Just read this. Gonna watch and see if I can stomach football in empty stadiums.
https://1.ftb.al/GLRUID24r6
I’ve just picked Mainz unless there’s any reason I shouldn’t?
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Just read this. Gonna watch and see if I can stomach football in empty stadiums.
https://1.ftb.al/GLRUID24r6
I’ve just picked Mainz unless there’s any reason I shouldn’t?
I'll be watching it.
Yes, looking forward to it. I like Hertha anyway so will back them, although - as the article says, they do have a West Ham-like feel of perpetual under-achievement and near-disaster about them. It's the first top level Berlin derby at the Olympia Stadion a week on Sunday - so will watch that (I had tickets for the original match). Can't imagine what it will be like without fans though.
Leipzig obviously the team for those City fans who were comfortable with our very own rebrand.
I hope to see Gladbach's game. First saw them in May 1977 when visiting my brother, who was posted to Germany.
They played against Bayern Munich and the line-ups included many notable players:
For Gladbach: Bertie Vogts, Rainer Bonhof, Uli Stielike and the Dane, Allan Simonsen.
For Bayern: Sepp Maier, Franz Beckenbauer, Uli Hoeness, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and 'Der Bomber', Gerd Müller.
Saw Gladbach a few times when I subsequently lived over there subsequently and saw them last January and also last season.
Your memory's playing tricks on you. Hertha weren't thrown out of the Bundesliga for cheating. They got relegated (on goal difference) in 1980.
I've been to Berlin several times in recent years and have managed to watch Hertha play on every occasion. I also managed to see Tennis Borussia Berlin once. They were a Bundesliga side back in the Seventies but now play in the fifth tier.
not bothered with it ever before....why start now.
I think I'll follow Schalke, they've got a very pro Wales Twitter account. Probably won't bother actually watching any games though
Absolute bollocks, they buy young players relatively cheap and then develop them, and if they sell its for a tidy profit. This is the model Cardiff City should follow, and you can seen their transfer dealings below as they moved up the league's to establish themselves as one of the best teams in Europe.Are you a fan of a club with an almost bottomless pit of money that is despised by every other supporter in the country?
Manchester City fans, meet RB Leipzig.
For example they bought Upamecano for £9m and Werner 12.6m and they will get 4 or 5 times that amount if they sell them, and they doubled their money on Keita.
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/rase...s/verein/23826
Yeah, two! Rabbi Matondo at Schalke and Ampadu at Leipzig. Also I think describing Leipzig as "having a bottomless pit of money" is a bit misleading. It's like saying we've got a bottomless pit because Tan's worth billions. They are hated as an entity though, but as a team they're great
Matondo to Man United?
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/...ancho-18249963
Matondo has improved quite a bit over in Germany, and his speed will always be a danger to any opposition team. Agree about Rodon, he looks certain to move to the Premier League, and Wales are set for the next 10 years with him, Ampadu and Mepham (and others) in the central defensive roles.
Used to watch it on ITV 4. I assume BT have it all wrapped up now? Have been to Hoffenheim, although they're not the most popular bunch (or at least the owner isn't) and also a few lower league games. Will try and watch if I can find it somewhere.
No interest whatsoever .
I'll be watching. My problem is that I just don't care about the Bundesliga. I suppose I would want Bayern to lose but that's about I can muster. At least watching UK games there's always one team that I want to win or lose. Having seen play City in all 4 divisions there's not many teams that I don't have some sort of feeling about. So for example, if Hoffenheim play Leverkusen, how am I supposed to feel? I suppose it will depend on what kit they are wearing. In fact, I know it will come down to exactly that. What German teams play in blue? And do they have white shorts?
I remember when Ewald Lienen, who moved from Gladbach to Armenia Bielefeld and back again, suffered this injury when playing for the latter 1981:
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