Mats Hummels playes Twitter better than his game at the moment

So Mats decided to answer Twitter questions since he isn't playing and training, may be too bored. And this came out. Brilliant!

  

Love will destroy you ?

Some things, once you've loved them, become yours forever. 

And if you try to let them go, they only circle back and return to you.

They become part of who you are... 



Or they destroy you.

          -- quote from Kill Your Darlings 

         

Emoji Celebration

It has been a difficult season for Borussia Dortmund so far in Bundesliga, bottom at the table and had lost 5 games in a row. The pressure must be mountain high for the coach and players. The championship is a forego thing now, hopefully BVB can still manage to quality for the CL next season. It will be such a shame if they didn't, imagine the bottom team in Bundesliga is actually at the top of group D and who said EPL is better than Bundesliga? :-)

Certain Marco Reus still managed to celebrate his goals with some creativity that buzzed the net.

He said it has got nothing to do with the excessive rumours and the overly discussed topic by others about his future. But we kind of like related to it, he is not going to read and listen to any of those rumours; and definitely he won't tell us about his decision until the time is right. So all those Liverpool, Arsenal, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, Chelsea, Man City and Uniteds' fan please hold your peace until than.

Sunday Nights with Mr Acker Bilk

Dedicated to the man whose song illuminated so many of my Sunday Nights.

Alan Zechariah and Reezal Abdullah spun many excellent songs in their radio show "Memories are Made of This" on Sunday nights. I loved that show and made it a point to tune in whenever I could. Not only were the songs lovely, but they managed to find so many really obscure songs that I used it like a Discovery Channel for old time music. It was a brilliant show and there was great regret on my part when the station decided to end the show.

But always ..... always, the highlight of the show was Acker Bilk's "Stranger on the Shore". The song bookended the show and, be it in my room or in the car, the first strains of that clarinet invariably drew me into the song. There are many songs that I like, fewer that are favourites, even less if you were to ask me for the first few to pop into my mind. This is one of those 'lesser than few' songs.



Rest In Peace, Mr Acker Bilk.