Thanks ! I am lucky to live on one of the hills of Saarbrücken so I am not affected at all, but a lot of friends and colleagues are. So these days are for helping them and that will take some time. More heavy rain is due tomorrow, so we are all a bit nervous.
Re LFC : I started loving the club in the last year of Houllier and like the other German based fans I am not going anywhere The future is always bright with this club and its better to be third than to cheat your way to a fourth, fifth or sixth title or to follow one of these daft London clubs.
Except I live in a forest so it’s a bit more Brothers Grimm than that.
In fact, when we first moved in, a wolf started howling in the distance when I was watching the match and my whippet decided to join in. I told him that he couldn’t play with the wolves, for they are ruffians.
I know Germany has a reputation for being behind the times, what with fax machines still being a thing, but I have to applaud Telekom for their latest addition to the Magenta TV system…
When I was at Television Centre in 2011 they showed me the computer that produced Ceefax. It dated back to the mid 1970s and half the reason they scrapped the service (or, at least moved to digital text) was that if they moved this thing, it would almost certainly break.
Oops. An AfD poster went up near our house and there was a residents meeting about whether it should be taken down.
I mean we decided it was going in about 10 seconds. The rest of the meeting was arguing about which recycling bin it was meant to go in. That has to be the most German thing ever. The meeting ended with beer.
They seem to have messed that article up by naming the perpetrator but disguising the name of the victim as if he was the suspect.
From what I could tell from the radio, the police were largely there because Stürzenberger has a long history of incitement. It sounds like a completely avoidable incident because “freedom of speech”.
And now Stürzenberger is a martyr for the far-right who says he’ll continue, while radical German muslims are over the internet praising the stabbing of people. Dead is the one who had fuck all to do with any of that.
What’s everyone doing in terms of football on TV next season.
I had an email from Telekom today regarding this offer:
Now, on the face of it, it looks insanely expensive, but the best I have seen Sky for (our league games and Bundesliga) is 25€ pro monat and the DAZN at 35€ per month for a year or 45€ per month on a monthly basis.
I suppose the question is how much am I likely to need DAZN for our Champions League games. I would hope to at least make it to the knock out stages but I am not expecting us to win it. Would that be 6 or 7 months worth?
This is becoming an increasingly expensive passtime. I suppose that there is aways the dodgy stream option but I find that drains the joy out of everything.
They do have border checks on occasion. The last time I saw them was during Euro 2024. That was on a back road going between the Netherlands and Germany. We were travelling cross border yesterday and there was no sign of them at all.
Mostly the other times you see border checks are during international meetings (G20, NATO etc). Generally, they take one look and wave you on. I didn’t even have to show my ID card during the Euro 2024 thing, even though I speak German with a very strong foreign accent.
The future is always bright with this club and its better to be third than to cheat your way to a fourth, fifth or sixth title or to follow one of these daft London clubs.
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