Gijón

Um, and that was about Hull, and about one particular player for Hull, which is Beloumi.

And if I remember that his dad also played for Algeria, and he was wrapped up in the controversy with the disgrace of Gijón, as it was called, in 1982, where Germany and Austria played for that debacle, and sent Algeria out as a result of that.

So I've got a slight feeling that Hull are gonna do really well because of Beloumi, and he scored two at the weekend, of course.

So-

Right.

Well, um, it all started with a fairly conventional day, um, heading towards a bunch sprint in Gijón.

I was traveling with, uh, former professional Graeme Jones, um, who was also working on the race that day.

Um, and I remember we got about, like, 50 kilometers to go in Gijón.

He says, "Oh, somebody said, uh, like, a plane, a light plane has crashed into the Twin Towers." And I thought, "Oh, well, you know, so what?" And, um, wasn't really too interested because it didn't sound like a major event at that time.

It just, sort of one of these freak things, some unlucky people or something.

And I remember I rang Reuters and said, "Do I just go on working?" And they said, "Yes, you know, this is, you know-

Victor Hugo Peña, you were in, uh, Vuelta a España in 2001, 11th of September.

Mm-hmm.

And then if Gijon is healthy, he would start.

But if not Caicedo, we got Frey on the right back.

We have Mikael and Casemiro in the center backs.

The people in the countryside and the small towns, um, were, and the wealthier people, of course, were gonna be more conservative, and there was a huge amount, like the, the big push for anarchists and socialists in Basque Country were from people who emigrated from other provinces into the cities to work in the cities to work in industry.

Uh, 'cause people say, you know, uh, Spain never industrialized, and it's like, no, they were-- they, they just industrialized in pockets like Barcelona and, and coastal Catalonia had a fair bit of industry, um, and up in the Basque Country there was a great deal, and then Asturias there was a lot because of the mines up there and the, and the ironworks in Oviedo and Gijón.

Um, yeah, it's, it's one of these things where you see the, you see the patterns that show up elsewhere, um, and it's, it's just so tough because it's kind of, they had to go through it themselves, um, just like everyone else, and sometimes you just end up in a situation where the sit- it just explodes because of the...

It was, uh, just unreconcilable at a certain point.