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Grüß Gott to all bwfc fans. I'm a fan of Bayern Munich for 25 years now and I think everybody knows why I'm loitering here at the forum

Normally we face only the the top 4 clubs of your premiership Arsenal, Chelsea, ManU or Liverpool in the Champions League but I find it very interesting to meet teams from your country which are not so well-known here. Premier League is very popular in Germany and almost everybody keeps his fingers crossed for his favourite English or Scottish team. Currently you have certainly the best league in europe.

But we also take notice of your problems with the high ticket prices or foreign investors. I used to live in London for 1 year and I really have to say that the prices for a ticket there were quite barefaced.
Would be interesting to hear from you how you think about that commercialisation of football. Do you already have the same problems as the top teams in your league? Is your club still independent?

Do you guys watch the Bundesliga or have you ever seen a match live in Germany? What is/are your favourite team/s if you have one/some?

Questions over questions - i know

Should be enough for the moment - just recognized that my English is getting worse and worse since i've left your country

Rasenmäher wrote:just recognized that my English is getting worse and worse since i've left your country

It's much better than my German.


No rich foreign investor at the moment - unless you count Eddie Davies from the Isle of Man. We've never been able to spend as much as the big boys.

Ticket prices are way to high - but London prices are even higher than ours, particularly at Tottenham/Arsenal.

I'd say we have more problems than the top clubs. They can afford players and are driving up the prices - particularly for young English players, which is why we have such a multinational squad. You can get a foreign player with twice the ability of an English one for half the price.

Not seen a Bundesliga match, and there aren't a lot of German players in the Premiership. But we had Fredi Bobic who helped keep us up!

Always a fan of mental Ollie

and we liked Hargreaves til his move to the filth (cos of his dad)

One of our esteemed members wrote this article about his experience of a German league match: http://www.the-wanderer.co.uk/boards/vi ... hp?t=12993

Welcome, friend.

The top four clubs have the Champions League places locked down, meaning they get richer and richer while the rest struggle to catch up - some even risk spending money they don't have and end up in the third division (Nottingham Forest and Leeds, for example). I can't see any way an equivalent team to Stuttgart could ever win the English league. This isn't helping to keep the game popular, and the ticket prices are ridiculous - there was a much-repeated fact a couple of seasons ago that it was cheaper to watch Bayern than non-league Crawley Town.

Not sure the Bundesliga is televised over here any more. Sky Sports used to broadcast it two or three years ago but I haven't seen it anywhere since. However, it's a very interesting football culture and I defy anyone not to be interested by Uli Hesse-Lichtenberger's book Tor!.

DSB

http://www.play.com/Books/Books/4-/5007 ... oduct.html


FYI

mummywhycantieatcrayons wrote:One of our esteemed members wrote this article about his experience of a German league match: http://www.the-wanderer.co.uk/boards/vi ... hp?t=12993

Unfortunately he caught one of the few stadiums with a running track around the pitch. I think Berlin, Stuttgart and Nürnberg have a running track - the rest has pure football stadiums by this time.

But very interesting article. And by the way quite bizarre as well. In Germany many or should I say most of the fans moan about the atmosphere in our stadiums and admire the atmosphere in English stadiums

Rasenmäher wrote:

mummywhycantieatcrayons wrote:One of our esteemed members wrote this article about his experience of a German league match: http://www.the-wanderer.co.uk/boards/vi ... hp?t=12993

Unfortunately he caught one of the few stadiums with a running track around the pitch. I think Berlin, Stuttgart and Nürnberg have a running track - the rest has pure football stadiums by this time.

But very interesting article. And by the way quite bizarre as well. In Germany many or should I say most of the fans moan about the atmosphere in our stadiums and admire the atmosphere in English stadiums

The away fans create all the atmosphere at our stadiums, with the home fans normally very quiet. Only a few clubs like Portsmouth have noisy home fans.

Don't mention the war

CAPSLOCK wrote:Don't mention the war

only bring back sir nuts threads!!! new rule