With the pre-season Hull City vs Torino FC fixture announced, let’s take a look at the Serie A club. One of the longest standing Italian professional sports clubs with a very glorious history, if less successful in recent decades. The Northwest of Italy, being the first Continue reading
Everybody else hates them. You realise this as a Hull City fan walking around Germany when they confuse Black and Amber for Dynamo colours. But you cannot help admire the scale and the size of their support. Some of the best on the planet.
Football is an exceptionally good lens to look through to understand people and places. The graphic below shows the distribution of 1st and 2nd Bundesliga teams in the 2015/16 season. One thing stands out bold as brass: East Germany is desperately lacking. You see Continue reading
From Russia With Love.
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.
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.
Our Ultras Aufkleber of the week, brought to you from St. Pauli; a dig at the suspected average intelligence of HSV fans.
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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