3rd Edition

January 2012

Next Streams: Sunday 12th Feb v Bochum Sunday 26th Feb v Eintracht Braunschweig

A club like no other

These are trying times for St Pauli fans everywhere. At some stage weve all asked ourselves why we are standing here, particularly those of us living far away from the Millerntor, as we have all made an informed choice to follow the brown-whites. Supporting St Pauli is not like stumbling on your local club as a child or trophychasing with the latest moneybags premiership club; no, weve all got different reasons for being here, but they are mostly to do with authenticity, politics or the wonderful nature of the St Pauli fan community. What is it about St Paulianer that makes us want to invest our emotions (not to mention time and finances in getting to see matches, whether in Leeds or Germany)? Without any shadow of a doubt, we love the special atmosphere at the stadia, being surrounded by people who wont threaten or embarrass, who are generally tolerant even of their biggest foes, magnanimous in victory and not scared of defeat. Certain parts of the media and German political scene have been keen to paint an altogether different picture of St Paulianer following the Schweinske Cup debacle, but the response of the club speaks volumes. Where most clubs would have disowned their fans, the club boldly pointed to eyewitness reports reporting mismanagement of the situation by the event organisers and the police. Head of Security, Sven Brux, who was struck by a police baton as he waited on a stairwell at the venue, commented admirably and honestly on the situation too, whilst ultimately reasserting the clubs anti-violence stance. And the Fanladen then decided to postpone its own fanclub tournament (which was to be in the same hall!) to instead debate openly with fans and witnesses the issues surrounding the Schweinske Cup. The press was barred from this meeting, by the way! These are not the actions of any old club; these are dignified responses in support of decent human beings caught up in seemingly unchecked and unmonitored provocation from farright extremists. I know why I am standing here.

Sunday 18th March v Aue Sunday 25th March v Energie Cottbus

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By Rob.

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A look back, and a look ahead.

Hi All, Firstly, thanks for taking the time to read our newsletter. The last game v Frankfurt seems like it was months ago, and I cant wait for the second half of the season to commence. Its been an eventful couple of weeks, with the troubles during the Schweinske Cup taking giving the club some unwanted attention. Well cover these troubles in the newsletter, but Id like to focus my piece on the positives coming out of the club, the things you might have missed during the winter break, and take a look ahead to the rest of the season.

Schweinske Cup
Just in case youve hibernated over the winter period and missed the news, troubled occured during the Schweinske Cup, with St Pauli fans coming under attack from both the police and supposed fans of Vfl Lbeck. Later in the newsletter well have a translation of the main points of the official club statement on the subject.

Team News
The return to training in 2012 saw the welcome return of some absentees! Carlos Zambrano returned along with Moritz Volz, Carsten Rothenbach and Lasse Sobiech - all of which will add some depth and quality in defensive areas for the second half of the season. Andre Schubert will have a selection headache picking his defence in the coming weeks! Hopefully this will be the end of the injury curse that hindered us in 2011.

Comings and Goings

The only disappointing aspect of the huge win against Eintracht Frankfurt was the injury to goalkeeper Philipp Tschauner, particularly given his superb performances during the first half of the season. The injury raised questions as to who would replace him in goal, a question which was answered last week when St Pauli signed Philipp Heerwagen on loan from Bochum for the rest of the season. Heerwagen is third choice at Bochum, having fallen out of favour there. As expected during the winter break, Rouwen Hennings has joined Osnabrck on loan until the end of the seasongiving him an opportunity to get first team football. Defender Florian Mohr has agreed to leave Paderborn in the summer when his contract ends to join St Pauli on a free transfer. Mohr was born in Hamburg, and trained with Werder Bremen before making the move to Paderborn. Mohr has scored 3 goals in 14 games for Paderborn in 2.Bundesliga this season. Finally, Florian Bruns has extended his contract at the Millerntor until 2013, and Charles Takyi was named in Ghanas squad for the African Nations Cup.

