Any news on the St Pauli-Hamburg derby last weekend?
I'm assuming that something happened, because St Pauli have just apologised on Twitter.
It was not a good derby for St.Pauli as they obviously got trashed 4-0, but it seems like their fanscene is divided as well at the moment.
Ultra St.Pauli prides themselves to be different than the other Ultra groups in Germany (who would have thought considering St.Pauli has this annoying " we are different" attitude as well).
Ultra St.Pauli for example dont put stolen banners on display, don´t sing certain offensive songs, don´t throw pyro on the pitch etc.
However during the derby there was a large group of St.Pauli fans on the south terrace all masked up etc. putting stolen HSV stuff on display, throwing flares and basically confessing via a banner that they attacked Hamburg fans during their choreo preparations a while ago.
This lead to the fans on the main stand getting pissed at them and the main stand started to sing stuff like "We are St.Pauli, while you are not etc.", so they basically verbally attacked their own fans.
As of now the fanscene is split into the traditionalists and the new and younger generation and it will be interesting to see how this turns out for them especially as the south stand and the leading groups are trying to keep the south stand "under control" in a sense that they want to push their ideals through. So it remains to be seen if they will try to push the new generation of fans out.
In other and more interesting news:
Frankfurt will play Inter Mailand tonight and we are the last bastion of hope for German footaball. :)
13500+ fans will follow the team to Italy, so we are breaking our own away record from a couple years back when we officially brought 12000 to Bordeaux.
Unfortunately yours truly will not be able to make the trip as I just got out of the hospital...fuck my luck.