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Liverpuddlians unite!

Friday, March 6th, 2009 | Personal, Sport | 3 Comments

We are proud to announce the start of a new organisation dedicated to football and free software.

GLO

GLO – Gothenburg Liverpool Organisation

GLO – Gothenburg GNU/Linux organisation

Depending on the mood we’re in and in what context the member is currently in, we may use any of the two different meanings of the acronym.

To join the organisation, you must:

• be a Free Software supporter
• be a Liverpool FC supporter
• live in Gothenburg

GLO’s first meeting ever is held at Plain Kitchen in Gothenburg March 10, 20.00

Ingo’s dead – Swedish boxer died, 76 years old

Saturday, January 31st, 2009 | Sport | No Comments

Ingemar ‘Ingo’ Johansson just died, at the age of 76. He was Sweden’s first, and still the only, world champion in heavyweight boxing.

A story famous among my relatives is when my dad’s cousin (I believe it was with his father) went to see the game between Ingo and Eddie Machen in 1958 at Ullevi in Gothenburg. They were both hungry so they decided to stand in line for a sausage. As they were standing there waiting the game started. And ended. Only 2 minutes and 16 seconds later after the start. My dad’s cousin saw nothing. But he sure heard a lot of screaming.

I will see if I can find the old Rekordmagasinet and read some contemporary texts about Ingo.

Nils Liedholm has passed away

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 | Sport | No Comments

A great player, trainer and person has left us. Nils Liedholm died yesterday. Wikipedia and other sites have information about his achivements so I will not bother you about that.I will write some personal words.
I met Nils when AS Roma was in Gothenburg the 80s. I went down together with my friends to see them training. Those days AS Roma had players like Bruno Conti, Falcao and they were all trained by Nils, so seeing AS Roma train was something special. Once at the arena (Ullevi) we couldn’t get in. When starting to give up I was asked by someone I recognized from TV if we wanted in to get in. Well of course we said yes, and the reporter said to the guards that we were with him (Staffan Lindeborg… finally you’re getting a big thanks!!!!). We got in. We could see the Falcao. We could Conti. And Nils. And I even spoke with Nils. Even though he wasn’t that interested in me he was very nice and gave me some autographs and some nice photos. I still have them and I consider them to be among the most precious things. Not because of the value. Only because of the memory.

During the training I was caught by the guards (where were you then Staffan?). They yelled at me and I was pushed into a room. A small room. Alone. And I couldn’t open it. Very soon they opened it and then a Brazilian reporter used the room to interview Falcao. Yup, I stayed there in the room. In a room with my idol Falcao. He was writing so many autographs for me. It was a strange feeling.

After the training we went on to try to get in to their hotel. We didn’t of course since there were guards outside. But all of a sudden one guard lost control and we got in. Yes, we were inside the hotel. And we could see the Roma players eating. In another room. We crept behind some flowers and managed to sneak in to the room. We crept until we reached Nils’ table (I know this sounds a but stupid and perhaps even a story made up). Then we asked for more autographs. And we got them. We really did. Nils laughed about it. A couple of seconds later we were thrown out of the hotel and not so kindly asked to not come back. But we were happy. Probably the happiest people on the planet.

So this is my memory of Nils. Nice, warm and friendly. Even towards a fans without any sense of how to behave.
… and of course I remember when Nils was part of winning Serie A .

Underbart – ett fotboll-manager-spel

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006 | Sport | 1 Comment

Wow, som av en slump snubblade jag på följande spel:

bygfoot

Spelet är släppt under GPL och därmed fritt att användas. Kanske skulle man ge sig på att starta upp en tråd som skapar en svenska liga? Hmmm, något att tänka på inför VM!