Stani returns
On Sunday 15th January, Stani returned to the Millerntor with his Hoffenheim side for a friendly, which the away side won 2-1 after a late goal from Ryan Babel. Schindler scored the goal for St Pauli. Following the friendly defeat, the club went to a training camp in Spain. On Thursday 19th, St Pauli won 2-1 in their friendly against CF Gandia, after goals from Mahir Saglik and Petar Sliskovic. Gandia had taken the lead in the 19th minute, but St Pauli came from behind against the Spanish third division side, Only Zambrano played the full 90 minutes, the rest of the team was changed at half time. Before the season returns, St Pauli will play friendlies against Wisla Krakow

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(22nd Jan) and Grasshoppers Zurich (28th Jan).

Looking Forward
The end of the 2.Bundesliga campaign promises to be a nail-biting one, with only 3 points separating leaders Fortuna Dsseldorf and 5th place Paderborn. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Fortuna Dsseldorf 42 points Greuther Frth 40 points Eintracht Frankfurt 39 points St Pauli 39 points Paderborn 39 points.

Fixtures
The next set of fixtures were announced during the winter break, with the dates and times finally confirmed. These are: Saturday, 04/02. 12pm. Alemannia Aachen - FC St. Pauli Sunday, 12/02. 12.30pm. FC St. Pauli - VFL Bochum Friday, 17/02. 5pm: MSV Duisburg FC St. Pauli Sunday, 26/02. 12.30pm: FC St. Pauli Eintracht Braunschweig Monday, 05/03. 7.15pm: TSV 1860 Mnchen FC St. Pauli Monday, 12/03. 7.15pm: FC St. Pauli Karlsruher SC Sunday, 18/03. 12.30pm: FC Erzgebirge Aue FC St. Pauli Sunday, 25/03. 12.30pm: FC St. Pauli FC Energie Cottbus Please note that all fixtures are in UK time.

Its clear that there is everything to play for in the second half of the season, with the top two getting automatically promoted, and the third placed side facing a playoff against the 16th placed Bundesliga side. Eintracht Frankfurt have to face both Fortuna Dsseldorf and Paderborn in February, which could prove vital in the race for promotion. If St Pauli are going to be successful, then the run-in towards the end of the campaign will be vital. The final 7 games of the season include visits to Fortuna Dsseldorf, Greuther Furth and Dynamo Dresden, as well as a home match against Hansa Rostock, and finally will see us host fellow promotion challengers Paderborn - coincidentally Andre Schuberts previous side. If the attacking players can continue their excellent form going into the second half of the season, and the defence can be tightened with the return of the likes of Zambrano and Volz, I see no reason why we cant be back in the Bundesliga at the end of the season! Cheers, Scott

Streams
We had originally planned to show the Aachen game, however a few of us cant make the stream either because were attending the game, or have other commitments. So the streams we will be showing are below: Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday 12th 26th 18th 25th Feb v Bochum. Feb v Eintracht Braunschweig March v Aue March v Cottbus

All streams will start from 4.30pm. If there are any changes to the planned streams, these will be emailed to those on our newsletter list, and will also be posted on our twitter and facebook sites.

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Club Statement
The club released a statement on the incidents that occurred during the Schweinske Cup, which led to the event getting cancelled. The statement can be found here: http:// www.fcstpauli.com/magazin/artikel.php?artikel=10473 For the convenience of those who dont speak German, we have loosely translated the main points of this statement. Here is the translation of the opening statement: FC St. Pauli condemns any kind of violence; by whomever it is performed in the context of a football game. We also point out that the vast majority of St. Pauli fans are peaceful and against violence. But we do not close our eyes to the fact that in the context of FC St. Pauli there are a few exceptions Furthermore, here are the main points provided in the statement:

