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A UNIQUE FRIENDSHIP

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OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE

OFFIZIELLEN PRESSEMITTEILUNG

 

 

Liverpool FC/Borussia Moenchengladbach 4th consecutive Fan party

in Liverpool City Centre was "an outstanding success".

 

 

Friday, 30th December 2011.

 

The 2011 Borussia Moenchengladbach supporters annual friendship visit to Liverpool to support the Reds & 4th consecutive LFC/BMG annual Supporters Fan Party was an "outstanding success" stated LFC/BMG Fan party organiser Graham Agg. He stated "it was an honour for the Liverpool supporters to once again host as guests our friends from the Borussia Moenchengladbach Official Supporters Club".

 

The Gladbach fans were making their 20th consecutive friendship visit to Liverpool to support the Reds since 1992, and it was back in 1991 a delegation of Borussia Moenchengladbach supporters flew to Liverpool to present a cheque for 21,000 Deutsch Marks (approximately £7000) to the families of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster - an amazing gesture that has never been forgotten on Merseyside.

 

This year the Borussia supporters even brought their own band from Germany, the fantastic German Band "The Drunken Lullabies"! They sang Irish folk music and were truly outstanding as the packed audience in Flanagans Irish pub on Mathew Street, Liverpool City Centre were soon dancing along to their music.

 

Legendary Borussia supporter Thomas "Jonny" Polcher, who is the solitary Borussia supporter who has attended every single friendship visit to Liverpool since 1992 spoke to the assembled audience, also Graham Agg, who has organised an annual LFC Supporters friendship visit from Liverpool to Moenchengladbach since 2007, addressed the audience and thanked the Borussia supporters for their continual support and friendship.

 

Borussia Moenchengladbach are currently riding high in fourth position in the German Bundesliga with real hopes of qualifying for the 2012/2013 UEFA Champions League and with Liverpool also just outside the UEFA Champions League qualifying places it is real hope for these supporters that possibly both clubs could meet in Europe's Premier competition next season and show the rest of Europe a friendship that is absolutely unique in world football.

 

FOOTNOTE:- The 2012 & 6th consecutive LFC supporters friendship visit to Moenchengladbach will take place from Friday 27th April to Monday 30th April 2012 when Borussia are hosting FC Augsburg in the German Bundesliga in their last home match of the 2011/2012 Bundesliga season. Any LFC supporters wishing to join the LFC fans on their next friendship visit should contact organiser Graham via grahamlfc@aol.com for further information.

 

 

 

Please see reports below from the official LFC website & the Liverpool Echo newspaper:-

 

Borussia Moenchangladbach fans make 20th annual pilgrimage to Liverpool FC - Liverpool FC News - Liverpool FC - Liverpool Echo

 

 

German Reds to attend Magpies clash - Liverpool FC

 

A unique friendship - Liverpool FC

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OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE

OFFIZIELL PRESSEMITTEILUNG

 

 

 

LIVERPOOL FC & BORUSSIA MG- EINE GANZ BESONDERE FREUNDSCHAFT

 

LIVERPOOL FC & BORUSSIA MG- A VERY SPECIAL FRIENDSHIP

 

2012 LIVERPOOL FC SUPPORTERS FRIENDSHIP VISIT TO MOENCHENGLADBACH - Friday 27th April to Monday 30th April 2012

 

 

Eighty one Liverpool FC supporters recently made their 6th consecutive Friendship visit since 2007 to Moenchengladbach in Germany to yet again consolidate and enhance even further a very special friendship that goes back over 30 years to the 70’s decade.

 

The LFC supporters who made the trek to Moenchengladbach, the vast majority were from the Merseyside region but there were also LFC fans from Southampton, Crewe, Wales & Ireland, and a group of Holland Reds from the official LFC Supporters Club in Holland(AIB), and German Reds from the official LFC Supporters Club in Germany(AIB) and amazingly one LFC supporter who travelled all the way from Brisbane, Australia.

 

Organiser Graham Agg stated that once again the annual friendship visit was “a resounding success”. Agg also stated that he would like “to thank all the travelling Liverpool FC supporters for being superb ambassadors for Liverpool Football Club and the City of Liverpool and that this weekend has proven yet again that the Borussia Moenchengladbach & Liverpool FC friendship is “absolutely unique in world football”.

 

The 2012 LFC Supporters annual Moenchengladbach Friendship visit was once again fully endorsed by Liverpool Football Club. For the 6th consecutive year the Liverpool FC Public Relations department presented friendship trip organiser Agg with a gift to present to the Gladbach official supporters Club during the visit to Germany.

