German footie on ITV

PragueAddick

Yesterday I found myself sharing the autobahn from Stuttgart to Nurnberg with thousands of VFB fans. Too late I realised I could have taken the game in if I had planned it in advance, but afterwards I discovered that it was a 43,000 sell-out (and Nurnberg are a nothing club, with a recent history of QPR levels). However I vaguely remembered reading that ITV are showing regular highlights, and sure enough there it is, Mondays, 22.00, ITV4. Going to be more fun than the FLS I reckon.

Fiiiiiish

The commentators are terrible but I enjoy the programme. The fans are excellent at every game. I can't reccomend going to a German city for a weekend to watch a game enough.

Absurdistan

I've watched a few games via stream over past couple seasons. I really enjoyed it as the games appear competitive, quality action and great stadiums, pitches and supporters. You can see why they are so good at International level as most of the players appear to be German, they give youth more than a chance and appear to play without fear. I should watch more.

Rothko

best league to be a supporter in Europe, no debate about it

Big William

I don't catch that many german games on ESPN but they always seem to have a lot of atmosphere and the footballs usually pretty good as well.

ValleyFred

It helps that a season ticket at Borusia Dortmund can be bought for just £180, have to go down to League 1 in the UK for that, and it's just to imposed limits from the leagues, meaning you nearly always get sell-outs. Wish we had that in the UK rather than spiralling prices, not so bad at CAFC, but at QPR it was like £50 for an adult ticket at some games!

se9addick

Any game involving Dortmund is normally good, they've got some great players and a fantastic atmosphere.

CrayAddick

Did the TSV Munich derby fans are nuts

Friend Or Defoe

I envy the German fans. They had 80k for a third division Berlin derby last season.

adrian

PragueAddick said:

Yesterday I found myself sharing the autobahn from Stuttgart to Nurnberg with thousands of VFB fans. Too late I realised I could have taken the game in if I had planned it in advance, but afterwards I discovered that it was a 43,000 sell-out (and Nurnberg are a nothing club, with a recent history of QPR levels). However I vaguely remembered reading that ITV are showing regular highlights, and sure enough there it is, Mondays, 22.00, ITV4. Going to be more fun than the FLS I reckon.

Maybe a bit harsh , 'a nothing club' but you did well mentioning their 'recent' history. When they won their ninth title in 1968, they were by far the team with the most trophies. They're still second best, far behind Bayern Munchen but still in front of Borussia Dortmund. A fallen giant.

PragueAddick

adrian said:

PragueAddick said:

Yesterday I found myself sharing the autobahn from Stuttgart to Nurnberg with thousands of VFB fans. Too late I realised I could have taken the game in if I had planned it in advance, but afterwards I discovered that it was a 43,000 sell-out (and Nurnberg are a nothing club, with a recent history of QPR levels). However I vaguely remembered reading that ITV are showing regular highlights, and sure enough there it is, Mondays, 22.00, ITV4. Going to be more fun than the FLS I reckon.

Maybe a bit harsh , 'a nothing club' but you did well mentioning their 'recent' history. When they won their ninth title in 1968, they were by far the team with the most trophies. They're still second best, far behind Bayern Munchen but still in front of Borussia Dortmund. A fallen giant.

Wow, that'll teach me to look things up before posting such comments. I had just never registered them in European competitions. It's a pity they never win anything now, if they could draw my Viktoria Plzen in the Europa league, that would be a real derby, it's only 90 minutes by motorway between the two cities, zipping across a Schengen border that was an Iron Curtain...

Absurdistan

They probably serve a nice pint and Bratwurst to.

Addickted4life

PragueAddick said:

adrian said:

PragueAddick said:

Yesterday I found myself sharing the autobahn from Stuttgart to Nurnberg with thousands of VFB fans. Too late I realised I could have taken the game in if I had planned it in advance, but afterwards I discovered that it was a 43,000 sell-out (and Nurnberg are a nothing club, with a recent history of QPR levels). However I vaguely remembered reading that ITV are showing regular highlights, and sure enough there it is, Mondays, 22.00, ITV4. Going to be more fun than the FLS I reckon.

Maybe a bit harsh , 'a nothing club' but you did well mentioning their 'recent' history. When they won their ninth title in 1968, they were by far the team with the most trophies. They're still second best, far behind Bayern Munchen but still in front of Borussia Dortmund. A fallen giant.

