UK St Pauli fans team @ Worldnet fans tourny Leeds July '09

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Many members of Republica are St. Pauli supporters. We've travelled to Hamburg on various occasions to experience the great atmosphere of St. Pauli matches & after-match parties! Of course we've also taken part in their famous AntiRa tournament every year since it started in 2004.

Eight Republica members recently made up half of the UK St. Pauli supporters' squad at Worldnet, a weekend tournament held here in Leeds every July, which brings together supporters' teams of 80 English & Scottish clubs and the odd overseas team too, playing on 10 university pitches at Bodington Hall. We were in the 16-team veterans event.

This was the very first time this team had even existed, but we were voted "Team of the Tournament 2009" by our peers, match officials, etc. That's out of all 80 teams, not just the 16 veterans ! Well done everyone who took part, you should be proud! I'd like to think that much of the reason for that particular triumph was due to us publicising St Pauli's proud anti-discrimination stance on the tournament's website & in the tournament programme, as well as the fact that we were the only really MIXED team in the tournament. We also had indisputably the best banners, flags, stickers and penants as well as possibly some of the most ...errm .... unique singing at the tournament !!

Thanks also to at least 5 other Republica members who came along to support !

Aologies to Dave L and Lee that we never took a photo before you left, and of course we weren't the same team without you ! While you were there we lost narrowly to eventual finalists Leicester and drew with Southampton, but after you left we crumpled against Birmingham, before rallying the next morning, when we should have beaten Fulham in the first knock-out match.



A longer report will follow soon.

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Here we are before a match with the Birmingham vets.

Some of you may rememner Urbs, the Portsmouth/St. Pauli fan, reclining languidly bottom right in the photo, from Cullompton '07, where he was goalie for the St. Pauli team some of us played for back then.




Here I am corrupting the Fulham captain before kick off at 9am on Sunday



It was a long walk from the bar with those pints, so where to carry that pesky football gear ?



We did give every team a bottle of Astra (St. Pauli's local brew and erstwhile shirt sponsor ) with a penant before kick off.... but Anthony wasn't happy when English pisswater (i.e. Carlsberg) was masquerading as Reinheitsgebot for some of the photo opportunities.



Some of the Leeds contingent preparing with an appropriate degree of professionalism before our unlucky knock-out by Fulham.




Arsenal Nigeria veterans were in the other group on our pitch too, and were often awestruck by some novel St. Pauli tactics:

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Next year's Worldnet supporters' tournament will take place in Leeds July 24th-25th 2010, and the UK St. Pauli squad will be preparing for it on the "General" forum at

http://stpaulifansuk.forumup.co.uk/

Keep in touch with UK St. Pauli fans and of course with St. Pauli's progress in Bundesliga 2

(YES THEY ARE TOP ON GOAL DIFFERENCE AFTER 2 GAMES )

by registering on there.

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Just felt like posting the current league table somewhere while we're still top of the German equivalent of 'the championship'. Best start st. pauli have ever made to a season in BL1 or BL2, and 3 away wins in a row (as many away wins already as in the whole of last season !)
PL W L D GFGAGD Pts
1 FC St. Pauli 5 4 1 0 16 5 11 13
2 FC Union Berlin 5 4 1 0 11 5 6 13
3 FC Kaiserslautern 5 3 2 0 8 3 5 11
4 SC Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 5 3 1 1 7 5 2 10
5 DSC Arminia Bielefeld 5 3 0 2 12 8 4 9
6 MSV Duisburg 5 2 2 1 10 9 1 8
7 TSV 1860 München 5 2 1 2 7 6 1 7
8 FC Energie Cottbus 5 2 1 2 10 10 0 7
9 Fortuna Düsseldorf 5 2 1 2 5 5 0 7
10 Karlsruher SC 5 2 1 2 8 10 -2 7
11 SpVgg. Greuther Fürth 5 2 0 3 11 10 1 6
12 FC Augsburg 5 1 3 1 7 8 -1 6
13 F.C. Hansa Rostock 5 2 0 3 5 8 -3 6
14 SC Paderborn 07 5 1 2 2 6 8 -2 5
15 Alemannia Aachen 5 1 2 2 5 8 -3 5
16 TuS Koblenz 5 1 0 4 4 9 -5 3
17 Rot Weiss Ahlen 5 0 1 4 1 7 -6 1
18 FSV Frankfurt 1899 5 0 1 4 3 12 -9 1

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Just felt like posting the current league table somewhere while St. Pauli are still top of the German equivalent of 'the championship'. Best start they've ever made to a season in BL1 or BL2, and 3 away wins in a row is unheard of (as many away wins already as in the whole of last season !)



1 FC St. Pauli 5 4 1 0 16 5 13
2 FC Union Berlin 5 4 1 0 11 5 13
3 FC Kaiserslautern 5 3 2 0 8 3 11
4 SC Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 5 3 1 1 7 5 10
5 DSC Arminia Bielefeld 5 3 0 2 12 8 9
6 MSV Duisburg 5 2 2 1 10 9 8
7 TSV 1860 München 5 2 1 2 7 6 7
8 FC Energie Cottbus 5 2 1 2 10 10 7
9 Fortuna Düsseldorf 5 2 1 2 5 5 7
10 Karlsruher SC 5 2 1 2 8 10 7
11 SpVgg. Greuther Fürth 5 2 0 3 11 10 6
12 FC Augsburg 5 1 3 1 7 8 6
13 F.C. Hansa Rostock 5 2 0 3 5 8 6
14 SC Paderborn 07 5 1 2 2 6 8 5
15 Alemannia Aachen 5 1 2 2 5 8 5
16 TuS Koblenz 5 1 0 4 4 9 3
17 Rot Weiss Ahlen 5 0 1 4 1 7 1
18 FSV Frankfurt 1899 5 0 1 4 3 12 1