Lbeck fans were intent on causing trouble, wearing t-shirts with gang riot slogans and chanting gays, lesbians and Jewish children. Any action against the Lbeck fans from the police to stop these actions was non-existent. Journalists have reported that they heard Lbeck fans bragging about how easily they could bypass barriers and get to the St Pauli fans. This was reported to the police with no action taken seemingly taken to prevent this. After the first game, many fans headed to the toilets, where an incident occurred with St Pauli fans and Lbeck/HSV fans clashing. The statement questions why the supporters were not separated by a barrier, as is usually the case. This would have prevented the incident When the police arrived during this incident, they forced St Pauli fans back to the arena. One 20 year old fan was hit by police, and knocked unconscious. He was simply trying to use the toilet. He remained in hospital until late the next day. Fellow fans dragged him away from the police during their attack on the individual. After forcing St Pauli fans back into the stands, the police then came in heavy handed on our fans, using pepper-spray on innocent fans. Sven Brux, our security officer, witnessed this and was also hit by a police baton on the arm and sprayed with pepper-spray. After this, Lbeck/HSV fans were seen stealing banners (Ramba Zamba, Hinchas and Kein Mensch ist illegal) from the stands. Several St. Pauli fans climbed onto the stand where the flags were located, and attempted to use physical force to prevent theft and to protect other St. Pauli fans. Approximately 25 St Pauli fans then tried to get to the Lbeck fans to recover banners. This event stopped by police and security services. The police did nothing to prevent the theft nor did they attempt to reclaim the stolen items, despite obvious goading from the other set of fans. Why not? After this, a group of St Pauli fans had running clashes with the police. Again, innocent fans were hurt due to police tactics. The injured during these clashes included a 72 year old innocent man, who was sprayed heavily with tear gas. A member of the Supervisory Board of FC St. Pauli was also hit by several shots by the police. At no time were public announcements made. The club accepts that some of fans were involved in fighting in the later stages of the conflict that they condemn in no uncertain terms. The club however feels that the actions of our fans were brought on by the intention of the opposing fans, and the tactics of the police. The club rejects the notion that the actions of our fans are to blame if the tournament is cancelled in future.

Finally, the club asks the public to look at the evidence objectively and intelligently, rather than making premature assumptions.

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Question Time.
This month, our questions were put to former St Pauli player, and fan favourite, Ian Paul Joy... Were you aware of the cult status of St Pauli before you moved to Hamburg? When I first arrived into Germany I knew that St Pauli got 15,000 fans to each home game but found it extremely strange that a 3rd division team who were near the bottom of the table would be able to bring in such a crowd. When I was on trial at HSV my agent took me to a Pauli game and it just blew my mind what the hell was going on. I fell in love with the Millerntor from that moment on. After signing for HSV I would go watch most Pauli games as a team mate of mine and former Paulianer Stephan Hanke used to get me tickets to all the games and I'd go on my own. What was it like moving from HSV to St Pauli? Obviously I was fully aware of the rivalry at the time of my switch to St Pauli but the realisation that I was not going to get my shot at the HSV 1st team made the decision extremely easy and I didn't care what was going to be said of me for making that move. I was already passionate about St Pauli before I made the move from HSV so when my agent told me it was a possibility I It was a couldn't believe it. It was a dream of mine to play in a Pauli shirt in front dream of mine of those fans from the first time I stepped foot in the Millerntor to watch.
to play in a Pauli shirt in front of those

What was your favourite moment at St Pauli?

Its not easy to choose a moment as we had so much success during my 3 years at Pauli. Pokal Lauf (Cup Run) was fantastic and we almost made fans the final. Then there was the promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga which meant so much to the fans but I have to say that my one and only goal at the Millerntor vs Augsburg was my most memorable personal moment. Great goal and to celebrate in front of the Millerntor faithful was a dream come true and a feeling that very few ever get to experience. Do you ever get the opportunity to visit the Millerntor? I used to visit a lot the first 2 years after I left because my daughter was still living in Hamburg and going to the games used to be our thing to do. She loved going to the stadium and still asks now if we can go back. Unfortunately I have not been for over a year now. I have however made a promise to myself that I will grace the field one more time before I die wether it be a testimonial of friendly but I will play at the Millerntor one more time. Would you ever like to return to St Pauli in another role? Unless one of my best friends Jimmy Dinzey or Thomas Meggle become Head coach then I don't think I will consider a move back in a coaching role. The head coaching position at Pauli is one of the most sought after jobs in the whole of Germany and you have to be very passionate about St Pauli as a lifestyle to be successful there as a coach so I have all the attributes. Never say Never.

