Champions League 2018/19: A Visca Wanda

[EIM]

We saw it this morning, and it was recommended to me by an Australian who came in my pub a few days the other week. I think I'll go back to Bern one day, see it properly, because I didn't do the funicular either, and I love a funicular.

[Wouter D]

Sorry, just to check, you got the original Mott the Hoople reference?

No. I'm Dutch. What is a Hoople?

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Mott the Hoople.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Though this is the song in question.

warning sounds like status quo doing a bowie impersonation.

[Ray de Galles]

Like that’s a bad thing!

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

It is.

[Ray de Galles]

Well, Quo just being Quo would be better obviously...but Bowie was OK.

[Patrick Thistle]

No. I'm Dutch. What is a Hoople?

If this doesn't win OTF post of the year then the whole contest is an absolute fucking sham.

[Jah Womble]

Agree, but it'll go to a usual suspect. It's like the Mercury in that respect.

Mott The Hoople were at least 186,702 levels above Status Quo. (And were briefly quite big in the Netherlands.)

[Duncan Gardner]

There can never be too many Mott references on OTF. I offer the panel a few facts and invite you to draw conclusions:

1 the young Theresa May's best mate at Oxford University was another future politician, Benazir Bhutto. Let's hope Terri's end isn't similarly violent...

2 Probably with this in mind, Benazir didn't worry about student politics. Her father, Zulfikar, also served as Pakistani PM before being overthrown by the Army and later hanged. Instead, young BB was a keen follower of the Herefordshire rockers and ran their fan club for a time

3 One of the band's best-loved songs 'Born late '58' refers an under-age groupie

As for the Quo, not ALL of their songs have only 2 or 3 chords, according to my Teach Yourself Ukebook

PS Mott vocalist Ian Hunter (aged 80) still gigs occasionally in his hometown Oswestry. Haircut hasn't changed significantly since days of chart stardom (see also Timothy B Schmidt, Brian May, Cosmo Clifford etc)

[Jah Womble]

Football's really changed, eh?

[3 Colours Red]

Mott The Hoople were at least 186,702 levels above Status Quo. (And were briefly quite big in the Netherlands.)

Wouter's also one of the youngest OTFers, I believe. His youth rather than nationality seems to be the issue.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

If this doesn't win OTF post of the year then the whole contest is an absolute fucking sham.

I clearly don't understand, and now feel foolish.

[Satchmo Distel]

This has reminded me of a teenage problem I had - see "Singers You Mixed Up As A Teenager" in the Music thread.

[Wouter D]

Wouter's also one of the youngest OTFers, I believe. His youth rather than nationality seems to be the issue.

This may very well be the case, though I don't think I am _the_ youngest. I'm 33 years old. I think we also have somebody in their late twenties.

[3 Colours Red]

Who would that be then? Off the top of my head, the only ones I know for certain are younger than me are you, Flynnie, Sam, denishurley and Fussbudget.

[Lang Spoon]

Roryfsmith fer sure

[Toby Gymshorts]

I am 19 years old.

[Jah Womble]

Man City 1-0 down in Hoffenheim within the first minute...

[ursus arctos]

Dybala puts Juve in front of Young Boys a couple of minutes later.

[Jah Womble]

Aguero equalises on seven minutes. Might be a decent game, this.

[ad hoc]

The Man City game is being spoiled by an officious and not very good ref.

[ad hoc]

The Hoffenheim manager makes Owen Jones look like a haggard old man

[ad hoc]

Ref's just denied Man City a stonewall penalty

[San Bernardhinault]

That's a shocking decision.