Thread: CNN: The world's coolest football team

... which is FC St. Pauli of course.

Punks, prostitutes and St. Pauli: Inside soccers coolest club - CNN.com

Punks, prostitutes and St. Pauli: Inside soccers coolest club
Hamburg, Germany (CNN) -- On the docks of the German port city of Hamburg, the district of St. Pauli blinks with brightly-colored neon signs advertising countless sex cinemas and private dancers.

This, after all, is where you will find the Reeperbahn, one of Europe's most infamous red-light districts, an area with proud memories of when The Beatles played the raucous venues of the town over a two-and-a-half-year period before they became the most famous band in the world.

But now it is the skull and crossbones -- which fly from almost every shop front and street corner -- rather than sleaze that defines this working-class district of Germany's second city.

The notorious black and white standard isn't a sop to the city's seafaring past, but rather a homage to one of the area's most famous sons: FC St. Pauli, often described as the most left-wing team in the world, who will this season take its place among Europe's footballing elite in Germany's Bundesliga.
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Punks, prostitutes and St. Pauli: Inside soccers coolest club - CNN.com

It's a pretty good article about St. Pauli's recent history, the fans and the promotion to the Bundesliga. There is a video too.

They play their first game against SC Freiburg today.
Tickets for the next 3 home games are sold out already and the new main stand should be finished soon. Good times!

MyP2P.eu :: German Bundesliga - SC Freiburg vs. FC St. Pauli

Could have been us if we didn't have so many arsehole fans who moan everytime we express a bit of culture or history, or an establishment who has pursued our extinction from day 1.

give them a few years, you'll get some success than poof, you'll be stuck with a load of ungrateful dirty new agers uncooling the place.