Yes, I know that I have been absent this season and have had zero posts for a long time. I offer no excuses other than being busy and a general indolence. Be that as it may, I plan to have open threads during the Confederations Cup next month.
Last year Mércia and I were in Bonn, Germany on a Saturday night last May and watched a table of six women at our restaurant cheering on Borussia Dortmund as they crushed Bayern Munich in the German Cup Final. As much as I dislike Bayern Munich and my heart pulls for Borussia Dortmund, my brain says Bayern Munich. Share your thoughts.
SRW1
What, there is another Championsleague Final? I thought Wolfsburg already beat Lyon last Thursday!
Just kidding, that was the ladies. Dortmund after penalties.
Alison
I kind of love games like this, where I don’t give a fuck who wins – takes the stress out of it, LOL
My prediction though…Bayern 2-1 Dortmund.
Amir Khalid
You’re back!! You’re back!! I’ve missed you, man!
Punchy
Bayern playing SICK futbol lately. This one aint gunna be close. 4-1 Bayern.
Randinho
@Amir Khalid: Thanks!
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
I don’t really have a dog in this fight, but I’m leaning towards Borussia Dortmund just because I’m still a little pissed that Bayern Munich choked last year against FUCK CHELSEA!
Yatsuno
@Randinho: Come to my arms my beamish boy! Oh frabous day! Calloo! Callay!
Oh and Bayerrn, but only because that state in Germany is amazing.
Punchy
Gus Fuckin Johnson is doing the soccer play by play? Whiskey Tuber Flagstick?
MikeJ
As a Donald Westlake fan I have to cheer for the Dortmunders.
SiubhanDuinne
@Yatsuno: I love it when you chortle in your joy.
Amir Khalid
@Yatsuno:
Whie you were there, did you try that famous Bavarian restaurant speciality, Aus dem Fenster geworfen werden, mit ein paar sautierten Kartoffeln?
Occasional Reader
Borussia fans outnumbered Bayern fans 10:1 in central London today. We’ve been colonised!
Yatsuno
@Amir Khalid: Now why couldn’t I get service like that when I was there?
Randinho
Dortmund is playing to win at the moment.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Occasional Reader:
And the letters on the backs of Borussia jerseys outnumber those on Bayern’s 20:1.
SRW1
Getting animated.
Mr Stagger Lee
BVB’s colors look like the Steelers, I am going for Bayern Munchen.
MikeJ
On topic halftime read: How the English Fell In Love With German Football
Punchy
Not sure I’ve seen a half end with zero injury time.
Thor Heyerdahl
My mild liking of Schalke is overpowered by my devotion to FC Kaiserslautern. So go BVB go and fuck FC Bayern!
As for ‘Lautern, dammit they just don’t make it easy for themselves. A chance at promotion back to the Bundesliga vs Hoffenheim and they shit the bed 1-3 in the first leg…and now need to have a massive win in the home leg.
Too bad that North America didn’t take up the promotion/relegation system for their pro leagues. That’s when you find out how much of a fan you really are.
BGinCHI
Randinho!! Good to read you. Hope all is well in your world. I miss the late night footie chatter.
I’m recording it so am going to post and then check back later, but I really hope Dortmund win this. As a Bremen and Dortmund supporter (in that order) I loathe Bayern.
Randinho
@Thor Heyerdahl: What you said Kaiserslautern was where I fell in love with this game.
Marco Reus is really rocking the TinTin look.
Punchy
Gus Johnson has used the word “dispossess” about a 100 times already. Does he not have any other vocab to describe a possession change?
SRW1
Schrott!
Face
A lot of players flopping and falling. Its like a fake physical therapy clinic broke out on the pitch. BD players well aware what worms look like.
Mr Stagger Lee
@Thor Heyerdahl: That would be fun, especially if a New York team was relegated down. I am a more of a fan of football in the Americas(I am a fan of the Boca Juniors), was caught up when the US hosted the World Cup in 1994, especially when the Bay Area hosted the Brazilians.
Thor Heyerdahl
Scheiße! Besser eine Schwester im Puff als ein Brüder als Bayernfan
Randinho
Penalty!
Randinho
Dante should have been sent off for a second yellow.
Mr Stagger Lee
Dante! du Schwein!!!
Thor Heyerdahl
@Mr Stagger Lee: That would be fun. NYC gets relegated while a rustbelt city (I’m thinking Erie or Scranton PA) got promoted.
MikeJ
What a save.
Amir Khalid
@Randinho:
Yes he should, and it would have made for a really interesting second half.
Randinho
Save of the year for Subotic! How I wish he played for the USA.
SRW1
One of the goalies will be Man of the Match. Especially if Dortmund take it.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Randinho:
Agreed. Nani got a straight-up red card for something much less grievous.
Amir Khalid
Robben steals it for Bayern. Scheiße!
Randinho
God I hate Arjen Robben. Now more than ever.
Amir Khalid
@Thor Heyerdahl:
Bruder ohne umlaut.
/Grammatikpolizist ;)
Capt. Seaweed
I didn’t realise the World Diving Championship was this weekend.
Thor Heyerdahl
@Amir Khalid: I saw the error, but FYWP had run out of time to edit.
Ever wonder why Umlaut isn’t spelled with one?
Amir Khalid
@Thor Heyerdahl:
Hmm. Ümlaut? Umläut?
Randinho
@Thor Heyerdahl: In Portuguese it’s called a trema. Funny, but it’s not used anymore.
The prophet Nostradumbass
So I see that Anegla “Austerity for thee, but not for me” Merkel was there.
Randinho
FWIW, I don’t think I have seen Phillipe Lahm so invisible in a game before.
Leeds man
Bloody Bayern. Bloody Robben. Tremendously gifted player, but all the grace of a grounded gibbon.
Amir Khalid
@Randinho:
They do look alike, but a German umlaut works differently from a Romance-language trema.
Randinho
@Amir Khalid: Oh, I know that, but they look completely identical. In any event it is used so rarely in Portuguese that the did away with it. In French they use it for words like naïve and The New Yorker uses it in words like coöperate; both cases to indicate that the two vowels are different syllables.
Yatsuno
@Amir Khalid: It’s all about the vowels. :P
Haydnseek
@MikeJ: For The Win!
Tripod
Went out for a late lunch, and there were a couple of volk at the bar. One gave a loud YA VOL! when BVB scored. Alas, it was not to be.
@Randinho:
That whole thing…. Anyway, up until the Azteca game maybe, but Omar Gonzalez is a baller.
Amir Khalid
@Alison:
Du hattest recht!
Amir Khalid
@Randinho:
That’s just The New Yorker being eccentric. Nobody else uses umlauts like that in English.
Amir Khalid
@Amir Khalid:
Not the umlaut, ninny, the trema.
Alison
WOOHOO I’m psychic. :P
Or, made a good and very reasonable guess, LOL.
Steeplejack
@Amir Khalid:
I do, scrupulously.
ETA: Cedillas, too.
kermit
That was everything an endspiel should be.
Amir Khalid
I didn’t know this about Bayern München.
Origuy
@Randinho:
In English that’s called a diaeresis.
Randinho
@Amir Khalid: Okay, now I hate them a little less.
Randinho
@Origuy: Okay now a little history as to why The New Yorker does this.
Of course if I feel the need for diaresis, I take Imodium AD.