All the other bloggers writing about the rise of the Chinese Super League do it from afar. We wanted to check out the scene first hand. Welcome to your first primary research blog post about Football in China.
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Walking around Beijing, there are no clues that there is a Football club at all. Nobody is wearing the jerseys, there is no colourful graffiti, no Continue reading
My guide picked me up at the station and found the bus line needed. It’s one of those adorable post-communist buses with peeling paint and a conductor sat in a high-viz issuing tickets. As we approach Kiev’s Olympic Stadium, quite a sight to see, the vast amount of police becomes apparent.
“Can you ask what’s going on?”.
My guide walks up to a guy in knock-off sportswear and they talk.
“Okay so there is a Football game right now inside that Continue reading
The Zionskirche bells chime through the still Berlin sky. 3 workmen take note of the time and finish their coffee, pausing to allow a mid-30s woman pushing a pram past before leaving. The Milanese café owner takes his time to wipe down the table, as a squirrel races across the road opposite him. It’s 8 am in Prenzlauer Berg.
The former residential Bezirk for East Berlin labourers has had something of a makeover in 26 years. Football anthropologist Simon Kuper described Prenzlauer Berg, his former manor, in strong detail back in 1994. In his book “Football Against Continue reading
Simple and stylish from Werder fans. Check out our post Atemlos; Hertha Away at Bremen for a tale of an epic Police – Football showdown at the Weserstadion.
Seen on location in Hull!
Dynamo Dresden on tour. Otherwise known as; From Germany To Boothferry.
“Goatbusters”, a reference to Bayer Leverkusen’s close neighbours and major rivals 1. FC Köln, whose symbol is the goat. The “Rheinderbies” are always hotly contested affairs and feature quite a bit of bad boy behaviour, the next one between these two sides coming up on the 13th of May – the penultimate weekend of the Bundesliga season!
Pogon Szczecin have something of a friendship with BFC Dynamo and have a lot of fans in Berlin, giving them a big presence in the Germany. These fans are pretty active. Check out our visit to Szczecin for a full report on Football across the Polish border. Spoiler alert: No Pyro No Party.
You’ve not made it as a city until a pop song has been written for you. New York. Paris. Amsterdam. Bangkok. Erm, Amarillo. This tradition exists among songwriters in other languages also. In German, the ballads are usually dedicated to the romance, excitement and hedonism of Berlin. It lends itself far better to poetry than, for example, Bremerhaven. But one unlikely German city has found itself subject of a modern smash-hit.
Rostock. The song Continue reading
From Boothferry To Germany 