[Football] St Pauli v Hamburg SV (7.30)Ostigard starts, Gyökeres sub.

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Amateurs compared to PAOK fans in Greece

 

[Pinkie Brown]

FT 2-0. Fully deserved and could have been more when HSV were caught on the counter attack a few times. Game finished over ten minutes ago and the team are still celebrating with the fans. The Reeperbahn & St Pauli will be lively tonight! Solid performance from Ostigard. Gyokeres never got off the bench.

 

[BN41Albion]

FT 2-0. Fully deserved and could have been more when HSV were caught on the counter attack a few times. Game finished over ten minutes ago and the team are still celebrating with the fans. The Reeperbahn & St Pauli will be lively tonight! Solid performance from Ostigard. Gyokeres never got off the bench.

On a school night, too.
The Amex would've have been 2/3rds empty on 85 minutes, let alone 10 minutes after the game.

 

[Nottseagull]

They let go a 0-3 lead in their last match (drawn), so maybe were in a false position. Looks like they're on the up now

They each play 12 games fewer than our second tier, so not even ¾ of a Championship season.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I wonder how those fans would react to a bottle top ban?

In an orderly fashion, nicht wahr?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Yeah. They are bonkers.

Football's shit though. Take your pick, do you want to watch a stadium full of pyro ponces, or a decent performance at the highest level?

 

[Superphil]

...

 

[theonlymikey]

Stayed in St Pauli for My wife's birthday back in May. Ended up being in the red light district Reeperbahn, oh well...

Would love to catch a German game. They say it's cheaper to travel to Germany and back and pay the walk up tickets than to watch some premier league games.

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[RexCathedra]

There are some one-time giants fallen among the dwarves of 2.Bundesliga, aren't there?

I mean to the extent that everyone except Dortmund and FC Bayern aren't dwarves.

 

[Swansman]

Football's shit though. Take your pick, do you want to watch a stadium full of pyro ponces, or a decent performance at the highest level?

In Sweden the big teams have insane support (not always been the case) and I choose an experience with 30 000 people singing and jumping in the pyro smoke above any good dribbler or world class tackle. I realise that in the UK you have grown accustomed to people being spectators rather than fans, but tbh you are missing out (sadly).

To me, football is about the fans, not about watching as many £20m players as possible. If that was the case, I could just sit home watch Barcelona every week.

 

[Nottseagull]

Stockholm?

That's AIK Athens, surely!

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

In Sweden the big teams have insane support (not always been the case) and I choose an experience with 30 000 people singing and jumping in the pyro smoke above any good dribbler or world class tackle. I realise that in the UK you have grown accustomed to people being spectators rather than fans, but tbh you are missing out (sadly).

To me, football is about the fans, not about watching as many £20m players as possible. If that was the case, I could just sit home watch Barcelona every week.

Point. You have one. Me...fence.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

In Sweden the big teams have insane support (not always been the case) and I choose an experience with 30 000 people singing and jumping in the pyro smoke above any good dribbler or world class tackle. I realise that in the UK you have grown accustomed to people being spectators rather than fans, but tbh you are missing out (sadly).

To me, football is about the fans, not about watching as many £20m players as possible. If that was the case, I could just sit home watch Barcelona every week.

Oh yes great, might as well sit next to a forest fire. That is awful. I go to watch football not fill my lungs with acrid smoke. One flare is bad enough.

 

[LamieRobertson]

In Sweden the big teams have insane support (not always been the case) and I choose an experience with 30 000 people singing and jumping in the pyro smoke above any good dribbler or world class tackle. I realise that in the UK you have grown accustomed to people being spectators rather than fans, but tbh you are missing out (sadly).

To me, football is about the fans, not about watching as many £20m players as possible. If that was the case, I could just sit home watch Barcelona every week.

I don’t need to sing and dance in pyro smoke to get off for my football ta very much and quite enjoy going to the Amex....sure atmosphere could be better....but if you like it that much go move to Sweden then...personally I’ll be supporting my club ..I’m a fan you see

 

[Nottseagull]

....but if you like it that much go move to Sweden then...

Swansman is, actually, Swedish

Point. You have one. Me...fence.

Swansman will need to well immersed in English to know that means you're undecided.

 

[Swansman]

Oh yes great, might as well sit next to a forest fire. That is awful. I go to watch football not fill my lungs with acrid smoke. One flare is bad enough.

Yeah or like existing close to a road with cars.. awful stuff.. happens to a lot of us though.

Its almost as if there is no way to be 100% safe from pollution, accidents, unhealthy food and other dangers. Its almost as if you should just give up, accept you might not turn 100 years old and just live the days you got to the fullest - just ignore the fact that the beer you had is up to no good.

People seem very keen on using every possible argument to defend a football culture that has been raped by politicians, commercial interests and Saudi-Qatarian-Chinese club owners keen on filling the arenas with their NPC business partners and wealthy tourists.

The other day I saw some FA Cup game played on Highbury just 20 years ago or so and only in that relatively short time period, it was obvious that the change is immense. They've turned the PL into some dead ****ing art show or cheese exhibition or whatever and people just buy it.

Stockholm?

That's AIK Athens, surely!

Ehe, you'd imagine.. but no. While we are completely dead as a people and society, our football is alive and kicking.

 

[Beach Hut]

No doubt our resident Rik (the peoples poet) wet his pants over this

 

[London Irish]

FT 2-0. Fully deserved and could have been more when HSV were caught on the counter attack a few times. Game finished over ten minutes ago and the team are still celebrating with the fans. The Reeperbahn & St Pauli will be lively tonight! Solid performance from Ostigard. Gyokeres never got off the bench.

Seriously I don’t think the StP will care about the rest of the season given this result. They don’t want to get promoted so this game and the return are everything

 

[BN41Albion]

In Sweden the big teams have insane support (not always been the case) and I choose an experience with 30 000 people singing and jumping in the pyro smoke above any good dribbler or world class tackle. I realise that in the UK you have grown accustomed to people being spectators rather than fans, but tbh you are missing out (sadly).

To me, football is about the fans, not about watching as many £20m players as possible. If that was the case, I could just sit home watch Barcelona every week.

Says something really when even the Swedes - who seem to be pretty calm, chilled folk on the whole compared to the likes of the Greeks and Turkish who are a bit bonkers and insanely passionate in life in general - can muster that kind of atmosphere.

As others have said though, I'm not bothered about pyro etc, we've never gone in for that in this country really, but we really have lost something atmosphere wise in our stadiums, hugely because of pricing and the level of customer 'experience' packages we have now. Prime example being Spurs' new stadium and all the ridiculously fancy stuff they have, and even the new 'Dugout' 'experience' at the Amex.

The Premier League being a world wide phenomenon hasn't helped, either. So many tourists at the games soaking up the 'experience'

 

[cjd]

In Sweden the big teams have insane support (not always been the case) and I choose an experience with 30 000 people singing and jumping in the pyro smoke above any good dribbler or world class tackle. I realise that in the UK you have grown accustomed to people being spectators rather than fans, but tbh you are missing out (sadly).

To me, football is about the fans, not about watching as many £20m players as possible. If that was the case, I could just sit home watch Barcelona every week.

Are you allowed to 'Vape' in your stadiums.? or is that considered a health risk ?