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Town with a population the size of Bolton with crowds of 60k+

 

 

Are there 7 other top flight clubs within a 40 mile rsdius? I doubt it.

Apart from Borussia Dortmund you mean?

Are there 7 other top flight clubs within a 40 mile radius? I doubt it.

 

 

Or possibly as few as 4 in a couple of weeks

On a recent trip to Berlin I visited the Olympic Stadium a day before the local Derby between Herth and union Berlin. Whilst I was in the Hertha club shop I asked what attendances Hertha got for home games, the assistant told me the weekend derby was a 75000 sell out, not bad for a 2nd division game. Prices were ten euro`s a ticket.

Germany have it spot on.

In Germany, the cost of football is reasonable and you can even stand up to watch the footie.

 

Over here it costs a fortune and you have to sit down for 90 minutes.

 

I wonder why they get bigger crowds over there...

 

I watched a program a while ago about St Pauli. They look like a cracking little club. I think our very own Ivan Klasnic has links to them doesn't he?

Apart from Borussia Dortmund you mean?

 

Dortmund are over 20 miles from Schalke and there aren't any other top flight clubs within 50 miles.

 

German clubs have huge catchment areas compared to clubs in the North West of England for instance.

It's laughable when people compare German cities to English towns like Bolton. Germany has a fucking huge population, is football mad and only has 2 credible levels of football. The cities are spread out, unlike our towns so clubs can bring support in from the surrounding areas, bit like Newcastle for example.

 

 

 

I watched a program a while ago about St Pauli. They look like a cracking little club.

 

There will be a Australian along to get you in a minute.

On a recent trip to Berlin I visited the Olympic Stadium a day before the local Derby between Herth and union Berlin. Whilst I was in the Hertha club shop I asked what attendances Hertha got for home games, the assistant told me the weekend derby was a 75000 sell out, not bad for a 2nd division game. Prices were ten euro`s a ticket.

Germany have it spot on.

 

Herta were pushing for the championship 2 years ago!

There will be a Australian along to get you in a minute.

 

"It was in the mid-1980s that St. Pauli's transition from a traditional club into a "Kult" club began. The club was also able to turn the location of its ground in the dock area part of town, near Hamburg's famous Reeperbahn ? centre of the city's night life and its red-light district ? to its advantage. An alternative fan scene emerged, built around left-leaning politics and the "event" and party atmosphere of the club's matches. Supporters adopted the skull and crossbones as their own unofficial emblem. St. Pauli became the first team in Germany to officially ban right-wing nationalist activities and displays in its stadium in an era when fascist-inspired football hooliganism threatened the game across Europe.[citation needed] In 1981, the team was averaging crowds of only 1,600 spectators: by the late 1990s they were frequently selling out their entire 20,000-capacity ground.[citation needed]

 

In the early 1990s, the media in Germany started to work on the Kult-image of the club, focusing on the punk part of the fan-base in TV broadcasts of the matches. By this time, the media also started to establish nicknames like "Freibeuter der Liga" (buccaneers of the league) as well as das Freudenhaus der Liga ("Brothel of the League" but Freudenhaus also literally means "House of Fun")."

 

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I'm moving to Germany to support St Pauli!!!

 

Regarding this whole argument about Bolton being a town and not a city, it just doesn't wash with me. If all those glory-hunting pricks from our town supported their local club we'd have fantastic support. Same goes for all those pricks who think 'supporting' your team means watching it on a foreign satellite channel in a pub. They moan that they can't afford to go but will easily swill ?30 worth of beer watching it on the big screen.

In Germany, the cost of football is reasonable and you can even stand up to watch the footie.

 

Well, you know who to blame for that.

It's laughable when people compare German cities to English towns like Bolton. Germany has a fucking huge population, is football mad and only has 2 credible levels of football. The cities are spread out, unlike our towns so clubs can bring support in from the surrounding areas, bit like Newcastle for example.

 

Am I not right in thinking tickets prices are dirt cheap over there awell?..

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Well, you know who to blame for that.

 

yep, the Sun newspaper. Everyone knows it was their fault, right?

Schalke looked like rabbits caught in headlights ...... frozen & clueless.

Can't understand a team doing that in a major game.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh, wait a minute ...............

Am I not right in thinking tickets prices are dirt cheap over there awell?..

 

An adult can watch a Bundesliga game at Schalke for as little as 15 Euros.

An adult can watch a Bundesliga game at Schalke for as little as 15 Euros.

 

 

I'm going to Blackburn for a tenner on Saturday.

Schalke looked like rabbits caught in headlights ...... frozen & clueless.

Can't understand a team doing that in a major game.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh, wait a minute ...............

 

haha - said exactly the same thing to a work mate this morning. That was the worst semi-final performance I've seen since... well...

The Chumps league is a joke, United have played Rangers, Bursaspor, marseille and Schalke all who would be in the bottom half of the premier league at best. I just hope and pray that the spaniards thump them at wembley, I know for sure United will try to dog it out at Wembley park the Bus and try to nick it on the break, if they win you will never ever hear the last of it.

Well, you know who to blame for that.

 

South Yorkshire Police?

 

They killed football when they forced all those innocent Scousers to go in through the wrong gate.

What a climax to the season that would be, ManU being humiliated at Wembley.

What a climax to the season that would be, ManU being humiliated at Wembley.

 

Do not tempt fate, they can win a 1 off match against anyone.

Nah, they'll get dicked if they come up against Barca.

 

The worrying thing will be if they end up facing Real Madrid, they're more than capable of beating them.

The Chumps league is a joke, United have played Rangers, Bursaspor, marseille and Schalke all who would be in the bottom half of the premier league at best. I just hope and pray that the spaniards thump them at wembley, I know for sure United will try to dog it out at Wembley park the Bus and try to nick it on the break, if they win you will never ever hear the last of it.

 

To be fair the Champions League is probably a better test of a team than the old European Cup, when teams had to get through just four rounds to reach the final, including a typical first round game against some Scandinavian part-timers.

Going back to last night's game, I'd forgotten just how much I hate Graeme Souness.

An adult can watch a Bundesliga game at Schalke for as little as 15 Euros.

Plus Schalke are from Gelsenkirchen which in a lot of ways is a bit like somewhere like Middlesbrough.

 

Once had a thriving industry where everyone worked but when it all shut down mass unemployment followed.

 

So they also keep ticket prices low to help fans get in to watch the games and are generally a community based club.

 

And a percentage of the money made from ticket prices for teams in the Bundesliega gets invested in public transport so it is also easier for fans to get to the games.