La Lower Liga

[Xàbia Shrimper]

If anyone is mildly interested, I will be making a fool of myself on Sky Sports 1 this evening at 5.30pm GMT on the special 'La Lower Liga' - "exploring the English influence on Spanish football, focusing on CD Javea, who play in the equivalent of the Blue Square Premier League and have a large English population". They have been filming us for the last four months - and you may even spy SZ lurkers Axeman and Barry Harris in the footage ...

 

[lee_sufc]

Cool, will Sky+ this.

 

[Uncle Leo]

If anyone is mildly interested, I will be making a fool of myself on Sky Sports 1 this evening at 5.30pm GMT on the special 'La Lower Liga' - "exploring the English influence on Spanish football, focusing on CD Javea, who play in the equivalent of the Blue Square Premier League and have a large English population". They have been filming us for the last four months - and you may even spy SZ lurkers Axeman and Barry Harris in the footage ...

For a minute I thought that this was going to be a thread about where Real Betis are headed :cry: .

Will probably be en route to the in-laws at 5:30, but I'll Sky+ it, sounds interesting.

 

[Xàbia Shrimper]

And to give it some sort of relation to Southend United: Kenny Brown, one-time loanee at Roots Hall, is our manager ...

 

[Kenny]

Good to see you back on here Mike, even if it is just for a shameless plug!

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

Anyone watching it??

 

[mattytheshrimper]

I'm watching it now. what one is xabia? im guessing he is the one walking along the beach with sunglasses on. sounds like a southend boy.

 

[The General]

I'm watching it now. what one is xabia? im guessing he is the one walking along the beach with sunglasses on. sounds like a southend boy.

No. He is a little larger than that fella ...

Kev

( and yes, that was me trying to put it nicely! )

:D

 

[J]

was he the homosexual one on the beach?

 

[mattytheshrimper]

No. He is a little larger than that fella ...

Kev

( and yes, that was me trying to put it nicely! )

:D

who is he then?

 

[canveyshrimper]

who is he then?

The bloke on screen now.

 

[mattytheshrimper]

The bloke on screen now.

theres a spanish lady on screen. lol

 

[canveyshrimper]

theres a spanish lady on screen. lol

Yup, that's him.:hilarious:

 

[mattytheshrimper]

they are losing.

 

[McNasty]

You can't miss him, he's dipping his toes in the Med.

 

[mattytheshrimper]

good programme overall i thought

 

[Xàbia Shrimper]

Good to see you back on here Mike, even if it is just for a shameless plug!

Been really busy with the bar and the football club over the past couple of months (I'm a director of the club now). I lurk but time prevents usual input for the moment - normality should return soon!

Good programme, even if there was a little bit of "artistic licence" (we got stuffed at Santa Pola for instance). Made us wish for the warm weather to return asap; it's freezing here at the moment!

The ex-Portsmouth guy they spoke to had a trial with CD Javea in the summer and he was (to put it mildly) ****e. I think he's rapidly approaching 40 (aren't we all?! :( ) and thought that the standard at our level would be easy. However he was very much the fish out of water, struggling to contain the rings ran around him by good, technical players almost half his age, and we never saw him again. There's a decent ex-pat Sunday league going; maybe he should look at that!

It's on again tonight at 19:30 GMT.

 

[Kenny]

Good programme, I was intrigued by the official welcome the Javeamigos got for their away game. Reminded me of tailgating in the States. Can't imagine it ever taking off the next time Millwall play West Ham though.

Was funny seeing Mike sitting at the head table in the Mayors chambers.

 

[Shrimpersarmy]

Good drumming skills there, Mike...;) :D

 

[peanut12]

watched it too and found it very interesting. As a spanish speaker and teacher, I love to see this kind of thing as it promotes the need for a foreign language to the youth of today. Well done guys

Viva Javea