I've just noticed...

[coupwotcoup]

...that Liverpool have signed a Paraguayan called..Ronald Huth. I bet his family tree makes for interesting reading...

[MCP]

hes a praguayan with an italian passport

[Hookey]

Are you suggesting his great grandad was fleeing Nazi war criminal?

[coupwotcoup]

...lots of Italians called Huth..not..

[coupwotcoup]

Well, I did kinda put two and two together...

[Hookey]

Great minds and all that.....

[coupwotcoup]

Fritz, Hans and Uwe are very popular boys names in Ascuncion I have heard!

So why did it take them three days to announce? Sniff..ah essence of dodgy agent....

[MCP]

i read about the deal on the day after the deadline

[MCP]

and proberly bacause it wasent a big deal signing a 17 year old to play in our reserves

[coach et 64]

Originally Posted By: Hookey

Are you suggesting his great grandad was fleeing Nazi war criminal?

his mum was italian and she married a german officer that escaped,like thousands of nazis,to south america(Chile,paraguay and argentina)thanks to the local dictators.The same as a lot of welsh,scottish,irish and english convicts did in the centuries before(houseman,cooper etc)

[luckypinkpants]

That's Australia not Argentina, sciocco!

[coach et 64]

not only australia but argentina and uruguay.A lot of people have surnames of british origin in those two countries.