Remarkable. I was going to post almost the same thing this evening! I saw the Magdeburg stat on Instagram earlier and quite incredible it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Swiss Peter
Amazing to see Schalke continuing to struggle.
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Remarkable. I was going to post almost the same thing this evening! I saw the Magdeburg stat on Instagram earlier and quite incredible it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Swiss Peter
Amazing to see Schalke continuing to struggle.
I read that Magdeburg thing on the net somewhere and didn't actually believe it until I looked it up!Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
Same. And I excitedly told several people in work about it so the bundesliga fan club is growing. One guy even sparked up a chat about Dynamo Dresden in the 3.Liga shortly after.Quote:
Originally Posted by Swiss Peter
Interesting to see Dortmund struggling this season too.
Mid Feb and Magdeburg finally win at home! What a terrible season they must be having. I went to Magdeburg once; they have a fine example of the architecture of Hundertwasser.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%..._von_Magdeburg
I think they were also the team who couldn't score one season so their fans stood behind the goal with big arrows pointing at the goal. Feel free to add your own knowledge of Magdeburg! It's what Friday nights are for.
Pretty sure they won a European tournament in the 70s, definitely reached a Final.
Beat AC Milan in Cup Winners Cup in 74.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Heard it said on the commentary during the game.
They also played and beat Swansea in the 80s in the same competition.
Another fantastic season in the German second tier!
Only eight points separating top and 8th! Chance, albeit unlikely, of Schalke and Hertha Berlin going down.
I'm on an extended stay in Germany, and trying to get to as much football as possible. Sadly, that's included Hertha's last two home games, both of which they lost in front of crowds of 50k plus. They do feel like a club in freefall, but I can't see them going down. You'd have thought after getting shot of Kanga that their luck had changed!.Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
Had a ticket for Altona 93 (fifth tier) last night, but it was cancelled due to the weather. Anyone been?
I'm mainly based in Hamburg and the feeling around here is that HSV's luck might have changed, and they might finally do it this year. Let's see. (Glatzel has been out injured for a while). They'd have been pleased about Köln's defeat last night.
The Hundertwasser/Magdeburg thing is interesting. A lot of these east German cities are surprisingly interesting to visit - even if making Chemnitz City of Culture seemed a bit implausible. I was in Leipzig last weekend for the St. Pauli game and had the chance to have a good look around. It's a great city - history, nice buildings, lots of canals and green space, and great pubs/breweries.
Anyway St. Pauli v Freiburg today - after trying to find somewhere that might be showing our match earlier!
Decent article here - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football...s/c1km1zpx88jo
Time for another look at the lunacy elsewhere rather than at home. With two games to go it looks like Hamburg could finally clamber their way back up, not because they'll win those games but nobody else seems too bothered about winning themselves. Magdeburg in 4th lost 5-0 at home to relegation threatened Munster and Cologne drew this evening at home to relegation promising Regensburg (who are now down). No-one else seems on particularly winning form apart from Braunschweig in 15th.
I went to Germany last month, stayed in Dusseldorf with the aim of seeing Fortuna, but didn't realise that weekend was part of their policy of giving away all the tickets for free for a few of the games in the season. There were 85,000 applications so had to seek out the Regionaliga West instead. Bah.