City of Culture Tournament

**paudie** · 26/10/2004, 12:44 PM

Saw the programme for next year and there was a two page spread about a four team tournament to be run by Cork City involving City and clubs from previous and future Cities of Culture.

Don't know which cities have been Cities of Culture before but I do know that Liverpool is in 2008.

Possibly Liverpool or Everton at the Cross (or maybe Tranmere)?

**boc123** · 26/10/2004, 12:49 PM

Here's the List:

OVERVIEW OF THE EUROPEAN CITIES AND CAPITALS OF CULTURE

1985: Athens
1986: Florence
1987: Amsterdam
1988: Berlin
1989: Paris
1990: Glasgow
1991: Dublin
1992: Madrid
1993: Antwerp
1994: Lisbon
1995: Luxembourg
1996: Copenhagen
1997: Thessaloniki
1998: Stockholm
1999: Weimar
2000: Avignon, Bergen, Bologna, Brussels, Helsinki, Cracow, Reykjavik, Prague, Santiago de Compostela.
2001: Porto + Rotterdam
2002: Bruges + Salamanca
2003: Graz
2004: Genova + Lille
2005: Cork
2006: Patras
2007: Luxembourg + Sibiu
2008: Liverpool + Stavanger

It could be either a very good tournament with some class teams or they could pick teams from Dublin, Sibiu and Santiago de Compostela

**paudie** · 26/10/2004, 12:52 PM

That gives us a pretty big list of clubs to choose from.

**patsh** · 26/10/2004, 1:08 PM

So we could have
v Dublin City (Dublin 1991)
v FC Union Berlin (Berlin 1988)
v Knattspyrnufelag Reykjavikur, Iceland (Reykjavik 2000)

Nice little line up there!...

**paudie** · 26/10/2004, 1:33 PM

We'd have a good chance of winning that tournament anyway!

**Pablo** · 26/10/2004, 2:29 PM

i've heard sturm graz and tranmere mentioned by several people

**Risteard** · 09/03/2005, 12:41 PM

Seems to be letting things very late.

**BOF** · 09/03/2005, 4:53 PM

Originally Posted by Risteard

Seems to be letting things very late.

Course it is not going to happen. It was just more of the bull**** surrounding the non event that is the capital of culture.

CapitalofCultureMyARse

b (CCMA)

**colblimp** · 09/03/2005, 10:26 PM

There was talk of Liverpool and Ajax coming to the Cross for that particular competition but I cant see it myself.

How do all the teams from 2000 sound to you?! Everyone's a winner!!

**crc** · 10/03/2005, 5:07 PM

nah the teams will definately be:

Porto,
Ajax, and
Sparta Prague

realistically though, it wouldn't be too hard to get other clubs to sign up for a competition in their pre-season (August). The impact on City's fixtures may be more problematic.