Comments on: He, Manni Manni – Manni, Manni, Manni Burgsmuller

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:01:25 +0000

True, but in reality they aren’t and I’m not calling China a big football nation, just because they have the theoretical potential to be one.

By: RWE

RWE — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:35:27 +0000

I’d be careful of calling RWE a small club. If it had not been for financial mismanagement in the past they would certainly be ahead of clubs such as Bochum and Schalke in terms of fans in the region.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:19:29 +0000

Andre, Yes the unremitting failure. Don’t you just love it.
It’s a shame no-one decided to buy Alexander Löbe for big bucks – one of the worst RWE players of all time and certainly the worst captain.

Jan, Thought I might have been treading on old ground but glad I have not. I found his career interesting.

A story about him appeared in my Google Alerts e-mails – normally the only stories they send me are the ones I’ve written myself for my RWE blog!

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:45:15 +0000

I started following the Bundesliga in 1990 and missed out on Burgsmüller, so I only knew his name, because people kept referring to him quite often. So this was a welcome insight into his career!

Andre: I guess there are many clubs who have a similarly tragic history. A lot of smaller clubs often unearth great talent, that gets snatched away by the big boys all the time, preventing the smaller club from making it back to the centre stage.

By: Andre

Andre — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:34:40 +0000

During the 7ties and beginning 8ties RWE created a bunch of excellent strikers like Lippens, the mighty Hrubesch, Frank Mill or Jürgen Wegmann to name only the most famous. Sadly they had to sell them all and so never made it back to the Bundesliga (where those players played very succesfully for other teams after they’d left the
club). This is another tragic part of the more recent RWE history, a story of unremitting failure!