Bad news had struck though, Brinner had got steel splinters in his eyes. Not good, and after leaving A&E on the thursday night he was stil in a bad way. Fair play for still coming!
After driving down to Luton we boaarded our very basic easyjet flight to Dortmund
After a visit to the local shop Brinner was straight into the local "cuisine"
After catching a bus into Dortmund we were soon off on the train to our beloved city!
BOCHUM!
You crowbag!
After checking into our hotel we made our way over for our first game.Borussia Monchengladbach vs FSV Mainz 05
We arrived in Gladbach where it was pretty clear everyone was football mad. The train station was packed with football fans and there was even a fan shop at the station. We duly got ourselves some Jager and scarfes!
There was a free bus to the Borussia Park. Impressive from the outside.
Even more impressive inside!
The away support (20 mins before K.O)
So we picked a spot on the main terrace, not knowing this was where all the nutters were going to stand. We were right in the midle of them! Brinner loved it!
Banners!
Pre-match Atmosphere !
Teams out!
After half an hour BMG broke the deadlock! Argie Raul Bobadilla opening his account for the "foals"
Corner action, with our favourite man Guiness!
The 2nd half was played under the moon!
The teams came out to play but we had moved!
We'd left the crazy antics of the terrace and moved to our actual seat (!) in the upper tier. Luckily Gladbach have two terraces and we were right next to the other terrace, and the fans in their were even more mental!
Substitute Marco Reus looked brilliant and scored a fantastic goal to round off his night. 2-0 was how it finished!
PARTY TIME!
Humba
Overall throughourly impressed with BMG, a great ground, great fans, and a decent team too!
We eventually found our way back to bochum, and it was very late, so we headed to our favourite pub! Bermuda!
We'd left the crazy antics of the terrace and moved to our actual seat (!) in the upper tier. Luckily Gladbach have two terraces and we were right next to the other terrace, and the fans in their were even more mental!
Substitute Marco Reus looked brilliant and scored a fantastic goal to round off his night. 2-0 was how it finished!PARTY TIME!
Humba
Overall throughourly impressed with BMG, a great ground, great fans, and a decent team too!
We eventually found our way back to bochum, and it was very late, so we headed to our favourite pub! Bermuda!
Fiege was the only choice! With the best bottle lids too!
We drunkenly made them into "Flamin'Fiege' "
We grabbed one of the worlds best pizza's and headed to the hotel!
Next mornin' whad a bit of a lie-in. We headed off to the RurhStadion where we met up with some familiar faces.
We drunkenly made them into "Flamin'Fiege' "
We grabbed one of the worlds best pizza's and headed to the hotel!
Next mornin' whad a bit of a lie-in. We headed off to the RurhStadion where we met up with some familiar faces.
Pete!
Chris!
Olly!
Chris!
Olly!
We then headed to Leverkusen, for our game but we had to go onto Koln first to drop off some bags!
So it was back to my favourite German Bridge
And my favourite German Church!
So it was back to my favourite German Bridge
And my favourite German Church!
But before long we were back in Leverkusen and heading to the game
Bayer Leverkusen vs VFL Bochum
The BayArena had recently had a referbishment to turn it into a world class stadium. Only adding 8'000 seats to take the capcity to 30'000 but a huge new roof and a lot of building work totalling 100million euros. A lot of people in germany didnt really understand why they spent so much money!
It looked impressive anyway.
The away entrance
Inside it looked just as good.
The away entrance
Inside it looked just as good.
Different to other grounds i'd been to the home terrace was in the corner
The rooooof!
Stadium filling up.
Safe standing (Note - Nobody was hurt!)
Home fans make some noise and demonstrate the array of flags!
The away end
Safe standing (Note - Nobody was hurt!)
Home fans make some noise and demonstrate the array of flags!
The away end
Make some noise!
The teams come out!
noise levels rise!
Bochum go 1 up totally against the run of play. Diego Klimowicz with the goal
Heerwagen in goal shows appreciation to the travelling support. He had a great game.
At half time it was 1-1 unfortunately bayer had got the equaliser, a deserved one at that.
Sami Hyppia!!
The big gunss get thrown on.
Bochum supporters still making plenty of noise, trying to get a winner
The big gunss get thrown on.
Bochum supporters still making plenty of noise, trying to get a winner
But it wasn't Bochum who got the winner, it was Leverkusen and Stefan Kiessling.
Final whistle the bochum players had battled hard but played very badly up top, Leverkusen were deserved winners but we were still proud of VFL.
The Bochum players were gutted.
Fans won't let a defeat stop them having a good time!
The home fans were delighted to!
Photo time afterwards
It was soon time to say bye to the BayArena
And Bye to the cockneys as they head south to Basel to watch a game!
Photo time afterwards
It was soon time to say bye to the BayArena
And Bye to the cockneys as they head south to Basel to watch a game!
We headed back to Bochum where we met the Germans who had invited us to their "Gun club" party.
We were VERY sceptical about this, but it turned out to be great. We were treated like VIP's and there was LOTS of free beer and people kept bringing shots to us.
Thanks can only goto Philip and Nina!
Obviously with some much freee alcohol things got messy!
No-one has any recolection of this photo!!
Obviously with some much freee alcohol things got messy!
No-one has any recolection of this photo!!
We got the tram back into the centre of city and tried the nightlife..the VERY patchy memory recalls Hooters and being thrown out of a pub....and not much else!
Click here to read about the rest of the trip!
Click here to read about the rest of the trip!
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