European soccerball is starting up and right away with a banger!
Werder Bremen did the impossible!
They managed to crash out - as a Bundesliga team - in the national Cup competition against the same lower-league opponent, two seasons in a row. Has (probably) only been done once before, by Cologne in the 80s against Hanover. Cologne, also a punchline team in German soccerball.
But Bremen. Lost 2-1 in Bielefeld in the quarterfinals last year. Lost 1-0 in Bielefeld in the first round just now.
Bielefeld played in Third League last year, and in Second Bundesliga this year.
There's a running gag in Germany that the city of Bielefeld does not exist. It's all made up. You're made to believe that there is a city of Bielefeld. But in fact there is nothing. Big conspiracy! Do you, personally, know anybody from Bielefeld? - See?
Bremen plays in the top flight Bundesliga of course. As of now. They got nothing. They had nothing last year. Then the manager fled town, they lost their best scorer for nothing to BIRMINGHAM, they signed a single player all summer, who did precisely nothing in this game. Their goalkeeper today has already been signed away by Frankfurt. They'll now have a guy for a goalkeeper that had once 88 goals crammed up his bottoms in a flamboyantly futile season with Dutch club Volendam.
Now they lost against a team from a city that doesn't exist, for the second time in six months.
Bremen is dead.
And I feel empty.
(silence)
Soccerball, yaaaaay...
