It was raining like Katzen and Hunde, after all. So what do you expect?
And, oh yeah. Bayern München won.
Bayern Munich are the club Germans love to hate: There may be some unresolved psychological issues too. The first football chant every German child learns is the Freudian “Zieht den Bayern die Lederhosen aus”: “Pull down the Bavarians’ lederhosen”.
PS: “Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie.”
And they aren’t even making a secret about it this time, either.
The immense assault, utilizing some 150,000 or more crack uniformed German fanatics, will be staged sometime in the late evening hours of May 25 at Wembley Stadium during the Champions League soccer final between two big European soccer teams, I forget which ones. And I meant football, of course, not soccer (I’m not worthy, I’m not worthy…).
It will be the first all-German final in the history of the European Cup and a record-breaking seventh time that Wembley has hosted the match.
PS: Go Dortmund!
How can you (Germany) have a 4-0 lead in the 60th minute (in Berlin) and then end up with a 4-4 draw against Sweden at the end of the match (a World Cup qualifier)?
Beats the hell out of me. But nobody else here seems to know what happened, either. I guess this was just one of those thrill-of-victory-and-agony-of-defeat moments or something. Only it was a tie. Which makes it, I dunno, worse?
Looking on, their manager, Joachim Löw, was in a “state of shock,” unable to comprehend how his players had managed to throw away a 4-0 lead on home soil to a Sweden side that days earlier had scrambled to victory over Faroe Islands. Germany had drawn but it felt like a defeat.
And the Germans didn’t have much swine last night when Italy trounced them in the Euro 2012 semi-finals 2:1.
Having pig (Schwein haben) means to have a stroke of luck, you see. And Emma the pig up there (no relation to Arnold Ziffel) knew it all along, if you can beleive that. Which I don’t.
In the race to emulate Paul the Octopus’ World Cup predicting perfection of two years ago, Emma the Mangalitsa pig from Freiburg, Germany, vaulted into sole possession of the lead on Thursday evening.
Let the Schwalben (diving) begin!
I say… It’ll be Germany 3 : Italy 1. Either points or dives, I’m not sure yet.
Flag waving still leaves a bad taste in many a German mouth, I guess. Especially if the flag in question is 220 square meters in size.
EM 2012 nor not, Berlin officials have refused to let a Turkish store owner mount a huge German flag above his storefront in Neukölln. Ordnung muß sein (order must prevail) again already. “It was not connected properly and covered up a few windows.”
Go Germany!
“Die Entscheidung lag im Ermessen der Beamten vor Ort.”
More sex, and then maybe some soccer at one point.
Yup, it’s time for Euro 2012. And the German team is ready to get it on, so-to-speak. German Manager Joachim Löw is taking a more relaxed approach to his squad this time around as his players will be allowed to “drink, smoke, tweet and mix with their girlfriends” during the Euro 2012 competition.
But he is still a German, after all, so Ordnung muss sein (it must be orderly). Conjugal visits in the team hotel will be limited to specific times.
Germany may not win Euro 2012, but they’ll have the most fun there.
The German Football Federation has rejected Hertha Berlin‘s request to have their relegation play-off fixture with Fortuna Dusseldorf replayed due to fan unrest.
Home groan: How Bayern’s night of destiny became a nightmare.
FC Bayern have lost their last five matches to Borussia Dortmund, the DFB Pokal and the last two championships to Die Borussen and will need to recover quickly ahead of next season.
Looks like you’re toast now, Hertha BSC.
Your relegation playoff defeat at Fortuna Düsseldorf took you out of the big league, yet again.
Although the match go so ugly at times…
That Hertha is now appealing against the result and is requesting a replay, which may or may not be granted.
But if they do get the replay, at least they’ll get the chance to lose fair and square on their own, without any of that pesky soccer fan interference stuff.
“It is written in the rules: if there is an outside influence, which has nothing to do with the game, then the match must be replayed.”
Big girls do cry.
Sayonara, baby (an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting).
It’s about time, really. Not even the German women can win them all. It’s probably because the Japanese women were all radioactive or something, though.
Observing Hermann 