Barca or Schalke

Barca because i've booked my flights

Leverkusen team was mint.

I was in Dusseldorf at the time and saw a fair bit of them.

V good players all peaking (c.f. Waynes Ear's) at the same time with a suitably bonkers manager (Toppmoeller).

That year they were runners up in the German Cup, Bundesliga, Champion's League (that Zidane volley) and Germany were runners up in the Japorean world cup.

Ballack, Neuville, Ramelow, Hans Joerg Butt (the keeper) and Jens Nowotny (I think) provided a solid Germanic streak - with Berbatov, Lucio and some Argentinian left back on rare form too whose name escapes me.

Still should have beaten them though

Edit: missed the earlier emails - yes, Bernd Schneider the fag smoker on the right, Ze Roberto on the left and they were a bloody good team.

I suspect it was me in my Moonmanhead days saying we should sign Ramelow, Schneider and Ballack. And I was suggesting Podolski a few years back. Torsten Frings was always my number one choice though - what a signing he would have been for us....