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You've had quite a colourful football career, playing at a variety of clubs. How did the move to Hamburg come about? I got extremely lucky but my determination got me the move to Germany! I was out of contract training with one of my very good friends Joey Jones at Wrexham when I got a call from a small time agent in Hamburg asking if I was interested in doing a trial in Germany. I was a big German football fan after seeing Paul Lambert do well at Dortmund and snapped his hand off. Within a week of that phone call I was in Hamburg on trial at Pauli's reserve team and they told me after my first day to go train with the first team. I did very well but coach Franz Gerber who was a very good man wanted me to come back for preseason after the winter break. I had 3-4 days in Hamburg left to kill and Thomas Doll who was then HSV amateur coach asked me to come train for 3 days so I did and within 48 hours I was offered an 18 month deal. Was it difficult leaving St Pauli to sign for Real Salt Lake? It was the hardest decision I ever made in my life and probably the most stupid decision I ever made. Don't get me wrong I loved my time at RSL and really loved the life but the only reason I moved from one of the most well known teams in world football was to save my marriage which fell apart within months of arriving in the US. I honestly think I would still be playing for Pauli today if I had not left at that time. On the other hand I have had an amazing time living and playing in the MLS and RSL is now a family to me. I work on the radio and have some good opportunities within the club to help them become the most successful team ever in MLS. I'm really excited about that. Not to mention that I met my now girlfriend Nichole in Utah so I take the positives and negatives from the whole situation. What are you doing now you have retired from football? I own a business in Saint Louis at the moment selling some pretty cool gadget Accessories and protection (check it out at www.zaggcart.com/win) Its something I really enjoy doing. Obviously completely different from living a pro footballers life but I needed it and I'm very good at it. I have been offered 2-3 very good coaching roles thus far in the States since I retired and I am determined to get back into football one day but only when the time is right and the job is perfect. Who was the best player you played with at St Pauli? Fabio Morena. El Capitano was the most consistent player I have ever played with and he was such a gentleman. All the players and staff look up to Fabio and I was no different. He was very good week in week out. Follow me on twitter - @JOYPAULIAN Yorkshire St Pauli would like to thank Ian for taking the time out of his busy schedule to answer our questions. FORZA!

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Why FC St. Pauli?

I first became aware of St. Pauli from a Gegen Rechts sticker on a drain-pipe at Finsbury Park Station in North London in the early nineties. I remember thinking how cool it was that there was an anti-fascist football club. I understood enough to know that this team played in Germany or Austria. Apart from that I knew bugger-all. I must have done some research or read an article about this strange club and found out that they were based in Hamburg but were minnows compared to SV Hamburg a reasonably wellknown club even in England. Of course as a Pompey fan SV meant only one thing Kevin bloody Keegan, who had eventually transferred to Scumpton after a successful time in Europe. The die was cast. A team who were the biggest rivals to a club that employed a Scummer. I liked FC St.Pauli even more! Years later (and I mean years later) I was on holiday in Venezuela when I met a very friendly pair of German travellers on a beach. It turned out that they hailed from Kiel. Where? Its near Hamburg. Straightaway I quizzed them about football and whether they had ever heard of a team called Saint Pooly. Much laughter and ridicule were followed by such words as punks, skinheads and anarchists and, frankly, I was hooked. We stayed in touch and a month or two later my fellow Portsmouth fan, Roger, and I were standing on the Gegengerade. Our first game at the Millerntor Stadium was against Fortuna Dsseldorf in 1999. I think it was a Friday night and Rog and I were convinced that we won 6-0 but the records show 5-1 the Fortuna keeper was sent off quite early and it was all terribly easy against a team who were actually relegated that night. But, in all honesty, our first visit to FCSP was not remarkable for the scoreline (mind you it was YEARS before we witnessed a second win and even longer for our hattrick of victories) but for the terrace experience. Watching a football match through a haze of marijuana smoke; showered with beer as every goal went in; the woman next to me who kept topping up my glass from the beers that kept arriving for her and her mates; the parade of fan-banners at halftime; a Yeti brass band who danced around the pitch and serenaded Andre Trulsen on his birthday; the fact that noone budged at the final whistle. But best of all the whole ground applauding the Fortuna fans and chanting their teams name to show solidarity at their relegation. An extraordinary night and Id been going to Football since the seventies! By then I must have got internet access and we found an English supporters site dedicated to FCSP. The guy who ran it was a Norwich City fan called Paul Box. I met him a couple of times nice bloke! Tragically, he passed away and ultimately so did his website despite our attempts to buy the domain name or, at least, have it transferred into his brother-in-laws name. I reckon we were without a point of communication for over a year but one New Years Day (very bored) I started investigating setting up message-boards and found ForumUp. By the end of the day we were back in business. With a bit of tweaking and fiddling I eventually got the layout as it is today, and believe me I am

