Tag: Borussia Dortmund

Borussia Dortmund players attempt to get fans drunk enough to forget how terrible they are

"Please stop telling me how awful I am and just take the beer, sir." (BVB.de)
“Please stop telling me how awful I am and just take the beer, sir.” (BVB.de)

Sitting at the very bottom of the Bundesliga table and getting made fun of by rival clubs on Twitter, Borussia Dortmund held their annual Christmas party with 1,000 fan club representatives on Tuesday. And in an attempt to smooth things over with their guests, several players served up beer in the hopes that they would be less angry about the club’s predicament drunk than sober.

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Football club holiday apparel that will make your eyes bleed

Louis van Gaal poses with Man United’s defenders. 

Black Friday has claimed a fresh batch of souls, which means the holiday season has arrived. Never ones to sit out a shameless cash grab, football clubs have upped their seasonal merchandising efforts in order to ensure that they can make all the inevitably disappointing signings they want during the January transfer window. And the resulting apparel looks like gunk vomited up by an elf who mixed egg nog with gingerbread meth. Which is good news for us.

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