Who should Sheffield United fans be supporting in German football?

[ThatJa]

If posted already, apologies..

 

[Bruce Wayne]

None fuck the German sausage sucking twats.

 

[DifferentClass]

Schalke are cool despite their unfortunate colour scheme.

 

[breeny]

Not sure how you support through a tv but Union Berlin have a great set up...all
About the fans though so the whole lot will be shit.

 

[Silent Blade]

Eintracht Frankfurt were my German team in the mid 1970s. Dont know why as I didnt know any of their players despite knowing quite a lot who played for Bayern Munich and Borussia Monchengladbach (they had a good team in the 1970s). I just looked for their results in the papers before losing interest. Found out this week that there were two West Germany players that I knew from the 1974 World Cup final were Eintracht Frankfurt players! Jurgen Grabowski (tricky right winger) and Bernd Holzenbein (who dived for the penalty that Breitner converted)

 

[FriethBlade]

Monchengladbach for me, did an athletics exchange with Neuss AC for a week when I was a kid and the lad I stayed with supported them

 

[foggy72]

FC St Pauli, a football club with amazing standards, political ideals and has a cult status in the UK https://www.theguardian.com/music/2...t-became-the-football-team-of-punk-and-techno

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Die Fohlen

 

[Trigger Blade]

If you take the Bundesliga Skandal of 1971 as a measuring stick, Schalke does indeed share a heritage with Sheffield, a sporting one.

Unfortunately, in that context, it’s with the cheating oinkers, involving as it does match fixing bribes from 50 years or more ago.

 

[More Bladier than thou]

Dont think anyone really gives a shit, just monitoring it to see if this isolation and testing thing will work so they can finish.

 

[spongebobblade]

Eintracht Frankfurt were my German team in the mid 1970s. Dont know why as I didnt know any of their players despite knowing quite a lot who played for Bayern Munich and Borussia Monchengladbach (they had a good team in the 1970s). I just looked for their results in the papers before losing interest. Found out this week that there were two West Germany players that I knew from the 1974 World Cup final were Eintracht Frankfurt players! Jurgen Grabowski (tricky right winger) and Bernd Holzenbein (who dived for the penalty that Breitner converted)

 

[Ginger Gnome]

Augsburg have a neatly trimmed bush on the badge and their manager has been banned for a toothpaste violation.

 

[KoppedOff]

I’m going to pick Bayern Munich because I’ve got used to being quite good for once and frankly, I like it. I’ve spent 36 years not being a glory hunter, so fuck it; I’m indulging myself and going full plastic.

 

[Berlin Blade]

Union Berlin.

Red and white, working class club traditionally in the second tier, experiencing their first season in the top league and doing pretty well. They have a bitter rivalry with the blue and white side of the city with delusions of grandeur who play in a rusty old ground waaaay too big for them, which was given to them by the government (albeit in much different circumstances to our porcine neighbours).

Also, I live here.

 

[SwissBlade]

Union Berlin.

Red and white, working class club traditionally in the second tier, experiencing their first season in the top league and doing pretty well. They have a bitter rivalry with the blue and white side of the city with delusions of grandeur who play in a rusty old ground waaaay too big for them, which was given to them by the government (albeit in much different circumstances to our porcine neighbours).

Also, I live here.

Started working with a German engineer in Switzerland back in 2008 and he took us to Berlin in around 2010/ 11 to watch “onion” Berlin.

They were 3rd division back then, I think. About 20,000 there, mostly standing, drinking on the terraces and had to walk through a forest to get to the ground

They’ll do for me

 

[Roygbiv]

Union Berlin.

Red and white, working class club traditionally in the second tier, experiencing their first season in the top league and doing pretty well. They have a bitter rivalry with the blue and white side of the city with delusions of grandeur who play in a rusty old ground waaaay too big for them, which was given to them by the government (albeit in much different circumstances to our porcine neighbours).

Also, I live here.

Bundesliga return: Which club should you follow based on your Premier League team?

From Liverpool or Manchester United to Leverkusen or Mainz, which Bundesliga side should you be following based on your Premier League club?

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[Sid1978]

Union Berlin it is.

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

Karlsruher SC,always had a soft spot for them since the late 60's when my brother went over to Germany for a year teaching,he used to send me letters and postcards and tell what he had been doing in his spare time,he used to go to Karlsruher's home games.

 

[ucandomagic]

SC Freiburg is the one for me.

Mid table, but play nice football with a good innovative manager - Christian Streich.

A superb young CB/defensive mid called Robin Koch. Young Luca Waldschmidt up front is a bit useful as well, alongside their old fox version of Billy - Nils Petersen.

Generally play in an ok red and black design, sometimes some white, so can relate a bit to that.

Lovely part of the country if you get hooked and want to visit later on as well. Camped nearby at Kirchzarten many times in my youth.

Let’s go Breisgau Brazilians.

 

[knowsnowt]

I've had an hatred of anything German since Billy Casper got laughed at for mentioning German bight in class.

 

[Oreyt]

SPVGG Greuther Fürth, purely based on their Hummel shirts

 

[Kev Gee]

RB Leipzig.

 

[S64 Blade]

If posted already, apologies..

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You could apply that logic to any city in the Rhine/Rhur region tbf.

I’ll be watching out for Dortmund as I went to see them and Union Berlin, who they actually played that day and have a good ethos/culture.

 

[Rollerball]

No idea where it came from, but I've kinda followed Wolfsburg for quite a while, back when they were a second tier mediocre club als a soft spot for Vfb Stuttgart but that's from spending a fortnight many years ago celebrating their cup win or summat with 20odd of their fans whilst on a Holliday in Spain.

 

[DaveBassettsgoneonholiday]

Anyone ......... ?

 

[Dkc]

The only German team I like are Kaiserslauten, who dumped the pigs out of Europe back in the 90s

 

[Tezza1889]

The only German team I like are Kaiserslauten, who dumped the pigs out of Europe back in the 90s

That's my shout, regardless of Sheffield being twinned with bochum, they just shade it for humiliating them arse holes and sending them crying back to the ferry...

 

[Tony]

1. FC 1911 Hochstadt e.V. Nice small town club.

 

[Tony]

1. FC 1911 Hochstadt e.V. Nice small town club.

 

[ElephantBlade]

Went to watch Schalke play Frankfurt last season - a great experience and stadium. Great atmosphere considering the poor season they were having. Definitely the German team I will be "following".