en 24 ans de carrière. Celui de Manchester United et celui de l'équipe nationale du Pays de Galles. Avec les Red Devils, il a absolument tout gagné et est devenu une légende. Mais avec son pays, ce fut le contraire et il n'a jamais pu connaître le succès. Il n'a jamais pu participer à une Coupe du monde. En tant qu'entraîneur, il a emmené le Pays de Galles à Qatar 2022. Mais des problèmes juridiques l'ont forcé à démissionner, donc son rêve n'est toujours pas réalisé. Lire aussi : Coupe du monde 2022 : 6 joueurs blessés qui vont (peut-être) rater le mondial George Weah - Liberia Avant que Samuel Eto'o ne brille avec le FC Barcelone, il ne faisait aucun doute que le meilleur footballeur africain de l'histoire était le Libérien George Weah. Il a joué pour des clubs comme Monaco, Paris Saint Germain et Manchester City. Mais c'est avec l'AC Milan, qu'il a épaté le monde en remportant le Ballon d'Or. Il a aussi glané le titre de Joueur mondial de l'année de la FIFA. Ce sont des performances qu'aucun autre footballeur africain n'a jamais réalisées. Avec le Liberia, il n'a pas été en mesure de reproduire ses succès en club. Il lui a manqué un point pour obtenir une qualification historique pour la Coupe du monde Corée-Japon 2002. George Best - Irlande du Nord Il avait vitesse, puissance, adresse et capacité à frapper le ballon avec les deux jambes. George Best est considéré comme l'un des plus grands joueurs de l'histoire du sport. Il a fait partie de la première grande équipe de Manchester United de l'histoire, aux côtés de Denis Law et Robert Bobby Charlton. Dans la fleur de l'âge, il n'a pas été en mesure de mener l'Irlande du Nord à une Coupe du monde, et pour son compte. Lire aussi : Qui va gagner la Coupe du monde 2022 au Qatar ? Voici notre prono ! Read the full article

[asoulofatlantis]

Honestly? Given that this is supposed to be Rheas route, I actually fought we would find her a lot sooner. I mean, I guess Dimitri isn’t really... you know... available for most of his route either, but he is at least there and fight with you. Here it feels more like Seteths route then Rheas ^^’

So that is why you turned mad, yes?

I wonder if they force us through the same battle as in Blue Lions. This one has already been extremely similar.

Me too! So lets do this together! For Dimitri!

Is this the final battle? Did I miss out on the ring-situation were you chose your partner? That was before that battle, right?

Jupp, absolutly the final battle and no Monster-Edelgard this time it seems.

BTW if I really fucked the thing with the Ring up... it is destiny. Female Byleth is not supposed to marry anyone but Dimitri it seems. I am fine with that.

Yes. In fact I do.

Poor Hubert. It must have been really painful for him to write that latter, as he loved Edelgard so much...

You have no idea what I had to sacrifice to save you damn Witch... But whatever...

And here I was... thinking they would keep me in the dark, even now...

Okay... it seems it is not over yet.

I wonder why that is... *achem*

But... it was so adorable to watch you both blush like the cute idiots you are XD

The biggest bother of most of the Support-Scenes in this game is the fact that they only really get interesting when you reach A-Level. There are a few C- and/or B-Level supports that give you important information or insight on a character, but most of them are still rather boring. And sometimes far too long for there own good.

In any case... I am close to the end of “Silver Snow” and I think I can do a quick review now. So here it comes:

First of all, it disappointed me immensely that the White Clouds part seems to be always the same. Especially seeing that you have to go through it 4 times, I would have expected them to change it, depending on whose route your playing. Especially since a lot of the things we do seem to be stupid if you don’t play the Blue Lions. I do get that White Clouds is suppose to happen relatively the same way no matter what house you chose so you can see the difference your choice makes after the time skip. But why not change the missions and hint at the fact that the blue lions do the missions from their route and so on and give the black eagles and golden deers their own missions that are similar but more connected to the characters? I mean, we hear a lot of talk about the family's of the black eagle members but we hardly see anyone of them, while in the blue lions, we have contact with lots of relatives. And also, my conclusion is that White Clouds can get easily boring, following the same missions over and over again.

Second I do like the different dynamics the classes seems to have. Despite Edelgard being the house leader, the black eagles are rather... chaotic and a weird mix of very different people. The blue lions on the other hand seemed a very connected, very calm and loyal bunch of people that work together very well. I am looking forward to seeing the golden deers dynamic.

Next I have to say that I am disappointed that the Black Eagles route (even tho I switches sides at the end of it) did nothing to make me like Edelgard any better. Given my loyalty to Dimitri, she obviously has it rough, but I still thought playing at least part of her route would make me like her a bit more. And tho I do understand her motives a bit better, I do not seem to get to want to support her cause - at all XD

The church-route was interesting, but Rhea only showing up shortly before the final chapter seemed... weird. And - just so you know - there are still a lot of things I don’t know or understand and I really thought I would leave this route knowing more. (There is still some time for answers tho.)