Also legendary Liverpool FC Stadium announcer George Sephton, the longest serving stadium announcer in the world, also sent a gift, a framed message to the Borussia supporter’s thanking them for their very special friendship.

 

Liverpool FC & Borussia Moenchengladbach met in the UEFA Cup final in 1973, Liverpool winning 3-2 on aggregate and they also met again in the1977 European cup final in the eternal city of Rome where Liverpool FC won their first ever of their five European cups, the Reds running out 3-1 winners. The two European giants met again the following season 1977/78 in the semi-final of the European Cup, Liverpool winning 4-2 on aggregate.

 

Since these famous clashes their has been a very special friendship between the two sets of supporters which has resulted in Borussia MG supporters travelling to Liverpool every year since 1992 during the Bundesliga winter break to support the Reds at Anfield, and LFC supporters led by Graham Agg, have travelled to Gladbach annually since 2007.

 

 

In 1991, a delegation of Borussia Moenchengladbach supporters travelled to Liverpool to present a cheque for 21000 Deutsch Marks (APPROXIMATELY £7000) for the Hillsborough families, an amazing gesture that has NEVER been forgotten on Merseyside.

 

This year’s LFC supporters Friendship visit to Moenchengladbach took place from Friday 27th April to Monday 30th April 2012. The trip involved a stadium tour of the impressive 54000 capacity Borussia Park, Borussia’s new home since 2004, which even has a corporate hospitality suite called the “Liverpool” suite! Also on the agenda and highlight of the visit was guaranteed match tickets to watch Borussia in Bundesliga action versus FC Augsburg.

 

LFC supporters were amongst the completely sold out 54,000 plus attendance at the Borussia Park stadium on Saturday 28th April 2012 to support Borussia in their fight to claim their first ever appearance in the UEFA Champions League versus Bundesliga strugglers FC Augsburg.

 

Just before kick off veteran Borussia Moenchengladbach stadium announcer Torsten Knippertz welcomed the travelling Liverpool supporters to Borussia Park & the town of Moenchengladbach.

 

The Liverpool supporters unfortunately saw Borussia, who are currently situated fourth in the Bundesliga table, only draw 0-0 with FC Augsburg, but this result ensured that Borussia guaranteed themselves a UEFA Champions League qualifying play-off match in August.

 

On match day the Liverpool FC supporters were once again invited to an all day Fan Party in the Borussia official “Fanhaus” situated near the stadium with amazing scenes of friendship between the Borussia & Liverpool supporters. Liverpool supporters once again unveiled a friendship flag with the words “A very special friendship” and also Rob Stott R I P - YNWA. This was in memory of legendary LFC supporter Rob Stott who sadly died this year and was instrumental in helping organiser Graham Agg planning the annual visits to Gladbach.

 

On Friday evening, 27th April, the Liverpool FC supporters embarked on a tour of the Moenchengladbach “Alt Stadt”, the famous Old Town in Moenchengladbach with amazing scenes of friendship between the Gladbach & LFC supporters.

 

Graham Agg, addressed the assembled audience and spoke of how important the Borussia MG & Liverpool FC friendship is to the Liverpool supporters and thanked the Borussia supporters for their unbelievable friendship and hospitality during their stay.

 

Special guest on the friendship visit this year was book author Chris Shaw, whose book “Our Liverpool” about Liverpool’s worldwide support included a whole chapter about the unique LFC/BMG friendship and the friendship visit he accompanied the LFC supporters on during their visit in 2010.

 

After the Borussia match, LFC supporters watched LFC’s outstanding 3-0 away victory Live at Carrow Road versus Norwich at the Borussia “Fan Haus”.

Organiser Agg stated that he wishes “to thank Thomas “Tower” Weinmann (Borussia MG Fan Liaision Officer), Matthes Neumann & Jonny Thomas Polcher (BMG Fan Projekt) for their help in organising the friendship visit, also Willi Hartmann & his wife Silke, life long Borussia supporter’s Helmut & Molly Gromotka, the Borussia Moenchengladbach fans, and the citizens of the town of Moenchengladbach for their unbelievable hospitality and friendship shown to the Liverpool fans during their stay and is already looking forward to the 2013 & 7th consecutive friendship visit next year”.

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The absolute unique friendship between Liverpool FC supporters and the fans of German Bundesliga team Borussia Moenchengladbach will once again be in evidence at the weekend at St James Park, Newcastle as both sets of supporters meet up in Geordieland to support Borussia Moenchengladbach in their pre-season friendly versus Newcastle on Saturday 1st August - kick off is at 3.00 pm.

All LFC supporters making the trip, who wish to know where the official meeting place is to meet up with the LFC & BMG fans before & after the match - please contact me ASAP for further information, thank you.

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