Helsingborg

He flunked out of MIT.

actually twice but he got back in both times and he finally finished on that third and last shot at it so today i thought we'd go back in time to some previous episodes and interact with them just a little bit and what really sparked this episode idea was coming across a funny site about a real place called the museum of failure which started as a single exhibit in Helsingborg, Sweden in 2017, and it's curated by Samuel

West.

And where are these failures? Companies sweep them under the carpet and pretend they don't exist.

Osman Addo could've represented Ghana, um, but he decided to play for Somalia, so they brought him in.

Plays for Helsingborg in Sweden, um, which at the moment is a D2 side but it looks like they're gonna get promoted, so, um, they've had a good season.

So he's, he's in and yeah, we'll just...

We'll have to see if, if they can do something, 'cause that's been their problem.

I'm gonna start off.

Um, a lot of, uh, bloggers and, and podcasters in the, the world of Celtic have been talking about an incredible effort from Celtic supporter Ella, who is walking 1,000 miles from Helsingborg, famously the birthplace and home of Henrik Larsson, all the way to Celtic Park.

It's an incredible achievement.

She's already res- she's already raised the 10,000 pound target.

But yeah, what days they were absolutely incredible.

Mike was in Helsingborg and Milan two fantastic trips would be hard to top but we can dream as a few people have said as well right let's uh one last bit of news Henry let's trail that international pod Marcelino Nunes has been recalled by the Chile national team Palacios is in the Argentina squad we're gonna have to start getting used to this aren't we there's not going to be many many players left at the training ground in the international breaks is there

Yeah, and the international break pods we've done in recent years have very much been focused on who's in the Scotland and Republic of Ireland and Wales squads.

And now we're going to have to be talking about almost every player in that starting lineup playing for Morocco, Argentina, Chile.

Expectations as well

... we, we got beat, um, by a team called Helsingborg-

Yeah

... who, who were like-

And, you know, if you could make the pitch as small as you could, i- uh, d- in, within the ref guidelines, they made their pitch as small as it could within the guidelines and just sat back in there, and we couldn't score against them.

So, for months afterwards, I would go in the boardroom, and I could see Doug, and he'd be, "Oh, Brian, come over here, please." He's got about five or six people around him.

And he'd say, uh, to them, he'd go, "Do you like my tie?" And they'd go, "Yeah." He said, "This tie cost me a million pound." They're going, "What?" "Yes, it's the Helsingborg tie.

Isn't it, Brian? The one that knocked us out of Europe-

If the fellows wanted to set a trap for us, they had only to report promptly to the English.

Suspicious steamer passed, proceeding out on a northerly course, and we should be quite certain, within five hours after passing Helsingborg, to make the acquaintance of an English cruiser.

To add to our disquietude, it was no long time before we overhauled in the narrow channel a Danish schooner which had lain close astern to us at the quays of Lubeck, what time we were still a German steamer.

However, we should need luck to get through in any case, and a risk less or more was nothing to be downhearted about.

They said, yeah, of course, but we have to drive into Lund because of the Montessori school.

And then my Alexander practitioner is in Helsingborg and the kids are in the orchestra in Malmö.

And there's suddenly a realization there's been another view on things.

It's, living the way we live our lives, being connected to things that we don't need to drive so much.

And how wide is it?

At its absolute narrowest point, between the Danish port city of Helsingør and the Swedish city of Helsingborg, the strait is only about two and a half miles wide.

Two and a half miles seems like a negligible distance until you factor in the environmental and military conditions of October 1943.

It was essentially a death trap.