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a total LUDDITE. What was lovely was the way that lots of fellow fans gravitated to the board met and set up their own clubs OstSchottland Broons, East River Pirates.......even those Yorkshire types. I dont include the Birmingham Boys In Brown who predated all of us and whose fundraising events, Brownstock, are legendary. In London we started to try and meet up to watch a few games. The first were a couple of cup matches shown at a Bavarian Beer Keller near Old Street. Most of us hated the place (ridiculously overpriced and, frankly, naff) and we found another bar for a few games before someone suggested this new German pub that had just opened up in Lambeth. I cant remember who first checked it out though Im fairly certain Tracey (AliceB) and Malcolm were in the vanguard, and before long there were a regular half-dozen or so sitting in a freezing bar on Sunday lunchtimes keeping Juergen (the manager) in business. Over the last four years the numbers have swelled and we have become a regular, and I like to think welcome fixture in the pub. Weve had fall-outs with the pub and have threatened to go elsewhere on a couple of occasions but this season, for instance, there are a

minimum of 20 regulars for every match (eating and drinking). Its a lovely mix and a great atmosphere. Quite a few ex-pat Germans (useful for translations.....Petra) and a plethora of supporters of home grown clubs Watford, Fulham, Celtic, Arsenal, Portsmouth, Yeovil and another half a dozen or so that havent sprung to mind (Torquay? Roter-Stern Leipzig? Just outside Torquay!!) In all honesty I think it fair to say that most of us dont go to watch FCSP for the quality of the football, and thats with no disrespect to the club or players. The Hamburg experience is special and away fixtures even more so. Anyone whos shared a fan-train to games will know what I mean. The players themselves always seem like honest professionals and Im fortunate to have seen the likes of Trulsen, Stanislawski and, currently, Fabian Boll ply their trade in Braun-Weiss. The latter is a bit special. Roger and I first saw him playing for the Amateurs and since then he has played (and scored) for the club in every division. Fabian Boll Fussball-Gott!!!!!!

Article by John Wadmore You can visit the St Pauli UK forum at http://stpaulifansuk.forumup.co.uk

St Pauli v Leverkusen at the Millerntor in 1991.

