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| View attachment 342567 It was in the mid-1980s that St. Pauli's transition from a traditional club into a "Kult" club began. The club was also able to turn the location of its ground in the dock area part of town, near Hamburg's famous Reeperbahn — centre of the city's night life and its red-light district — to its advantage. An alternative fan scene emerged, built around left-leaning politics, social activism and the event and party atmosphere of the club's matches. Supporters adopted the skull and crossbones as their own unofficial emblem. St. Pauli became the first team in Germany to officially ban right-wing nationalist activities and displays in its stadium in an era when fascist-inspired football hooliganism threatened the game across Europe. In 1981, the team was averaging crowds of only 1,600 spectators: by the late 1990s they were frequently selling out their entire 20,000-capacity ground. The Skull and Crossbones symbol had always been associated with St Pauli in one way or another. Hamburg fostered the most famous pirate of Germany Klaus Störtebeker and the symbol had been used by the house occupants at Hafenstrasse, but the one who should be credited with finally bringing the symbol to the terraces is probably Doc Mabuse, the singer of a Hamburg punk band. As the legend tells, he first grabbed the flag from a stall while passing drunk through the Dom on his way to the Millerntor-Stadion. In the early 1990s, the media in Germany recognized the Kult-image of the club, focusing on the punk part of the fan-base in TV broadcasts of the matches. By this time, the media also started to establish nicknames like "Freibeuter der Liga" ("Buccaneers of the League"") as well as "das Freudenhaus der Liga" ("Brothel of the League", literally "House of Joy"). St. Pauli moved in and out of the Bundesliga over the course of the next dozen years: The club were narrowly relegated to the Oberliga in the 1984–85 season, but won the 1985–86 championship and returned to 2. Bundesliga. Two increasingly strong years followed, resulting in promotion and three seasons in 1. Bundesliga, during 1988–91. Four seasons followed in 2. Bundesliga, and then another two in 1. Bundesliga 1995–97, before returning to 2. Bundesliga. Hi guys and welcome to a new story I'm doing. St. Pauli is a club that recently caught my eye whilst playing, and I got heavily caught up in their history and the culture of the St. Pauli area of Hamburg. Unlike my other stories, this is just a simple save. No ulterior motives. Just me having fun on a save and bringing success in anyway necessary. I really hope you enjoy the new format that I'm trying. I'm using the Sports Interactive 14.3.0 database with a host of different countries active. Predicted: 7th Season Expectations: Top Half Finish Transfer Budget: £549k Wage Budget: £222k Wage Budget Remaining: £17.44k p/w View attachment 342565 A club with a big history, as you can see. A massive stadium considering we're only in the 2. Bundesliga. That loan debt is worrying as I hate it when my club is in dept but a few solid seasons and we should easily be able to repay that as St. Pauli regularly fill their stadium as they have fantastic fans as seen in the earlier extract from Wikipedia. View attachment 342564 Room to improve here. But unlike with past saves where I try and get the youth set-up upgraded as quick as possible, I won't be doing so here. I want to save the funds up for now and create a steady profit over the course of the year. If/when we get promoted to the Bundesliga, I will be looking to upgrade them, but not for now. The club has no active parent or feeder clubs. The squad itself is quite a young one! With only four senior team players at age 30 or above. There's a few players here with very good potential here too. Here's the guys you need to watch out for. Fin Bartels - AMR View attachment 342562 Sadly he's on his way to Werder Bremen at the end of the season, but hopefully he'll go out in a blaze of glory and have his best season of his career. Tom Trybull - CM View attachment 342561 A player who's really good, with the potential to be even better. He could be a key player for us. Marc Rzatkowski - AMC View attachment 342559 A good player with room to improve. Still has time to develop. And here's the rest of the squad (One player is missing but he's a two star goalie so I left him out for the sake of having to do screenshots just to add one more player). View attachment 342558 Really looking forward to this. Feedback is welcome and very appreciated. The first update will be the pre-season and transfers. |
