I'm not bitter ... but I hate you all (other teams thread)

I'm guessing the folks in those places might suggest that the foods are named after the cities, and not the other way around. But yes ...

Eintracht Frankfurt
Eintracht Braunschweig
RC Vichy

https://www.sandwichtownfc.co.uk/

 

That is literally the reason I'm going. My local does a brilliant Czech pils, but they've just tapped out, and they typically only do a (large) batch every other year. So when my English footy options refused to align, and my buddy Winfried said he'd be home (Frankfurt) for a couple of months, I said, "get a train to Prague and we'll neck a few pints and watch some footy." So that's what we're doing.

 

Whenever I go to a new ground, I usually buy a scarf. Of course, with the exception of Spurs scarfs (scarves?), I almost never wear them. But they serve as mementos/keepsakes of the grounds - which are probably more why I go than for the footy, itself. I've got a serious sporting architecture jones; old footy grounds and baseball parks, primarily.*

Dumber still, I have too many of them to display in any way, so unless they're really cool, they just go into a huge pile in my closet. So one of these days, I'm just not gonna bother anymore. But my guess is that I'll get one at Plzen, as I've not been. I'll almost certain do Sparta v Teplice on Sunday, but I won't get one there, as I've already been to Sparta.


*but with a nod to old high school basketball courts/gyms, too. Here in Indiana, we've got some real beauties.

 

That can't be more than 20-25% of them, at a guess, just hanging on an old antique drying rack in a spare room. I should probably be more selective, and just put the coolest ones up ... but meh ... they just hang there.

 

Domino's sums up the mood at Forest.

 

Yeah, the winding up petition means the next logical step is Chansiri putting the club into administration. But the fact is that Chansiri has defied rationality throughout this whole saga, turning down offers for the club while its value continues to drop. There's a genuine fear that he's been acting out of vindictiveness and may continue to do so. That he'd prefer burning the club to the ground to 'being forced' to do anything. Some 'Thai code of honour'-type thing. And to be honest, Wednesday fans have been harsh enough on him that a degree of vindictiveness isn't all that hard to comprehend.

So while most (that I know) are begrudgingly pleased that this should move the process along, they're also nervous, as no one can be 100% certain where it leads.

Dropping down a division is all but expected (if for the quality of the squad alone), regardless. Nobody would want Chansiri to stay, even if it meant staying in the Championship.

 

I like the fact that Wolfsburg was once managed by Wolfgang Wolf.

 

Actually, it's over.

 

Actually, we did get one.