I prefer the phrase 'functioning alcoholic'. Not really, I have a mutually respectful relationship with booze. On that occassion I was with a couple of mates on the s-bahn, one who had been before was wearing a Hertha scarf and a couple of the locals got talking, insisted we got off a couple of stops early and walk to the stadium with them, drinking on the way. Good experience.Lol, that sentence makes Stan look like a desperate alcoholic...![]()
It's a great stadium,but you are right, not for watching football in. When I went there were about 37,000 in there. The Ost Kurve is great fun though (I don't believe any one really watches the game anyway). You know what it's like, a decent first experience, like you with the Ruperts. Couple of day's later we went to Wolfsburg - great stadium, good fans, truly horrible town, but I was already a Hertha fan by then.....Standing does make a huge difference. To be honest that long weekend restored my faith in football, sorely tested by QPR, great fun and great value, the way it used to be for us. German football is something to be proud of. Except Bayern.Don't go to Hertha matches!
They play in the ugly athletics stadium they call "Olympiastadion" which they never fill so the atmosphere is mediocre at best.
This is how it looks like most of the times:
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Have only heard good things about Union and their fans. There is a QPR fan called Mel Huckridge who travels to watch football constantly, and is a huge Union fan. He's written a book 'Grounds for Divorce'. Haven't read it but have chatted to him in the pub.
Here's another view of the Olympiastadion
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and enjoy the lower leagues my friend.....
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