Comments on: Bayern Continue With The Touching Trend. Kinda.

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 15 May 2008 23:28:35 +0000

Sort of. The two teams met officially in a cup match. The income this match generated helped St. Pauli’s financial situation a lot.

By: -nickt.-

-nickt.- — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:10:05 +0000

didn’t bayern do this for st. pauli a while back as well?

By: chris

chris — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:43:32 +0000

I’m just poking fun at Bayern. I don’t doubt they couldn’t help but score 11 goals, but it is funny when you think about it topically – come to the rescue then put up a double digit scoreline.

By: ben

ben — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:29:21 +0000

I used to go through something similar when I would fire up FIFA or Winning 11, choose an insane club like ManU or the Brazillian national team, then play a friendly against some 3rd division loser. There was no challenge whatsoever, but I did enjoy scoring a goal every 20 seconds.

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:53:32 +0000

You don’t need to have played in the Bundesliga all the time to have some tradition or a name. Though, Bayern were actually saving two clubs. They were supposed to help SSV Ulm as well, who couldn’t organise a match in time, so the two clubs decided to split the wealth. Darmstadt keeps the money from the match tickets they sold and Ulm gets the money from the TV broadcast. This way Bayern saved the ass of two clubs with one game, while scoring enough goals for both clubs. And I don’t see a problem with Bayern running up the scoreline. While the small clubs get the money, the people really mostly paid to see Bayern play and get an autograph by Luca Toni or Franck Ribery.