[all-about-cr7]

I hope Cristiano Ronaldo doesn't have his best day against us.

Bayern coach Jupp Heynckes

"Cristiano Ronaldo is the best player in the world, with Lionel Messi. He is absolutely world class. He works hard every day, which is commendable. He has often been decisive. In games like this, the team performance is important. I hope he doesn't have his best day against us."

[bulinews-blog]

We take a look at the best performing players of the Bundesliga in the 2017/18 season.

In the past weekend, Bayern München lifted the Bundesliga trophy, marking the ending of the 2017/18 season. We have looked back at the past season and found the players that impressed us the most: Goalkeeper: Jiri Pavlenka, Werder Bremen Werder Bremen have had an average season, but the goalkeeping from Jiri Pavlenka has been top class. Werder ended the season as 11th in the table, but have the third best defensive record in the league – only edged by Bayern München and Schalke 04. The Czech keeper has let in just 40 goals in 34 games and has saved Werder Bremen numerous times during the season with his incredible reflexes. Right-back: Joshua Kimmich, Bayern München The German international takes the right-back spot without question. Replacing Philipp Lahm, who stopped his career after last season, is certainly no easy task, but Kimmich has done very well to fill the void left by the Bayern legend. Not only has the 23-year-old been extremely solid defensively – he has also contributed well in the offense with one goal and 10 assists. Centre-back: Naldo, Schalke 04 Naldo may have turned 35, but the Brazilian defender has arguably been in the form of his life this season. The big central defender has been a leader and a brick wall in Schalke’s defense and has played an essential part in Schalke’s build-up play with his ability to bring the ball forward using both feet. In the other end of the pitch, Naldo has been one of Schalke’s most potent goal threats with seven Bundesliga goals to his name – only Guido Burgstaller has scored more league goals for Schalke than the Brazilian this season. Centre-back: Mats Hummels, Bayern München The German international has been a constant in Bayern’s central defense and has oozed experienced and calmness regardless of who he has been partnering up with. Hummels is reliable, skilled at bringing the ball forward, positions himself very well and has saved Bayern several times during the season with well-timed tackles and blocked shots. Left-back: Philipp Max, Augsburg Many tipped Augsburg to be among the main relegation candidates before the season, but mainly thanks to a well-oiled offense, the club steered clear of the relegation scrap. With 12 assists and two goals, Max was among the standout performers for Augsburg as he provided pivotal service for high-scoring strikers Alfred Finnbogason and Michael Gregoritsch. Central midfielder: Naby Keita, RB Leipzig The Liverpool-bound central midfielder has had another fine season with six goals and five assists to his name, and he will without doubt be sorely missed by RB Leipzig when he leaves in the summer. With his drive, dribbling ability and high contribution both defensively and offensively, Keita is worth his weight in gold in the central midfield. Right midfielder: Daniel Caligiuri, Schalke 04 Caligiuri has excelled on the right wing-back and has been one of the most consistent players in Domenico Tedesco’s success side, having played all but one Bundesliga match this season. The 30-year-old has been part of a Schalke defense that has the second best defensive record in the league, and he has also been very active offensively. Caligiuri has contributed with 10 assists, and he has also netted six times with memorable solo efforts against Mainz and Borussia Dortmund among his goals. Offensive midfielder: Thomas Müller, Bayern München Müller has really blossomed since Jupp Heynckes took over as Bayern manager in October last year and has been among the club’s best performing players. ‘The Raumdeuter’ has netted eight times and set up 14 goals which makes him the player with most assists in the Bundesliga this season. Offensive midfielder: James Rodriguez, Bayern München It took a little while for the Colombian to settle after his move from Real Madrid, but he has grown into an important player during the season. Rodriguez has a great eye for both his teammates and the goal and has provided 11 assists and netted six times in the league this season. Left midfielder: Leon Bailey, Bayer Leverkusen The 20-year-old had an outstanding first half of the season, and while his performances may have dipped during 2018, he still deserves a spot in the team. When Bailey’s on his best, he is impossible to control by the opponents, and he has the ability to carry a team forward and settle a match on his own. Striker: Robert Lewandowski, Bayern München No other player could keep up with the goals of Robert Lewandowski, who scored 29 goals in 30 appearances – nearly double as many goals as his nearest competitor on the topscorer list. Obviously, the Bayern striker plays for a team that creates a lot of chances for him, but he rarely disappoints in front of the net and scores goals on a very consistent level. Honorable mentions: Sven Ulreich, Bayern München Lars Bender, Bayer Leverkusen Salif Sané, Hannover 96 Benjamin Pavard, Stuttgart Kevin-Prince Boateng, Eintracht Frankfurt Thorgan Hazard, Borussia Mönchengladbach Serge Gnabry, Hoffenheim Michael Gregoritsch, Augsburg Kevin Volland, Bayer Leverkusen Nils Petersen, Freiburg Andrej Kramaric, Hoffenheim Mark Uth, Hoffenheim

[sakrumverum]

dominik: Freundschaft ist das Geheimnis!