Wow, that'll teach me to look things up before posting such comments. I had just never registered them in European competitions. It's a pity they never win anything now, if they could draw my Viktoria Plzen in the Europa league, that would be a real derby, it's only 90 minutes by motorway between the two cities, zipping across a Schengen border that was an Iron Curtain...

Wow @adrain was right, they've won loads of stuff, I think they may have earned the right to be called massive:

National:
German Football Championship, Oberliga Süd & Fußball-Bundesliga
Champions: 1920, 1921, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1936, 1947–48, 1960–61, 1967–68
Runners-up: 1922, 1934, 1937, 1961–62

DFB-Pokal
Winners: 1935, 1939, 1962, 2007
Runners-up: 1940, 1982

Süddeutsche Meisterschaft
Champions: 1916, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1924, 1927, 1929

Southern German Cup
Winners: 1919, 1924

Bavarian champions: 1907

Ostkreis-Liga
Champions: 1916, 1918

Kreisliga Nordbayern
Champions: 1920, 1921

Bezirksliga Bayern
Champions: 1924, 1925, 1927

Bezirksliga Nordbayern
Champions: 1929, 1932, 1933

Gauliga Bayern
Champions: 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940

Gauliga Bayern (northern division)
Champions: 1943, 1944

Oberliga Süd
Champions: 1947, 1948, 1951, 1957, 1961, 1962

Regionalliga Süd (II)
Champions: 1971

2nd Bundesliga Süd (II)
Champions: 1980

2nd Bundesliga (II)
Champions: 1985, 2001, 2004

International:
Intertoto Cup
Winners: 1968

Cheers Adrian I never knew that.

Mortimerician

Thanks, will put this on series link. I'd like to go to St Pauli, purely because I've heard they have a "sausage train", but I don't actually know what this is.

PragueAddick

That is interesting. My buddy is an Eintracht Frankfurt fan, that's sort of derby territory too, but he never seems to talk about Nurnberg. I'll ask him to comment.

I believe a nice pint at a German game is more or less a given

BlackForestReds

Mortimerician said:

Thanks, will put this on series link. I'd like to go to St Pauli, purely because I've heard they have a "sausage train", but I don't actually know what this is.

It's a train, well a mini one, that delivers sausages to the fans.

PragueAddick

Mortimerician said:

Thanks, will put this on series link. I'd like to go to St Pauli, purely because I've heard they have a "sausage train", but I don't actually know what this is.

Somebody posted a foto of it on another thread, but can't remember which one it was

Absurdistan

Mortimerician said:

Thanks, will put this on series link. I'd like to go to St Pauli, purely because I've heard they have a "sausage train", but I don't actually know what this is.

Think that is more likely to take place at Selhurst Park.

Addickted4life

I believe this is the fabled Sausage train:

Mortimerician

BlackForestReds said:

Mortimerician said:

Thanks, will put this on series link. I'd like to go to St Pauli, purely because I've heard they have a "sausage train", but I don't actually know what this is.

It's a train, well a mini one, that delivers sausages to the fans.

That was what I imagined, but didn't dare to believe it could be real.

Ta Prague, just found the picture, that's remarkable. They also have the coolest supporter merch on the market, I'm a convert.

PragueAddick

Great foto.

Although in Prague we prefer our model trains to bring the beers...

SheffieldRed

Intertoto Cup
Winners: 1968

Can this be correct? I know it's on wikipedia but the intertoto was not around then surely. Is it another competition?

For those that are interested, Nurnberg have a Bauhaus style main stand.

PragueAddick

I too took a double-take on the InterToto...

PragueAddick

Mortimerician said:

BlackForestReds said:

Mortimerician said:

Thanks, will put this on series link. I'd like to go to St Pauli, purely because I've heard they have a "sausage train", but I don't actually know what this is.

It's a train, well a mini one, that delivers sausages to the fans.

That was what I imagined, but didn't dare to believe it could be real.

Ta Prague, just found the picture, that's remarkable. They also have the coolest supporter merch on the market, I'm a convert.

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Addickted4life

It was first called the International Football Cup and was founded in 1961 but this changed to the Intertoto Cup in 1995 when the competition was taken over by uefa.

Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Intertoto_Cup

Noss

Off for a German footy weekend in December. Saturday: Bayer Leverkusen v Hamburg in Bundesliga1, Sunday: Bochum v Paderborn in Bundesliga2. Leverkusen is a suburb of Cologne which is a great city and should be excellent just before Christmas.

Means missing the Christmas Market in Bolton unfortunately...