Gives a bit of context that shows there a legitimate reason for the friendship and is miles away from the love in shite the other team in Glasgow favour.
Teams around the world we have a connection with.
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Gives a bit of context that shows there a legitimate reason for the friendship and is miles away from the love in shite the other team in Glasgow favour.
Wazza
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Doesn't explain why Bayer Uerdingen have a friendship with West Brom but I get your point.
Amity75
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There's always a West Ham flag in the East Enclosure. I quite like West Ham because I'm a big Iron Maiden fan.
Gio#56
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St Pauli are a very political club, extreme left and Hamburg are on the right. As I say. Hamburg in the north of Germany have far less Catholics than in the South. Having roughly 1 in 10 in the City. They all follow the lefty club St Pauli. As I say each year there is a festival and they invite Celtic supporters busses over and Republican bands.
Hamburg are core right and non denomination or protestant. They have a connection to Rangers for years and just like Glasgow was born via shipbuilding.
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RobbenHood
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That’s the thing but, if everyone made a flag with a Rangers badge and another team they like you could end up with 30/40 different teams crests at Ibrox
I think it’s a wee bit embarrassing but each to their own.
Gio#56
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I agree, hence why I said only Hamburg and Linfield.
Southernlion
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ight be wrong but did not Brora Rangers do something?
Wazza
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I know mate, I have been all over Germany watching Football, first went HSV in 2003 and lived in Munich for a few years - I go and watch Hansa when I can home and away. I actually sat with some St Pauli fans a few years back on the train from Kiel to Hamburg (midweek match when St Pauli had played Holstein, so it was obviously packed with St Pauli) and the number with t shirts on displaying all the Clubs they have links/friendships on was a bit of an education - obviously Vallecano/Celtic but also Israeli ones etc.... Been in some bars in Hamburg where I have been very uncomfortable with the music being played.
Like I said before there all kinds of friendships now, a lot of it is down to Social Media - not very genuine, just the way it has all gone, Will always respect those who go to these places regular though and make the friendship stronger.
Remo-town
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I was only at the wind up mate. Just a wee history lesson
But not tragic enough not to pass comment on.
Basically if your a prodFan wise, Glentoran, Crusaders, in fact I'd say the supporters of most Irish League clubs, with a couple of obvious exceptions, would, at the very least, have a soft spot for Rangers.
Can't abide Linfield myself but then that's because I'm firmly in the red, green and black camp.
Gio#56
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Your visiting the wrong bars. lol Another bear friendly town is Rostock to the north.
The official club Twitter sometimes retweet Hamburg stuff and vice versa don’t they? That’s about as close as it gets I guess.
Remo-town
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I'm not really into the Hamburg thing, more chelsea for me. The lads I know from chelsea have been outpriced at Stamford bridge now, but there still into us.
Got to know them when chelsea came up on the friday night for a friendly, think it was because we were both out of our cup comps. Having said that, I know a lot of guys from london clubs, mainly chelsea, west ham,millwall and charlton, into rangers. Mind you a couple of them who are heavily into loyalism are spurs fans.
I struggle to keep up with current/ local politics, never mind 16th century(ish) Spanish stuff.I was only at the wind up mate. Just a wee history lesson
Wazza
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When your 10 in you don't notice for a while! Yeah, tends to be the older lads that in Rostock though - others take pride in having no fan friendship from my experience. Great support Hansa.
Conlig Loyal
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Of course.Basically if your a prod
Jack Burton
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Is it not a case of supporters of other clubs putting our badge on the flag rather than our own fans doing it?
Jack Burton
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A slightly later flight would be better, the early flight out is a killer.
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RobbenHood
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Seeing them at Ibrox or at away games would probably suggest that not to be the case
Wazza
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The perfect one was Friday out about 5pm and back Monday about 4pm for me. It’s always chopping and changing, sometimes I go from Manchester but Ryanair pulled that.
Jack Burton
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Not if they are travelling up for a game though. I’ve met boys from Bristol Rovers, Plymouth Argyle and Chester who have brought their own flags with our badges on them.
Im not denying it happens, but I think it’s connected to fans of other clubs rather than our own. Although i have seen a Rangers, Chelsea and Linfield flag which I believe was one of our own.
Arsenal with the shares we had.
Stoke with the loving cup.
Stoke with the loving cup.
Jack Burton
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What’s Hansa’s relationship with Hamburg like? I would like to go over for a Hansa game but not sure how we would be welcomed due to our links with HSV.
monkey magic
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Barryhopez
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I hate all the special relationship type stuff/pish and desire to have a connection with random clubs.
"Oh they speak well of us"... %^*& off with that shite...
"Oh they speak well of us"... %^*& off with that shite...
Barryhopez
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Is that due to the Espanyolification, aye?
steviered
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The only thing worse than a binfield fan is a gurn.Fan wise, Glentoran, Crusaders, in fact I'd say the supporters of most Irish League clubs, with a couple of obvious exceptions, would, at the very least, have a soft spot for Rangers.
