1-0 elimination from the cup by second-division St. Pauli
in a first-round upset left its fans with plenty of sorrows
to drown on the way home
Something tells me they weren't drinking this on the return run...
Posted on 08/06/2007 6:56:43 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
BERLIN - Germany's national railway wasn't about to risk sending a trainload of soccer fans to a German Cup match without beer.
Federal police said Monday that the beer tap failed aboard a special train carrying Bayer Leverkusen fans to Hamburg on Saturday. The fault was discovered half an hour into the journey.
"In order not to endanger the good mood" of the passengers, railway officials halted the train in Wuppertal for 25 minutes and had a replacement part delivered by taxi, a police statement said. It added that there was no trouble among the fans.
Their team was less obliging. Top-division Leverkusen's 1-0 elimination from the cup by second-division St. Pauli in a first-round upset left its fans with plenty of sorrows to drown on the way home.
Egad! You might as well have a train without brakes as that!
Suds ping.
Something tells me they weren't drinking this on the return run...
Drunk German soccer fans...the mere thought makes all of France surrender.
Now that is funny!
It’s good to see that the Germans have their priorities straight.
Endanger the good mood? Is that a euphemism for "Oh sheiss Helmut, we better get these guys some beer before they stage a putsch!"
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