Lord, soccer fans can be cruel to their own clubs. This video showing such behavior was sent by Matthew Cobb, who noted:
In 2012, FC Magdeburg had gone 5 games without scoring, so the fans decided to help their strikers.
How embarrassing this must have been for the team. And, even with this help, Magdeburg still lost!
Oooh harsh. That there are so few fans in the stands probably worries them more, but that is very funny.
Indeed…there may well be more on the field (including coaches and players on standby and security and other support personnel) than there are in the stands….
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Very funny. Back in the day I used to find European football very exotic and mysterious (before all media everywhere was on tap). I remember that for a while FC Magdeburg, from an otherwise obscure town in East Germany, received powerful state sponsorship. Consequently they were by far the best team in East Germany and were close to breaking into the real elite teams of Europe. Mighty. Fallen. etc. It’s interesting that even today, 24 years after integration, East German cities still can’t get teams into the Bundesliga (just one exception Hertha Berlin from the largest city in the country).
your analysis is right on the mark. Only exception: Hertha BSC Berlin has always been a “Western Club” based in former West Berlin and a longstanding member of the Bundesliga.
Good point, I’d forgotten that Hertha is a former West German team too! Any chance of a second Berlin team, or a Leipzig or Dresden team in the Bundesliga? Maybe going to 20 teams like England, Spain and Italy might help.
Do we really need a Sportsgemeinschaft Dynamo Dresden, eingetragener Verein in the Bundesliga? A commentator’s nightmare! Although I imagine the name will get shortened.
Lokomotive Leipzig fell as far as the *seventh* tier of German football.
Ah, but they did score.
I know that, as a man, I’m not supposed to say this but, I find footie to be extremely boring. Still, this did make me laugh.
And vho zaid zat ze Germanz hav no sens of humor?
Probably Will Hay!
If you can read German, Google for “Perscheid comics”. Perscheid is roughly the German equivalent of Larsen, with associated weird cartoons. Here’s one:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.embscher.de%2Fdownload%2Fperscheid%2FBilder%2Fcartoon_h012_jpg.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.embscher.de%2Fdownload%2Fperscheid%2FSeiten%2Fcartoon_h012_jpg.htm&h=363&w=296&tbnid=eGSQfyVLcB-8TM%3A&zoom=1&docid=4i5NSFEvtvNJuM&ei=D9dQVNHpOtavyASlmYKABQ&tbm=isch&client=firefox-a&ved=0CEgQMyggMCA&iact=rc&uact=3&dur=598&page=2&start=18&ndsp=24
In Germany, certain parking spots are reserved for women, as they (I guess, still?) primarily do the shopping. The big sign in the back says, “Frauenparkplaetze,” meaning “Women’s Parking.” The matron is saying to the man, “Well, I’m going to let that qualify.” It’s more idiomatic in German, of course.
I thought you Coyne-d the term ‘Soccerball on WEIT, but I note that you have used both football & soccer as a nice compromise!
The Raiders need something like that. 0-7…Gaaah.
That’s really funny.
Humour from the stands is often R-rated and pretty brutal, but can be extremely funny.