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Hamburg Rocks
No, it really does! Honest! And Im not talking about the Beatles stint in St Pauli! Hamburg has exerted a big influence on my music taste over the years, mainly due to the efforts of my friend, Os, who has been sending me tapes (remember those?!) since the early 90s. I just thought Id share with you some of my highlights. Of course, FC St Pauli and the music scene go hand in hand. And a great place for any fan to start exploring would be Slime, who set the German punk scene alight in the early 80s with provocative titles like their anti-Police rant from 1980 Wir wollen keine Bullenschweine and the epic Deutschland muss sterben (damit wir leben knnen) or Germany must die (so that we can live), an anti-nationalist response to the patriotic Germany must live, even if we have to die. Slime still exist to this day and their St Pauli connections remain strong. Anyway, back to my friend, Os, a St Pauli member, for it was he who introduced me to Hamburg on an all-night excursion from Oldenburg in Lower Saxony in the mid-90s. We took an evening train, with me cheekily using his flatmates bahncard, dreading an interrogation from a conductor who would certainly spot that my South Yorkshire German accent wouldnt fit with the name on the pass. Os took me on a whirlwind tour of HH by public transport (which was amazingly free with my friends friends bahncard!), but mainly concentrating on the delights of Altona, St Pauli and the Schanzenviertel, before we returned to Oldenburg in the middle of the night (faking deep sleep whenever the conductor appeared). The night is a bit of a blur, but I will never forget the infamous Hafenstrasse and going into what looked like someones front room, with graffiti on every wall, a turntable, some speakers and a few crates of Astra in a corner. A DIY bar! No offence to The Well, but can we have one of those in Leeds please?!! And then we visited the Golden Pudel Club, preferred hang-out of those in the know (Ive long since passed this stage!) and the stars of Hamburgs flourishing music scene, known as the Hamburger Schule, whose exponents mixed together punk, grunge, experimental pop and intelligent German lyrics. Those were exciting times in Hamburg. The first band to break through nationally (and even internationally with a German language release in the UK) was Blumfeld, an angular guitar band whose rhythms and incomprehensible metaphor-filled lyrics created an incredible intensity. Their highpoint was the album Ltat et Moi from 1994, including the anthem Draussen auf Kaution (Outside on bail) and the dancefloor smash Verstrker or Amplifier (well, it would be a smash on my own hypothetical dancefloor in my dreamworld graffiti-and-Astra-adorned Leeds DIY pub!). Blumfeld then took a major change in direction and turned to ballads(!!), but not before paving the way for some other great Hamburg bands to reach a national audience, including my own favourite Tocotronic (check out Digital ist besser from 1995 or Wir kommen um uns zu beschweren (Weve come to complain) from 1996. I have to also mention Die Sterne, who are capable of stunning punky pop one minute,

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then jazz funk the next. But if you take one thing away from this article, go find their video on Youtube for Wenn Dir St Pauli auf den Geist fllt (2002), a love-hate ode to the Kiez complete with its own totally random bagpipe solo. The video shows lead singer Frank Spilker riding around the Millerntor (Heiligengeistfeld.play on words) on a sit-on lawnmower, cutting the magical grass of the mystical FC St Pauli! If you think Im making all this up, the bagpipes, the lawnmower, etc, go check it out; its all true! And the video shows the wonderful creaky old Millerntor from every angle in all its glory! And that leads me neatly onto Tomte, whose lead singer Thees Uhlmann is a massive St Pauli fan. Purveyors of some of the best Indie music never to leave the German-speaking world, Tomtes high point was Buchstaben ber der Stadt (Letters above the city) from 2006, which was a massive hit across Germany, but Id prefer to direct you to Uhlmanns solo effort Das hier ist Fussball, a paean to his beloved

brown-whites. I wont insult the artist by badly translating the whole thing, but here are a few lines, roughly translated by my rusty brain:

Tragedy is like love without a happy end And if theres one thing for sure Its that St Pauli knows tragedy .. Bayern conquered, defeated in Chemnitz In your ears you can still hear the choirs My shoulder is wet from my fellow fans tears And I cant think of anything finer And hurray, hurray, hurray, FC St Pauli! If it were okay Id embrace you This is football, this is drama! Rob.

New Year/New Start

On Saturday 28th January, The Well hosts the New Year/New Start punk rock and indie all-day festival. Leeds own The Dauntless Elite (featuring one of our members!), who are celebrating the release of their fantastic second album, will headline, ably supported by the cream of the crop of the current UK DIY punk scene. From the indie-rock of Bedford Falls to the Sonic Youth-inspired noise of Saturday's Kids; from the street-punk anthems of Homebrew to the rock and roll swagger of Matadors, from the DC styled pop of Coal Train to the alt-country twang of Brown Hound James - the full breadth of the UK scene is covered. It's sure to be one hell of a day! For more info, visit: http://www.bombedout.com/nyns/