<div class="pf-content"><p style="text-align: justify;">Der Sportjournalist Florian Eisele meinte: „Selten war der Titel so verdient wie der Sieg des FC-Bayern in der Champions-League. Alle 11 Spiele gewannen die Münchner… Auch der Sieg Nummer 11 war absolut verdient… Glückwunsch nach München zum Club, der seit Dezember 2019 kein Spiel mehr verloren hat“ (Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung 25.8.2020).<br /> Auf der Siegesfeier sagte der Vorsitzende des FC-Bayern Karlheinz Rummenigge zum Trainer Hansi Flick: „Du bist ein so bescheidener Mensch. Du hast einen Wahnsinnsjob gemacht“. Flick gab das Lob an die Mannschaft weiter: „Wirklich Männer, ich bin so was von stolz, dass wir euch begleiten dürfen… Ich habe noch nie so eine Mannschaft trainiert“. Noch einmal Eisele: „Flick hat aus einer wankenden Truppe ein Champions-Team geformt“.<br /> Was ist das besondere, erwähnenswerte über das hinaus, was nur Fußballfreunde interessiert? Das ist wohl psychologischer Natur. Natürlich sind im FC-Bayern Weltklassespieler. Die gibt es auch in anderen Mannschaften. Der Endspielgegner Paris Saint Germain hatte den höchstbezahlten Superstar Neymar in seinen Reihen. Ohne Zweifel beherrscht der Trainer des FC-Bayern bestens sein Handwerk. Aber auch der Endspielgegner hat mit Thomas Tuchel einen erstrangigen Trainer.<br /> Es muss also etwas hinzukommen, das die Siegesserie des FC-Bayern ausmacht und nicht allein durch Training und körperliche Fitness zu erklären ist. Jürgen Liminski, kein Sportjournalist, drückt es mit „Menschlichkeit“ aus, welche auch „Ball-Gladiatoren“ brauchen. (Tagespost 27.8.20). Er erinnert an Jupp Heynckes, den Flick als sein Vorbild betrachtet und an seinen unkomplizierten Umgang und seine Kameradschaftlichkeit mit den Spielern. Liminski greift noch weiter zurück auf den Weltmeistertrainer Sepp Herberger, der sein Erfolgsgeheimnis mit „11 Freunde müsst ihr sein“ auf den Punkt brachte.<br /> „Freunde“ bei denen sich keiner insgeheim über den Fehler eines Mannschaftskameraden freut, weil das vielleicht eine Möglichkeit zur eigenen Profilierung darstellt. Freundschaft zeigt sich vielmehr darin, dass bei einem Fußballteam die übrigen 10 alles tun, um den Fehler eines Anderen im Interesse des gemeinsamen Ziels auszubügeln.<br /> Sind das idealistische, weltfremde Träume? Offenbar nicht, wie der Erfolg einer Fußballmannschaft zeigt. Es ist der „andere Geist“, den viele kennen, wenn in einem Team nicht das Klima der Konkurrenz sondern Freundschaft herrscht, wenn alles leicht von der Hand geht, Hilfe selbstverständlich zur Stelle ist, wenn sie gebraucht wird, Freude spürbar ist, dann wachsen Menschen über sich hinaus. Wer einen solchen Geist schafft, mobilisiert nicht nur als Fußballtrainer unbekannte Reserven, sondern die Sehnsucht, einem solchen Team anzugehören.</p> <p>Hubert Gindert</p> </div>

--Quelle: http://blog.forum-deutscher-katholiken.de/?p=10581

[jbaeteng]

Bayern Munich's Jerome Boateng talks doubts, daughters and designing with Jay-Z 

Jerome Boateng is now one of a trio of world-class centre-backs at Bayern Munich, but as the Germany international prepares for Tuesday’s UEFA Champions League encounter with Besiktas JK, he has admitted there were times he thought he would never make it big in the beautiful game.

With Boateng set in a star-encrusted Bayern squad along with Mats Hummels and Niklas Süle, the Bundesliga leader's boss, Jupp Heynckes, is spoilt for choice as he ponders his line-up for Tuesday's Last 16 first-leg tie at the Allianz Arena.

Boateng is now royally used to such regal occasions having won a treasure trove of silverware that includes five Bundesliga titles, three DFB Cups and a UEFA Champions League since joining Bayern from Manchester City in 2011.

