Hi from Greece...

Many fans of many teams here in Greece has hats or t-shirts of St.Pauli

In Karaiskakis Stadium (Olympiacos Home) is always a cross skull flag

In Charilaou (Aris Home) is an AntiFa Flag in every game

In Kautatsoglio (Iraklis home) are also some St.Pauli flags

aliceb wrote:

ps - know 3 Arsenal fans at work who have all spotted Arsenal fans wearing St Pauli top in last year (maybe it's the same guy) One of them went to HSV away and apparently a group of Arsenal fans stayed on to attend the St Pauli match, and sounds like they must have gone shopping in the club shop and/or the fanladen.

I refer you to my earlier answer. I got one of them Cuban/St Pauli fans from the haul

just got back from week in Frankfurt. Absolutely NO St Pauli spotting, except unnoficial St Pauli scarves being sold from a tacky souvenir shop on the main square.

That includes me - my St Pauli hat is the warmest I have but I didn't fancy getting abuse in a language I don't understand by Eintract fans, so it stayed at home.

I've just been in Frankfurt for a week too, and was wearing St Pauli stuff everywhere - surprised you didn't see me!

That's weird - and I was out and about the whole time.

Get any comments?

Got fewer comments than I do over here! A few puzzled looks from people trying to work out why an English person would be wearing a St Pauli top, but that's about it - certainly nothing negative.

Spotted a couple in Costa Coffee Crouch End wearing St Pauli skull and cross bone hoodies, didn't get a chance to wave my St Pauli keyring though.

Onions - how did they know you were English?

And I always wonder why it surprises any German that has more than a passing interest in Football, isn't St Paul famous in Germany for being left-wing and attracting overseas support from like-minded people?


People's lack of imagination and inability to put 2 and 2 together always surprises me.

PS - for those that don't know London, Crouch End is also in the North! The takeover continues.....

My inability to do anything in German except order beer usually has me marked out as English pretty swiftly!

On a tangent (or maybe getting back on topic) my favourite St Pauli spotting was a couple of non English speaking Italians on a bus in Stockholm, who when they saw my St Pauli top pulled a load of St Pauli stickers out of their wallets and started pointing at them excitedly. New friends made despite not being able to speak a word of the same language!

aliceb wrote:

Onions - how did they know you were English? And I always wonder why it surprises any German that has more than a passing interest in Football, isn't St Paul famous in Germany for being left-wing and attracting overseas support from like-minded people? People's lack of imagination and inability to put 2 and 2 together always surprises me.

I can't remember the exact figure but I heard that something like 11million Germans claim to "support" St Pauli, and yet at a lot of away games there are less than 2,000 St Pauli fans.

So I don't think that the Germans are surprised that we "support" St Pauli. They are surprised that we get off our arses and really support St Pauli.

Bit of self St Pauli spotting here today whilst in Melbourne.

On a packed tram a guy recognised my St Pauli shirt and was pleased to see St Pauli here in Melbourne-he was German BTW.

Every year so far, i've managed to see at least two to three St Pauli fans !

Apart from 'solitary wearers' the most St Pauli shirts etc that I've seen at once (outside Hamburg and St Pauli matches) have been at SC Freiburg games. Freiburg have a strong 'left-of-centre' following too and have an affinity with St Pauli fans. Indeed the city in general - where I've spent a fair amount of time - has a very 'left-field' feel to it, though being the hottest city in Germany it's also got a very laid-back, almost Mediteranean feel.
Also saw quite a few St Pauli shirts at a match between Rayo Vallecano and Valencia in Madrid a few years ago. Was talking to one lad on the Metro who was wearing one. Turned out he was a Cuban exchange student of some sort and spoke with some pride and gratitude about St Pauli fans raising money for things in Cuba.

Got stopped by a football fanatic co-worker yesterday while wearing a St Pauli shirt. He'd just come back from Prague where he'd visited a "St Pauli" nightclub and it seems he'd found himself in the embarrassing position of discovering that the help was all for hire and wondered if I could explain the St Pauli connection.

I told him the shirt was a promotional item similar to those crap Guinness hats that appear on St Patrick's Day... you had to have three or more purchases on the night. What a dodo.

Were you the guy in the St Pauli baseball hat spotted in the Winchester City bar by my mate Nick tonight?