Going to watch MSV Duisburg
Tradition, loyalty and hope Real football fans are loyal and true. They stick with their team through the bad as well as the good times. They don’t defect to other clubs in search of glory. They keep coming back year after year. Each new season begins with the...
Going to watch Borussia Mönchengladbach
The perfect introduction to the German football experience Borussia Mönchengladbach is the ideal destination for a football weekend in Germany. It is the fourth best-supported club in the country, and regularly attracts over 50,000 noisy and passionate fans. The...
A visit to the Ruhr Museum
It might seem strange to write about a museum in a football blog. I believe, however, that if you want to understand German football you need to know about where it came from. The region of Germany bordered by the rivers Rhine, Ruhr and Lippe - the Ruhrgebiet - has...
The German Football Museum
Football history at its best The German Football Museum is right in front of Dortmund main station, making it one of the simplest destinations in the region for football fans. Spread over three floors of a brand new building, it offers a panoramic and highly...
German football books
Three new German football books Thanks to its growing popularity there is no shortage of books out there for anyone who wants to find out a bit more about German football. Here are three recent additions that are well worth a read. Tor!: The Story of German football...
A new guide for visitors to Germany
Introducing the German Ruhrgebiet Bordered by the rivers Rhine, Ruhr and Lippe the Ruhrgebiet is one of Germany’s ‘hidden gems’. A vibrant, exciting and thoroughly modern metropolis, it is steeped in history and tradition. For over 100 years it has also been the...
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It’s the hope that gets you every time
Unless you are a Bayern Munich fan you don't expect your football life to be one long victory parade. You know that only one team can win the league, that teams can go up as well as down and that there will always be more losers than winners. What really, really...
Borussia Mönchengladbach’s great escape
Five years ago this month marks the final chapter of one of the most exciting Bundesliga comeback stories ever. It’s the story of how Borussia Mönchengladbach stepped back from the brink of relegation. A dreadful season The 2010/11 season had begun disastrously for...
The yellow house on the Schalker Meile
Schalke 04 was one of Germany's first truly working class football clubs. Players and fans came from the same town - Gelsenkirchen - and most from the Schalke district itself. This is where the miners and their families lived, worked and played. The club’s first...