Goring Gull
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Bundesliga Relegation/promotion playoff. Fortuna 2-1 up after first leg win in Berlin. Who do you want to see in the Bundesliga 1 next season?
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Hertha Berlin or Fortuna Dussledorf?
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Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews
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Dusseldorf, but only because my mate (posts on here as The Modfather) got married yesterday and we had the stag do in Dusseldorf and it's fuckin great
Goring Gull
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It's a cracking city
I spent three months out there living at a mates when i took voluntary redundancy from NTL 10 years ago. Great times worked three nights a week in the green irish bar in the Alstadt.Looking back wish i'd made an effort with the language and stayed out there.
Mutts Nuts
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Hertha,went to a few of there games in the 90`s when i was living in Berlin they have very pasionate fans
Ha Ho He, Hertha BSC!
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Rebels & Albion
My housemate is a Chelsea/Hertha fan (lives in Berlin), but two of my mates from following Worthing are Fortuna STHs, so the phrase split loyalties comes to mind here!
saafend_seagull
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good friend from when i lived out in luxembourg goes to every game home and away for them, he came down to southend v brighton a couple of years ago too.
was at the game when they got relegated to bundesliga 2 away to leverkusen a couple of years ago.
so has to be hertha, also play in our colours
this isnt for a couple of days but first leg you could watch for free on bet365.
was at the game when they got relegated to bundesliga 2 away to leverkusen a couple of years ago.
so has to be hertha, also play in our colours
this isnt for a couple of days but first leg you could watch for free on bet365.
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Did you ever go to Mettmann ? I lived there for about 5 years in the 7o's
Here's a picture of my old flat its the building on the left with the car parked in front of it.
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m20gull
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Having been to the last home league game of their season and for the Dusseldorf fan who stands next to me in the North Stand. Fortuna!
A recent visit to the commercial over-sponsored-branded-world of Hertha BSC at the Olympic Stadium (against SC Freiburg), makes me want them to go down, despite the lovely blue and white stripes. I don't normally like teams in red, but... Niemals vergessen... Eisern Union! (that's for the derby again next year)
Mind you, I liked the huge 1 litre plastic beer glasses with "Kick off" written round a line at the top, "Half time" in the middle, and "Substitution" at the bottom! Beer during the game, I love German footy...
Mind you, I liked the huge 1 litre plastic beer glasses with "Kick off" written round a line at the top, "Half time" in the middle, and "Substitution" at the bottom! Beer during the game, I love German footy...
TheBlueAndWhiteStrips
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I want Fortuna to win of course
Lord Bracknell
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Rather bizarrely ... on the way back from Wembley yesterday, I saw an Asian guy at East Croydon station wearing a Hertha Berlin shirt.
I prefer the over-sponsorship to the white-power fascism of Union though.
Union have got a few nutcases, but they are not as bad as many of the other Eastern teams (and so have the Albion, particularly at Selhurst recently). Union were always the underdogs even in East Berlin - compared to the genuinely scary BFC Dynamo. I've never noticed a particular white power thing there, unless you can prove me wrong? I agree about some of the other teams from the East, but not them...
Austrian Gull
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Fortuna haven't been in the Bundesliga for around 15 years so they get my vote. Both are great cities for the visitor, though.
This may well be the last match ever for Otto Rehhagel - a true legend of German football.
This may well be the last match ever for Otto Rehhagel - a true legend of German football.
I first saw Union 4 years ago before the ground was rebuilt and went on the main home terrace behind one of the goals. Whilst a definite small minority there were people very openly wearing hoodies, t-shirts and patches sewn onto jackets with very visible white power emblems. They also had a strange arm gesture which was a basically a nazi salute with the arm slightly bent at the elbow. This might have been something totally innocent but I could not get it out of my head that it was some way of circumventing the illegal nazi salute. All of this made me feel uncomfortable. Whilst this was a minority. and the salute thing may well have been innocent; I have never seen this at Hertha or any other ground I have visited for that matter. I have no doubt it goes on at other clubs, especially former East German clubs, but this does not make it acceptable to me. I have been since but always prefer to sit in the main stand now.
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I watched the first leg, very good it was. When is the next leg, will be a cracking atmosphere
I've been several times to Union (including before redevelopment) on visits to Berlin, and have never seen anything like that there. I've seen it occasionally elsewhere, and despite several visits to Dynamo Dresden (a Dresdner friend supports them) feel much more wary of them than Union. I'm not a Union fan in particular, following St. Pauli since the early 1990s, so wouldn't be happy to see that. Noted for the next time. I just like the terraces on three sides, standing with a beer...