Dynamo Dresden.

[Bob]

They play in the 3rd German division and have an average home attendance of 27,000! I think Sheffield Utd may come close? Amazing support.

 

[Woland]

They shut all the shops at midday in Dresden on a Saturday so there's fuck all else to do.

 

[Bob]

They shut all the shops at midday in Dresden on a Saturday so there's fuck all else to do.

They play most of their games on Sunday. 🙂

 

[Woland]

They shut the entire town on Sunday.

It is one thing that did my head about Germany. It's a frickin insult... It does explain all those shit haircuts though - working people can't ever get to an open barbers.

 

[gkmacca]

Ah, Dynamo Dresden, the 1970s, hmm? Bill Shankly, oh yes, Bob Paisley, ahh, Keegan and Toshack, telepathic, hmmm? David Coleman, 'One-Nil!' yes, muddy pitch, oh, foggy evenings, brrr! Yes, jumpers for goalposts, ahh...

 

[redhorizon2]

They play in the 3rd German division and have an average home attendance of 27,000! I think Sheffield Utd may come close? Amazing support.

meh! How much do they charge at the gates?

 

[cloggypop]

We bombed their chippy.

 

[Woland]

There was a thing about Marine in the guardian for 'non-league' day last weekend. I think the non-league clubs let season ticket holders of big clubs in for nothing on international weekend to see if they get the bug.

Anyways, there were a load of comments from Germans, basically saying that although English people were saying it was cheap to go to non-league footy at 15 quid an adult and a fiver for a kid, this is what they pay in their second tier, so it's still stupid high by their standards.

 

[Silver Sean]

Ah, Dynamo Dresden, the 1970s, hmm? Bill Shankly, oh yes, Bob Paisley, ahh, Keegan and Toshack, telepathic, hmmm? David Coleman, 'One-Nil!' yes, muddy pitch, oh, foggy evenings, brrr! Yes, jumpers for goalposts, ahh...

Lovely stuff.

 

[Judge Jules]

They shut the entire town on Sunday.

It is one thing that did my head about Germany. It's a frickin insult... It does explain all those shit haircuts though - working people can't ever get to an open barbers.

When TF did that start? I wish they'd done it when I worked in a bookshop in Bonn for a year in the 1970s.

 

[Athens]

When TF did that start? I wish they'd done it when I worked in a bookshop in Bonn for a year in the 1970s.

Did you ever have people asking you for copies of Mein Kampf (or however it's Spelled)?

 

[Judge Jules]

No, but the HR chappie (as he'd now be known) was this skeletal-looking, generally somewhat scary bloke who would occasionally refer back almost wistfully (or so it seemed to me) to the Hitler era. I liked Germany and the Germans - still do if it comes to that - but he was one person I was glad to get away from when I came home.

 

[Athens]

No, but the HR chappie (as he'd now be known) was this skeletal-looking, generally somewhat scary bloke who would occasionally refer back almost wistfully (or so it seemed to me) to the Hitler era. I liked Germany and the Germans - still do if it comes to that - but he was one person I was glad to get away from when I came home.

So you had a potential ex-Nazi as the HR man? Interesting!

 

[Modo]

Aren't they the only top former DDR team left?

 

[Judge Jules]

Ruairi: certainly was. This was less than 30 years after the war ended and a neo-Nazi party, the NPD, was level-pegging with the German equivalent of the Liberals in third place in the polls behind the German equivalents of the Conservatives and Labour. There was never any chance of the NPD getting into power then, but it made you wonder all the same.

 

[Bob]

Aren't they the only top former DDR team left?

No, Chemnitz, Magdeberg, Rostock Leipzig and a few others.