day trip to leitzigrund

gc and yb played an entertaining 3-3 draw with six good goals

lozarn - vaduz 3-1

great victory for luzern. scored
the third in an empty goal after vaduz keeper went to other end of
pitch. playing vaduz is a rare international game in a domestic
league. also surprising that ref lets game play on after linesman has
recieved at least ten plastic cups of beer in the back. in anycase
luzern is back, only a point after vaduz. monday is cup semi at home
looks like it will be sold out.

luzern finally holds on to a lead

and beats bellinzona. may still have a chance to stay up!

hapoel tel aviv - bnei sakhnin

This was an interesting game. Very strong wind and heavy rain. The pitch looked fantastic. Stadium maybe a quarter full and only one stand had a roof. No beer for sale, tea and pretzel had to do. Hapoel had very nice short passing play, especially in the first half hour. Hapoel got a penalty after a beautiful and expressive dive (I was impressed with the extremely high quality dives throughout the game). Their goalkeeper went up and smashed the penalty into the net.

Rain got worse in the second half and so did the quality of the game. Bnei Sakhnin comes from an arab village and has a mixed team which is nice. The game ended 1-0 with Hapoel pressing for a second after the Bnei Sakhnin goalkeeper was sent off after handling the ball outside the area. In all a friendly atmosphere in a ground not far from the sea, this would be great on a sunny day.

taxi driver has a gun...

he also had a deep purple cd he plays on full volume the whole way from the airport to the hotel.

cant complain like the dude though, telling the driver what he thinks about the f-in eagles. would risk entering a world of pain

inter - manchester united

san siro by night

grasshopper club zurich

the ground is almost empty with 4100 spectators. athletics track
around the pitch makes it even worse. the only good thing was that
roland linz (on loan from braga) didnt score.

how depressing it would be to watch grasshoppers in this ground every
week.

away train

today is away day for fc luzern. in typically efficient swiss fashion
sbb has scheduled a train. needless to say it left on time.

Bajen Fans Hockey

In a fantastic triumph of idealism and common sense the bankrupt Hammarby Icehockey team has risen from the ashes. It was not done by administrators taking over after bankruptcy but by the fans themselves.

Rather than trying to salvage the bankrupt club the fans decided to start afresh. This meant playing in a local league (4th division, Western Stockholm, in reality 7th division). It was said it couldn't be done, even the management of the failed team were sceptic.

Now, with only one game left to play, a team comprising of ex-Hammarby players as well as fans who were more used to the terraces than the rinks has secured promotion to 3rd division.

Hopefully this is only the start, we will finally have a team that is run within it economical limits, and always mindful that its existence is only due to its supporters.

AFC Wimbledon , Austria Saltzburg, FC United of Manchester has been joined by Bajen Fans Hockey.

bajen mot kadetten

Jag satt just och funderade pa hur den har bloggen skulle kunna handla mer om bajen nar jag sag det har. BAJEN VAR I SCHWEIZ IDAG. Visserligen handboll men anda. Hade jag vetat om det hade det lungt blivit en tur till schaffhausen. Varfor sa ingen nagot? Kanns riktigt surt, inte sa mycket forlusten men en missad chans att ta pa sig en randig troja. Kanske nan kan bygga nan slags mashup med alla bajen sektioners spelschema och google maps, sa att man kan fa en alert om nagot hander inom nagra hundra kilometer?

http://www.bielertagblatt.ch/News/Sport/134187

young boys of bern in luzern

Idag fick jag lite motvilligt stalla mig pa borta 'laktarn' eftersom en kompis med YB sympatier skulle ga med pa matchen. Jag fick intala mig att jag inte stod bland hundratals gnagare med sprak problem utan att detta var schweizare som gillade bajens tiger randiga alternativ.

Det kanns lite sa dar att hora hundratals grabbar/gubbar ropa efter unga pojkar. Kanske det ar gardare i alla fall? Skulle kunna tro at runt 500 gul svarta var dar. Dom verkade mest intresserade att vifta med flaggor, det var mycket tyst tillochmed efter att dom fick straff och lite senare slog in 2-3 malet pa overtid.

En sang jag nu har hort bade fran marseilles borta sektion och davos hockey grabbar ar den dar som visslas i borjan pa disneys 'robin hood' vet inte om detta ar en vanlig sang nufortiden men later ganska bra faktiskt.

ny stadion

FC Luzern bastamde sig for att dom ville ha en ny stadion. Eftersom det har ar i Schweiz blev det folkomrostming. En annan lag i Schweiz sager att man maste bygga master som visar hur stort en ny byggnad ska bli sa att dom som bryr sig forstar vad som haller pa att handa.

Det visar sig att FCL inte bara vill ha en stadion utan tva hoghus dar bostadsspekulanter kan kopa lagenheter och sen ett kopcentrum brevid. Plus en ny stadion.

Jag vet inte exakt vad dom planerar, men sakerligen ingen staplats. Dom kommer nog att borja salja massa skit med logon pa i butiken, det blir nog en hel del loger. Den moderna fotbollen kommer till stan.

Det kanns lite trist, FCL ar annu i mitten av nittitalet. Dom har 16! produkter i sin web shop. Dom har ol med alkohol i. Borta 'laktarn' ar en slags asfalterad kulle, den tar nog in 1000 pers och har 6 toaletter. Manga skulle nog tycka att det sog att titta pa fotboll har, men det kanns bra som motgift till UEFA MasterCard Cup.

Zugo, Zugo, va fan c....

Poetry of highest order. Note the similar theme to what was sung at Sochaux a couple of weeks ago.

evz-lugano 3-1

Good things with Zug Icehockey; sausages are fantastic. beer has alcohol (though that awful eichof again). there will be goals. ice rink is still shitty and old. its easy to buy tickets.

marseille marseille on t'en....

It was fun to hear that old classic again. The Sochaux boys stands on the upper level behind a goal. They try to make some noice but struggles to get anyone else in the ground with them. Not until 80' and leading OM at home... Actually the FCL fans are much louder and have more songs.

fc sochaux - olympique de marseille 1-0

ASNL stade marcel picot

Ok stade. Par contre fais chier que c'est ferme. Ils n'ont jamais eu un terrain gele? Pas du feu ce soir...

frozen pitch at nancy

One hour before the game the guy at the hotel says its going to be cancelled because of frozen pitch. I was looking forward to the Nice-Nancy game. The only team that could improve that lineup would of course be Brest....

Luzern - Basel 5-1

Luzern beats Big Boys Basel 5-1. Stadium was really on fire and i saw some of the basel kids running around the main SBB station on the way home.