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My main interest (apart from creating this web site) is AMERICAN FOOTBALL
"It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again." ---VINCE LOMBARDI, LEGENDARY COACH OF THE GREEN BAY PACKERS
I am a supporter of the Scottish Claymores
who play in the NFL EUROPE LEAGUE(formerly known as The World League of American Football) and who won the World Bowl in 1996 beating the Frankfurt Galaxy and narrowly lost in the 2000 final to Rhein Fire.
You can read more about them by following this link The season starts in April and runs until June culminating in the World Bowl, during the off-season I watch the regular season of the American games,
my favourite team are the Seattle Seahawks, who unfortunately are not on Sky Sports very often, some of the players who were in the team like QB Dave Krieg, WR Steve Largent and Brian Bosworth are players who initally sparked my interest in the team.

World Bowl Winners
(Winners in bold)
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Year
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Team
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Score
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Team
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Date
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Venue
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Logo
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1991
World Bowl I
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London Monarchs
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21 - 00
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Barcelona Dragons
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JUNE 9th
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Wembley,London, England
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1992
World Bowl II
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Sacremento Surge
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21 - 17
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Orlando Thunder
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JUNE 6th
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Olympic Stadium, Montreal, Canada
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1993
LEAGUE SUSPENDED
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1994
LEAGUE SUSPENDED
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1995 World Bowl III
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Frankfurt Galaxy
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26 - 22
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Amsterdam Admirals
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JUNE 17th
| Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam, Holland
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1996 World Bowl IV
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Scottish Claymores
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32 - 27
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Frankfurt Galaxy
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JUNE 9th
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Murrayfield, Edinburgh, Scotland
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1997 World Bowl V
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Barcelona Dragons
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38 - 24
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Rhein Fire
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JUNE 22nd
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Estadi Olimpic de Montjuic, Barcelona, Spain
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1998 World Bowl VI
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Rhein Fire
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34 - 10
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Frankfurt Galaxy
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JUNE 14th
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Waldstadion, Frankfurt, Germany
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1999 World Bowl VII
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Frankfurt Galaxy
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38 - 24
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Barcelona Dragons
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JUNE 27th
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Rheinstadion, Dusseldorf, Germany
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2000 World Bowl VIII
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Rhein Fire
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13 - 10
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Scottish Claymores
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JUNE 25th
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Waldstadion, Frankfurt, Germany
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2001 World Bowl IX
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Berlin Thunder
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24 - 17
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Barcelona Dragons
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JUNE 30th
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Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam, Holland
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2002 World Bowl X
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Berlin Thunder
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26 - 20
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Rhein Fire
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JUNE 21st
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Rheinstadion, Dusseldorf, Germany
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2003 World Bowl XI
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Frankfurt Galaxy
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35 - 16
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Rhein Fire
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JUNE 14th
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Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland
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Here are the helmets of the other teams in the League Rhein Fire, Berlin
Thunder Amsterdam Admirals, Barcelona Dragons The Claymores play their home games at Hampden in Glasgow (see picture gallery page) under head coach Gene Dahlquist
who took over from Jim Criner, who led us to victory in 1996, Gene took us to the World Bowl once more in 2000 at World Bowl VIII at the Waldstadion, in Frankfurt, Germany but unfortunately the Claymores lost out to Rhein Fire.
2003 Claymores management announce sacking of head coach Gene Dahlquist and defensive coach Ray Woodard. Barcelona Dragons also ceased as a franchise due to poor attendance figures.
Jack Bicknell becomes new Claymores head coach and Cologne (Germany) gains a new team, the Cologne Centurions. Peter Vaas becomes their new coach moving from Berlin
FILMS
M*A*S*H, starring Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould and Tom Skerritt. for more see below
Now available on DVD
BULLITT, Steve McQueen plays Lieutenant Frank Bullitt a San Francisco cop who is sent to baby sit a Mafia informer by an ambitious Senatorial Candidate Robert Vaughn, which features one of the best (if not the best) car chases on film. If you want to know a little more
about the car click here MUSTANG Ford have brought out a version of the Mustang to commemorate the film. You can see pictures of the car and read more about it at stangnet.com but meanwhile here is a preview and for up to date news visit STANGNET the car is in production and the first one has been presented to Steve McQueen's son Chad.
THE ITALIAN JOB starring Michael Caine who organises a daring gold robbery in Turin, Italy and the getaway through the streets of Turin (which have been blocked by a massive traffic jam due to the gang putting the traffic control system out of action) and round the old FIAT test track on a rooftop but the undoubted stars are the red, white and blue (patriotic coloured) Mini Coopers.
Now available on DVD.
The latest version of the famous mini is now on sale after a complete re-vamp by BMW
in 2 versions, a basic and a Cooper.
BACK TO THE FUTURE 
which stars Michael J. Fox as the time travelling Marty McFly who journeys back in time to 1955 in a DeLorean car modified by his friend Dr. Emmett Brown ( Christopher Lloyd ) where he immediately alters events and has to rectify the changes before he can get back to his own time. The film and it's 2 follow ups focus on the possibilities which could occur if just slight changes take place in a sequence of events, the kind of thing that everyone has imagined, what if I had done this? or went down this road?.
All 3 films are now available as a DVD box set 
TV PROGRAMMES
Here a some of my favourite programmes
M*A*S*H DAD'S ARMY AUF WIEDERSEHEN PET STARGATE
FOOTBALL
Although my main interest is American Football I still enjoy football (or as the Americans call it soccer), I always enjoy international matches especially the World Cup
My favourite cars of the moment are the Chrysler PT Cruiser and the Jensen V8  

Last Updated: FEBRUARY 2004
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