The switch back to Germany marked the end of a testing period in Boateng's career with his transfer to England derailed by a series of injuries that left the world-class defender wondering whether he would become the star everyone expected him to be.

"This was my dream and I worked hard for it," Boateng explained. "Of course there were situations when I thought it wasn't going to work out the way I wanted.

"I had injuries — even when I was younger I had problems with my back. I had to grow up very fast. So the key point is that you have to believe in yourself and of course you have to be on point when you get the chance. As a young player, you have to perform."

After giving hints of the talent that convinced City to invest in him, Boateng did just that at Bayern, blossoming in Bavaria. The 29-year-old made his 150th Bundesliga appearance for the record German champions in the Matchday 21 win at Mainz, and would surely have had many more but for the injuries that have pockmarked his career.

Still, Boateng acknowledged to Deutsche Welle that, had he not resisted the temptations offered by his hometown, Berlin, growing up, he would never have come close to the success he has achieved.

Fatherly pride

"Your friends want to go out at night, they want to have fun, girls... But this is the time when you have to focus," said Boateng, whose twin daughters, Soley and Lamia, born in 2011, caused him to grow up quickly.

"Fatherhood has changed my whole life. When you have two daughters you are complete. The whole day changes for you. It's a lot about them, how you act, how you feel and when they were born, it's a completely new situation. Of course sometimes you have to say: 'No, this isn't right.' But I always wanted to be a young father and I am very proud of them."

Passion for fashion

They are undoubtedly too, even if they "always say 'you have to score more often'" to their father, world-renowned for the destructive — not creative — arts of the game. The flair that lies within Boateng is mostly expressed off the pitch where his name has helped him indulge his passion for fashion.

Working with musician Jay-Z and his Roc Nation label, the former Hertha Berlin and Hamburg man has developed a range of spectacles while also continuing his near-lifelong flirtation with his other love: footwear.

"My mother always told me you can open a shop," joked Boateng over his sizeable collection of shoes. "It started when I was 13 or 14 years old. 'Oh those shoes, I want to have them in different colours,' I thought. And then it started. I can't stop. I still love shoes, I love sneakers."

To Russia with Löw

Once the Bundesliga season is all tied up, Boateng will not be swapping his studs for sneakers immediately. Though he has plans for a maiden visit to Ghana, the country of his father's birth, next summer, he will first be heading to Russia.

While Süle may also play a part, it is certain Boateng and Hummels will - if fit - form the spine of the Germany team aiming to win back-to-back FIFA World Cups.

"You're always excited before the World Cup," explained the Bayern man, a member of Joachim Löw's squad that lifted football's ultimate prize in Brazil four years ago. "Of course we'll try to win it again, but it will be very hard. We have a good young team. A good mix of young players and some older players, so I'm looking forward to it."

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so, so sad to hear he’s passed away so young 💔 i’m sorry for not posting more radio panel show content, but i feel essentially limited to pr pictures and audio clips. i will certainly try to do more in the future and add links to the masterpost next week x

ah, a jimmy admirer of the lee mack persuasion...

thick as pig shit, we couldn’t do it without him!

good question anon!! hmm a lot of that comes down to how confident i am in my personality and sense of humour right? heh yikes.....might be time to finally take advantage of having been voted class clown in high school?? 😈 i think, everything considered, i’d have to say cats does countdown — some of it’s pre-written, some of it’s improv, i’m really good at the game, there’s lots of people to play off of, it’s a lengthy recording so i’d have time to settle in. i’d just want very inherently friendly, ego-less people who will accept me as one of their peers immediately so i could feel i could participate, so certainly joe wilkinson, maybe uhh miles jupp, bob mortimer, johnny vegas, david mitchell?? am i overthinking this lol

10 points to gryffindor women 👏👏

i’m not in the business of telling people how to feel about certain issues and areas of social discourse. i only want to remind people that all comedy is problematic, and how or if you engage with it is completely up to you and your sensibilities x

i certainly do x

akjdfhglkfdajhglak welcome to the fan club. we meet every wednesday for poker and sherry 🍷

yes! and fuck yes! one of my fave series and i probably know every line of in the loop by heart — quiz me!!

(i should gif that, huh? hmmmmm)

i searched his twitter history and only found this!

but who doesn't have massive, ties only respect for mel 🤔🤔🤔

she is SO CUTE i have to resist the urge to make her sweetie pie pic of the week every week!! i would loved to have seen her on the fix, but i’m not sure she actually wants her career to go in that direction. did you see rovers? she was so good!!

*has reblogged 2 posts ever containing henning wehn on a blog with 4k posts* *makes no content featuring henning wehn* “i actively dislike henning wehn” (and what do you mean “you people”)