It's 3:30 a.m. Saturday. Home game day. My alarm is ringing. I wake up in Freiburg for professional reasons and now have to go back to Hamburg via Basel. I've never had such a long journey to a home game. But there is someone sitting at the gate wearing the magic FC jersey and I find it remarkable that other people often go through this kind of hardship for a game at the Millerntor. There has to be a win...
It doesn't, because FC St. Pauli didn't take advantage of the good chances in the first half and Schnatterer didn't let go of his negligence in the second half to score the opening goal.
The only thing that was possible was the equaliser, partly because the final step was not taken after the completely unjustified double yellow card to Veermann and Allagui. The referee was insulted by the rows behind me as a "dixie-toilet diver" for this action. That's true (nice), but FC St. Pauli dropped the two points, especially in the first half. They simply lacked the precision in the final pass and also the energy to follow up.
As always at Millerntor, the game is only part of the afternoon. This time the banners on the main showed that their ultras drink gin, while the ultras on the south probably like rum. Something is then hashed away on the north, which probably also causes red eyes on the south.
In addition to remembering Michel (and my wish for everyone to deal with depression as well as possible), another focus was on the situation at Bernstorffstrasse 117: better known as "Viva la Bernie". A major investor has bought a community that has existed for many years - or more precisely: its rooms. They have now paid an unimaginably high sum for a few square meters of beloved space in order to make the major investor an offer to buy it. The whole situation is unsatisfactory and leads to several of the most important questions in a growing city in which property prices are becoming too high for many people. "How do we want to live? Who decides how we live? Is the property market stronger than the will of the people?" On November 14.11, these and other questions will be discussed at a round table in Altona Town Hall. Anyone who finds the time to take part in the discussion starting at 15:30 p.m. should do so.
And here it’s all illustrated again…
Postscript: Thanks Toby for scrolling this far this time. Thank you very much and kind regards!
