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by **The Red Baron** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 3:19 pm

Did we break the record when we signed Beardsley?

by **ConnO'var** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 3:32 pm

The Red Baron wrote:Did we break the record when we signed Beardsley?

Spot on mate.... after Dalglish, the next time we broke the record was when we got Beardsley.... in 1987 for for 1.9 million quid......

We broke the record twice more....

Hazard a guess?

by **The Red Baron** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 3:40 pm

Dont like to cheat and use google on these so I just asked my mate

he reckons Dean Saunders just guesing really.

by **ConnO'var** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 3:55 pm

The Red Baron wrote:Dont like to cheat and use google on these so I just asked my mate he reckons Dean Saunders just guesing really.

Right again!

It was Saunders in '91 for 2.9 million....

Last one was in '95... Stan Collymore for 8.5 million quid.....

Just imagine....

1977 to 1987 - Record fee quadrupled from 440,000 to 1.9 million [11 years]
1977 to 1991 - It went up 6.5 times to 2.9 million [15 years]
1977 to 1995 - A massive 19 times [19 years]
1977 to 2002 - An enormous 66 times to 29.1 million quid [26 years] -for the tw@t Ferdinand.....

Suspect it's even more now that Chelski has Shevchenko... can't be confirmed as the fee was never fully disclosed....

Wonder if the average plumber's income has increased 66 fold in the same time frame?!!

by **The Red Baron** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:02 pm

Thanks for that I was getting splinters scratching my head.

Next question chaps.

by **Kash_Mountain** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:49 pm

What is the meaning of Spion Kop in Afrikaans?

by **The Red Baron** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:55 pm

Spion kop was a hill were a battle took place in the Boer war

by **The Red Baron** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 4:15 am

Kash_Mountain wrote:What is the meaning of Spion Kop in Afrikaans?

Sorry misread your question.

by **The Red Baron** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 1:21 pm

Kash_Mountain wrote:What is the meaning of Spion Kop in Afrikaans?

Go on then give us the translation.

by **Leonmc0708** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 1:29 pm

Look upon or look over.

by **Kash_Mountain** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 11:29 pm

Leonmc0708 wrote:Look upon or look over.

Yeah in a way. It translates as a Vantage Point.

by **adamnbarrett** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 11:41 pm

Kash_Mountain wrote:
Leonmc0708 wrote:Look upon or look over.

Yeah in a way. It translates as a Vantage Point.

Afrikaans name for the battle is Spioenkop, spioen for spy or look out and kop meaning hill or outcropping. Logical then that, at the end of the 1905/6 season, the new brick and cinder banking at Anfield should be christened the Spion Kop.

It was named in honour of the many Merseysiders who died vainly trying to take the hill against overwhelming odds during the Boer War.

by **Ciggy** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 11:50 am

It is said to be rumoured that Hitler was a regular on the Kop, his brother actually lived in Liverpool, but is this just a Myth?

by **Lionheart** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:34 pm

Ciggy wrote:It is said to be rumoured that Hitler was a regular on the Kop, his brother actually lived in Liverpool, but is this just a Myth?

I thought Hitler was an only child. And I very much doubt that he would have been a Kop regular as he tended more to the arts than sport.

I think that one is pure myth Ciggy.

by **CardinalRed** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:19 pm

When exactly could Hitler have been a "regular" he's not supposed to have left Austria much before WW1 and after that his life is pretty well documented (apparently he went to prison, wrote a book, started the Nazi's and plunged the World into a 6 year nightmare) can't see him cheering Elisha Scott on somehow.....!
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