NWR Jürgen Klopp - the best ambassador for Germany and Football

The mums and dads at my school were all ultra-competitive as can be as regards all public sporting, dramatic or musical activities. I would have banned many of them from the touchline. There was even some serious paternal chew (“Calm down Angus!”) one year over a perceived unjust result in the bagpipes quaich (the most unmissable of all the annual music prize competitions - the standard of performance was quite astonishing).
 
Alex Lake said:
But they still have to get decent A-level grades, right? I suspect it does effectively avoid the "not getting an offer" challenge. I'll check with Joanna....
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No not necessarily. Unconditional offers are more common for these scholarships. We gave quite a few unconditional offers at my college when I was doing some of the interviews due to lack of applicants and a desire to fill the role.
 
When I applied to Cambridge it was very common for people to sit an additional university examination, and a large proportion of applicants would already have their A-level results by the time they applied, so the offer would be unconditional; I'm not sure how common that is these days, though the most recent member of my family to apply to Cambridge did in fact take a year out as a choral Scholar in Hereford before applying to King's, spending three years there and graduating in 2019.
 
Fair to say he apologized deeply and admitted that this should not have happened.

He is a man of passion and he was always like this in all these years in Germany. Even as a TV commentator for football games he had strong word fights with football players like for example Oliver Kahn who is also not a shy guy.

At the end of the day he must show that his remorse and apology is really trustworthy and as a consequence be kind to referees in the future. Otherwise he will loose credibility. Of course Jürgen Klopp is also just a human being, BUT with his status he should do better and behave like a role-model.

Especially in these times when people around the world have problems to disagree in the right or polite way. Everything is so polarized these days, in Germany too.
 
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Will Devize said:
Re cut-price Oxbridge places, I don’t know why anyone would go to the bother of learning to play the organ, studying all the pieces then taking an exhausting, nerve-wracking audition when you could just apply to read Geography instead.
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Not many colleges accept geography students as it’s not seen as a serious degree. I guess you could always get into Girton :p
 
Just had friends visiting from England (aiming to Val d'Isere). They moved last year from London to close to Wells (not far from Bristol). The 3 kids (8 to 13 years old) go to a private school down there and we were regaled to singing and piano playing (no organ or violin in our place) after diner. The pictures from their (musical) displays at school make it look like old traditional English (with a bit Harry Porter...). So, good old traditions are still alive and they may join OxBridge later in their life. Really a joy to have them for a short stay and enjoy old British traditions upheld.

(confession: he is French/Italian, she is South Korean... but the kids are really British, talk about assimilation...)... We treated them to French culinary traditions.
 
Antoine Singer said:
Just had friends visiting from England (aiming to Val d'Isere). They moved last year from London to close to Wells (not far from Bristol). The 3 kids (8 to 13 years old) go to a private school down there and we were regaled to singing and piano playing (no organ or violin in our place) after diner. The pictures from their (musical) displays at school make it look like old traditional English (with a bit Harry Porter...). So, good old traditions are still alive and they may join OxBridge later in their life. Really a joy to have them for a short stay and enjoy old British traditions upheld.

(confession: he is French/Italian, she is South Korean... but the kids are really British, talk about assimilation...)... We treated them to French culinary traditions.
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Are they really “British”? What you describe is something that is totally alien to the the 99.99% of us Brits?
 
They all have a British passport and the 3 kids were born in London!… and get a very British upbringing
They all have adopted British culture including old claret (parents only)
 
Antoine Singer said:
Just had friends visiting from England (aiming to Val d'Isere). They moved last year from London to close to Wells (not far from Bristol). The 3 kids (8 to 13 years old) go to a private school down there and we were regaled to singing and piano playing (no organ or violin in our place) after diner. The pictures from their (musical) displays at school make it look like old traditional English (with a bit Harry Porter...). So, good old traditions are still alive and they may join OxBridge later in their life. Really a joy to have them for a short stay and enjoy old British traditions upheld.

(confession: he is French/Italian, she is South Korean... but the kids are really British, talk about assimilation...)... We treated them to French culinary traditions.
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Sounds like a fab time and lovely children.
 
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