Pain & Fun

What a sunday morning.... quite a neutral start, first highlight the excellent coffee combined with the fact that my sunday newspapers are already in my letterbox. But than... the sports part of "Sonntagszeitung": Federer in the Wimbledon Final - nice , Cancellara in the "maillot jaune" - nice, the budget of "my" Soccer team: 7-8m CHF - hmmm.... ticketing income: 6.4m, sponsoring income: 4.3m let's add.... 6.4 + 4.3 = 10.7m.....
ALL other clubs in the first Swiss Soccer league have a higher budget than just ticketing & sponsoring income added but my bloody fcsg not... okok, one could say that they need to get rid of some debts. But the truth is that the owners of the new statium make a lot of money and the club which fills the stadium gets the debts... GRRR..... why bother supporting this money-wasting team?
Because it's THE team, green-white, the love of us "East-Enders" of Switzerland - one of the only things we can be proud of (actually... not really).
Hard to explain, hard to understand.
To be honest: I'm actually not proud of my club and it's management at all... but I'm bloody proud of my brother! The missing link? For ages he's now travelling to each and every game of FCSG to comment for a radio-station, more or less without being paid for. Him and his mate Jaan Schaller became kind of cult in St.Gallen and already three years ago the main newspaper of St.Gallen wrote an article about them: "Keine Ahnung von Fussball" pointing out their very special way of commenting games not just focussed on the game but more on the fun.

Jaan Schaller & Lukas Bollhalder

First I thought nobody really listens to them: a "real" soccer fan probably wants 'serious' commenters and everybody else would not listen to them as they couldn't care less about soccer... but it looks like I'm wrong and not the only followers of their show. Even the 'hard-core' supporters have a thread for them on their forum with some funny pictures.
Maybe one day his 'fame' will go beyond the "East-End" of Switzerland and he will not just write in the local newspaper about his parking fines, his balcony, about tipping in the supermarket, the open air or why it sometimes it is better to order fries instead of sausages.
However, I'll not stop supporting him!