Long weekend and an away game nearby with a reasonably humane kick-off time plus a special train ride with the Fanladen travel agency - of course I couldn't say no to that. To be honest, I didn't feel like taking photos down on the lawn in Hanover. So I just came along, without lugging around heavy equipment and having a lot of fun I meinem and other fan clubs. But of course I can't leave the house without a camera. Unfortunately, cameras with interchangeable lenses are not permitted as a spectator in Hanover and that reduced the choice of cameras I could take with me to just two. And when I wanted to load my Nikon Ti2, which had recently been working well, with film that had expired in 35 the evening before, it didn't do a thing, even with fresh batteries. That's why you can see digital things today, with the advantage that there are already pictures - and then I won't be there anymore must be upset about the visit to Hanover.
The journey itself was relaxed as usual, the police on site were pleasantly reserved, the stewards were a little too strict about checking the entrance to the standing area block and the game was the way you play when you're at the bottom of the table. The defense mostly did its job well, the midfield was quickly bridged with high and long balls and made it far too easy for the Hanover defense to quickly drive the balls back towards St. Pauli. After the goal against us, the team and coach tried everything again and unfortunately conceded the second goal in stoppage time. Not bad, this hit. The only thing I think is bad about the current brown and white team is that I don't have the feeling that the team believes in itself. Maybe the suspended or non-nominated players should stand in the catching block - the cheering from the block was fantastic, especially in the second half. In any case, the fans believed in the team. Long.
This brings me to the scandal of the day: level limbo on the part of the Hanoverians. Sexist crap. Even the corner presentation of a furniture store was a hit: "More mattresses than on the Reeperbahn". That wasn't funny even 20 years ago. It also fits that the stadium announcer almost hyperventilated when a woman kicked a ball in an attractive shape towards a cement mixer during halftime. As if women couldn't play football.
But the real highlight was the fan banner that hung for the entire first half of the game for the Hanoverians. At the start of the game it said "Fight until the pieces fly" but shortly after the game started it changed to "Fight until the cunts fall". The O was decorated with the St. Pauli club emblem. I wouldn't even trust Braunschweigers to do such infantile crap.
Great pic, Stefan
It's a shame we didn't meet. At least you or your camera saw me...See you soon!
I have to say, I was rather amused by the Hanoverian primitiveness. Anyone who puts so much effort into such messages has…interesting…priorities.
On the other hand, I find it sad that our block can no longer think of any "St. Paulian" answers to such things. Like at the last game in Rostock, when we simply adopted the two-finger gesture and sang "We are all gay Antifa modules" (weren't there even shirts with that?). Yesterday, for example, we could have simply rewritten our tick song with the nice F-word and thrown it back at the 96ers. And what comes? "Shit Hannover, hey, hey."
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