Halftime score: 0:0 Niko Bungert has a market value of €2.5m. He marked Robert Lewandowski (who scored 5 goals in 9 minutes against Wolfsburg last week) Market value? €50m He…
The inventiveness of Mainz 05’s hard-core fans knows no bounds. Any vertical space is fair game, but thgs is creative – 19 on the left butress, 05 on the right…
Mainz 05. Home game. Park the car in Bretzenheim Walk through the fields.
One of my sporting epiphanic experiences was watching a game of our local team, Mainz 05. Mainz had recently reappeared in the First Division and had a horde of middling-to-good…
…wenn ihr Mainzer seid” (“On your feet/Get up if you’re a Mainzer” – classic Mainz 05 fan chorus ) The Allgemeine Zeitung ran an article on Mainz Daily Photo the…
The entertaining Christians vs Lions game did finish at the Colosseum Via Fractus at 17:15. And thus did the 20,300 disciples of the Tribe of Mainz 05 follow Presidentus Strutzus…
> Almost like Chicago…. Strolling back from the Christmas market on Saturday night when all of a sudden 4 (FOUR) police cars with sirens a-wailing and blue lights a-flashing come…
> 21 points. Bayern Munich, the perennial championship with an annual budget that approximates the GDP of a small country, is a mere 3 points away from the relegation zone.…
> “People who don’t believe in miracles aren’t realists” Thus spoke Walter Scheel, a former Federal President. Things like this aren’t meant to happen. The local team, Mainz 05, yo-yos…
> Lurking around the Karneval section of one of the hypermarkets in a condition of open-mouthed disbelief, I stumbled over…. …..a whole section of paraphernalia devoted to Mainz 05. Now,…
> They never had a chance, of course. The coach reckoned that it would be a sensation if they squeezed out a draw.(He said that they might have a chance…
> Rituals are important. When you go to a Mainz 05 game, there’s a fixed procedure: Get there an hour early Get a beer Discuss strategy with whoever’s within earshot…
> And NOW I know why football/soccer players are overwhelmingly overcome by gravity and writhe around the pitch in excruciating pain as soon as one of the opposition gets near…
> A very welcome sight at yesterday’s match was this chappy (I think his name’s Bernard…) who turned up midway through the first half (by which time we were leading…
> Excellent! Christoph‘s got hold of 2 tickets for today’s Mainz05 game vs Hanover. Must be do-able – Mainz 10th in the table, Hanover 16th – but Hanover’s got…
> Scuba-diving, going to the dunny and climbing ladders (only if you’re a suitcase, though) are all things on the “No No” list at Mainz 05’s football ground. How about…
> Here’s one of those classic “Only in Mainz” stories. Mainz 05, the local football team, has drifted around at the top of the 2nd Division for years and inadvertently…
>Ever since I’ve been interested in the fortunes of the local football team, it’s always been a bit hard on the nerves.This season’s no different. Three teams get promoted at…
>Yesterday was good. My mate Tibor called me up with 2 free tickets for the game against Paderborn PLUS 2 VIP Lounge tickets. (Tibor – being Hungarian – has lots…
>Driving down past what used to be the “Mainz – South” station (now renamed to Mainz – Roman Theatre” is like entering a canyon. The Lampenfabrik was always there, the…
>No, not George W. Bush’s lot. The Germany-for-the-Germans, seal-the-borders-and-kick-out-the-foreigners, extreme right wing splinter party (i.e 1% of the total vote and shrinking) held a conference (about 800 delegates) in the…
>Big do at the Gutenberg Center (their spelling, not mine…), a greenfield site with a mega-supermarket and a mega-electronics store in Bretzenheim, yesterday evening. MediaMarkt (aforementioned mega electronics store) and…
>That’s “Have another beer” in Ghanaian. I think Or the name of the team that had to stand in on short notice for Werder Bremen (which is one of the…
>Friday evening. 6 p.m. Mainz 05 vs. Bremen. Me and my mate Christoph. A beer before the game, a beer and a sausage in a roll with mustard at half-time.…
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