Denis Bergkamp retires
Denis who? Well, if you do not know who he is, you can skip this one. Unless you are a football fan who watches football on TV once every 4 years to discuss the World Cup at work. Most other football fans would know who he is. In 1994, many years after I actually started watching the game on TV, I still did not recognise the name on a t-shirt someone was wearing. But in a couple of years, Bergkamp had cemented my admiration for the Dutch national team and my favourite club, Arsenal.
If not for aviophobia (fear of flying), the world would have known more of this player who I place in the same class as Zidane (no head-butts, of course). I was lucky enough to watch him play in concert with the great Henry for Arsenal. And who can forget that great 1998 World Cup performance in France (he probably travelled by the Chunnel from England - thanks all you bondholders who funded this financially disastrous venture)!
All you folks who don't care, thanks for reading this note up to this stage. Might as well take the trouble to watch this YOUTUBE video and the BBC sport slideshow. Those who do care....ENJOY! Look out for the 1998 goal against Argentina (in those familiar blue stripes).
If not for aviophobia (fear of flying), the world would have known more of this player who I place in the same class as Zidane (no head-butts, of course). I was lucky enough to watch him play in concert with the great Henry for Arsenal. And who can forget that great 1998 World Cup performance in France (he probably travelled by the Chunnel from England - thanks all you bondholders who funded this financially disastrous venture)!
All you folks who don't care, thanks for reading this note up to this stage. Might as well take the trouble to watch this YOUTUBE video and the BBC sport slideshow. Those who do care....ENJOY! Look out for the 1998 goal against Argentina (in those familiar blue stripes).
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