Bitter point losses – part 2

At FC St. Pauli's last home game on a beautiful winter Sunday, everything was set up for a successful end to the first half of the season in front of the home crowd at Millerntor. Great choreography from the fans in the south curve, despite a mediocre game a 2-0 lead against the "bogey team" against whom the brown and white team had not won for a long time and even after the goal to make it 2-1 eight minutes before the end I didn't have the feeling that anything was going to go wrong.

And then came the second minute of added time. Deniz Naki scores the 3-1 right in front of my camera eye and when I take the camera down I see that there is no kick. I ask my surrounding colleagues and no one understands why the goal isn't counted. Seconds later I release my camera again to take photos of Fürth cheering. 2:2!

Sometimes I'm very happy to have this job because it meant I didn't have time to get upset about the incomprehensible goings-on on the field. I was looking too hard for the picture that would make the disappointment of the people of Hamburg clear.

Since these are the last current pictures of FC St.Pauli this year, there are a few more pictures this time.

Construction site

Cleated shoes are waiting to be used

A place in the sun: this is where André Trulsen and Holger Stanislawski accompany FC St.Pauli's games

Water carriers Rouwen Hennings and Morike Sako

Wonderful choreography in the south stand. Behind me, the players on the substitutes' bench were whispering and trying to guess who was the fans' player of the year.

The solution: Player of the Year 2009 is the team!

It looks like a boring picture, but for me it is the picture of the first half: after a terrible first half hour, the players use a break after a foul on Bruns for a team meeting on the pitch. After that the game got better.

Former Fürth player Charles Takyi scores the 1-0, Ebbers celebrates in the background. The Fürther Mauersberger and Falkenberg are frustrated.

Celebrating goalscorer Charles Takyi

Goal celebration for 2-0 by Rouwen Hennings

Deniz Naki is happy too early: his shot on goal to make it 3-1 came from offside

What does Deniz Naki want to tell us with this gesture after celebrating his goal? Perhaps: “Referee phone”?

Deniz Naki has referee Lutz Wagner explain to him why his goal didn't count

The coach of Greuther Fürth Benno Möhlmann explains to Deniz Naki that only one player was between him and the goal line when he passed: therefore offside.

Each player tries to cope with his disappointment on his own

Mathias Lehmann and Morike Sako deeply disappointed

Assistant coach André Trulsen after the game