I think it was 78 when I was there. Great place. I think they reckoned they had 200 bars, and it was only a smallish place.
Strange synchronicity or whatever, but I'm off this afternoon over to Utrecht, teaching there for the week, though there must be something on there this week as all the decent'ish hotels are fully booked.
Not sure what the Hotel I finally managed to get a room in is going to be like, but I've likely stayed in a lot worse over the years so I'm not that fazed.
I'll report back on the bars next weekend....
On other things, I like to think that this won't be the last time we'll see the end of a fantastic career of a Liverpool lad at LFC, but I'm not too confident.
I can't help but think those days have perhaps drawn to an end.
Us lot in here, our generations, have undoubtedly been very fortunate to have seen perhaps the best of times and to also have so many great memories of great days.
Sadly, while I hope I'm wrong, I'm not convinced that todays kids will ever get to experience quite what we did and what we almost took for granted.
But that main forum, oh deary me, there's some right head-the-balls in there.
One of the first posts I made on here
way back "All I ask, is to just remember that the most important thing is that support is meant to be through the bad times, as well as the good. It's what it's all about. "It seems some just want it all and want it now.