Can't abide Linfield myself but then that's because I'm firmly in the red, green and black camp.
Wazza
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No expert but it is definitely St Pauli they have the problem with. I am usually alone or with 1 other mate from England when I go. I would never go as a part of a group or anything, would find it a pisstake to be honest as their support is special - something would more than likely happen if you went in the Sud at Hansa uninvited in a group (nothing to do with being Rangers, just a group unknown), made that mistake in K Block at Dresden a few years ago. Be fine in the other ends though. It is very different to Hamburg watching Hansa, no tourists/day trippers/groups etc... The train from Hamburg to Rostock on a match day is good, soon as you get in to Mecklenburg you start seeing Hansa grafitti and lads get on at each stop drinking etc... worth doing if you like seeing different Football cultures.
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BlueDragon99
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Went to see Bournemouth win the Championship at Charlton a few years ago and bought a Charlton & Rangers badge on the way out.
(The Bournemouth end was sold out and only Charlton fans were allowed in on the day. But when I happened to mention that I had come from Switzerland, the girl in the ticket counter reached down and sold me a special "overseas ticket" for £11, less than half the regular price, so I was in a good mood and quite pro-Charlton...)
BlueDragon99
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I went to a German Cup game a few years ago, Offenburg v St Pauli, and accidentally ended up among the St Pauli fans. 10,000 people were crammed into the small stadium and I was so uncomfortable I had to ask the police to let me into the civilized part of the ground, which they thought was very funny. I would never attend another match involving St Pauli, the second worst fans I have ever shared a stadium with...
Conlig Loyal
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One poster on here very recently described St Pauli as a "self congratulatory freak show", which is a brilliant description that equally applies to another team of up themselves perennial victims, one from Glasgow's east end.
Though they've got eff all to be self congratulatory about at the minute.
Wazza
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Were you in the away end or just a case of them being in the home end? When I went to Kiel v St Pauli I was in the home end but loads of St Pauli were in it, it was the match where the Kiel Ultras nicked the St Pauli flag just before kick off but were caught on the way back across the pitch by players and security etc.. Loads of Police yet Kiel and St Pauli fans drinking in the stands in the bit I was in. To be honest I didn't see much bad from them that time, obviously most are lefties mind. Was a load once though from Munich to Frankfurt as they were at FSV and I was going to a match in Mainz, were more like total drop outs (Zechers) who stank and were smashed at like 9am.
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broxi87
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The fans maybe have an affection for other clubs but Linfield is maybe one that the club's have been linked , they were the only side to offer any help when we were struggling.
If it wasn't for Rangers , Arsenal don't exist , simple as that, there is a ling connection there but that is all gone now , the days if big money football ended that relationship.
If it wasn't for Rangers , Arsenal don't exist , simple as that, there is a ling connection there but that is all gone now , the days if big money football ended that relationship.
Dcalm
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Apart from the obvious 2 mentioned I don't think their is a relationship with any other club. I've seen fans from the big clubs in England saying we are cunts and then other fans of the same club saying we are great folks. I don't get caught into this please like me and be my mate like septic do. Most fans (well everyone I grew up with) pick a team from a different country to like, but not really support.
I like our link with Vauxhall motors.
Mr Souness
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We should have a commercial link up with every rangers in the world if possible. from hong kong rangers to rangers de talca, brora rangers, enugu rangers etc. %^*& qpr there shite.
And posta rangers from africa somewhere, ive had a bet on with them and lost they dont score often.
And posta rangers from africa somewhere, ive had a bet on with them and lost they dont score often.
Barryhopez
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But is it special and do Vauxhall drivers speak well of us?
Elder Duderino
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Didn't know that, cheers.
spotlight
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Linfield.
Went to the game at Ibrox in the dark days when they came over. Should have been more at Ibrox that night.
After that, the Bill Struth / Herbert Chapman link with Arsenal and all those friendlys over the decades.
Fans - Hamburg, Chelsea, Bochum, Portsmouth, Man City and others over the years.
Went to the game at Ibrox in the dark days when they came over. Should have been more at Ibrox that night.
After that, the Bill Struth / Herbert Chapman link with Arsenal and all those friendlys over the decades.
Fans - Hamburg, Chelsea, Bochum, Portsmouth, Man City and others over the years.
Barca 1972, Every Barcelona fan sang our songs as the fascist police drafted in from Madrid with there batons trying to break our skulls we're smashed up on the streets. Oh the city was cheering on Rangers, There was a bar in Barcalona with scarfs and tops, flags on the walls for 20 years.
Benny0812
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Met a bayern fan who owned a bar in zante. Said to me Rangers are the only club who have played them that deserved so much more.
Met a man City fan in create who said there fans love us
DJ_RFC_1872
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Chelsea
HSV
Linfield
The blues brothers!
HSV
Linfield
The blues brothers!
