This week’s Ultras Sticker of the Week is from Hansa Rostock. A club with little success but a fan base that you don’t mess with. Check out that pyroshow.
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Ultras Aufkleber of the Week – Austria Salzburg
Only after the watershed this time. The caption translates as ‘Horny for Austria’. The boys at SV Austria Salzburg are not large in numbers but boast a lot of creativity and don’t shy away from the spotlight. See our post ‘Saving Austria Salzburg‘ for a brief overview of the club and an account of their eventful meeting with 1. FC Union Berlin earlier this year.
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Relegation 2016
As the season draws to a close there are two thoughts regarding the relegation stories of two of Europe’s strongest leagues.
Sunderland
I just don’t understand how they manage this every single fucking year. 2 years ago, Continue reading
Ultras Aufkleber of the Week – St Pauli
Our Ultras Aufkleber of the week, brought to you from St. Pauli; a dig at the suspected average intelligence of HSV fans.
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Ultras Aufkleber of the Week – Anderlecht
A new feature for From Boothferry To Germany; we’re gonna start sharing some of our favourite ultra stickers we come across once a week to help inspire with some of the creativity that Football fans have in abundance.
We start off with Anderlecht’s “Mauves Army 2003”.
Keep posted for more coming in the future.
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Club Comparison, England and Germany
With Germany welcoming England tomorrow in the Olympiastadion for the pre-Euro 2016 friendly, I decided to have a bit of fun. There are less of them overall, but the German Football clubs occupy the same positions and fill the same niches in the structure of national Football in the eyes of the fans as the English clubs do. This post is a bit of a tongue in cheek explanation of where German and English clubs sit in the reality of Football. Enjoy.
Bayern München are Manchester United
Eternally strong and successful, almost eclipsing the legacy of the industrial stage from which the team came. Similarly the core of really diehard ultras are nowadays eclipsed by armchair fans buying their merch from supermarkets Continue reading
This is How Germany Promotes Safe Sex
Found on the wall at the doctor’s. It’s always been a common advertising practice to use a pop-culture reference as a vehicle for whatever you’re selling, but disguising condoms as badly painted cartoon footballers created by the clinic employees to get kids to use contraceptives is just laughable. Clearly the German Public Sector workers are a bit naive when it comes to understanding what will impress the judgmental youth of today.
Unless there is an untold narrative that I’m missing here? Maybe this is the story Continue reading
Historical Football Kits
This great website, Historicalkits.co.uk, has managed to work to create complete lists of previous playing shirts of British football clubs going back centuries. The site gives a brief but accurate club history and even has information about some very obscure clubs Continue reading
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