Final Friday, St. Pauli narrowly misplaced 2-1 to Borussia Dortmund at Sign Iduna Park. From a sporting viewpoint, many touring away followers may maintain their heads up excessive as they made the journey again north through bus, practice, or automobile. 

Nevertheless, as reported by Kicker, the membership has since come beneath criticism from its fanbase as soon as it had emerged that the workforce traveled by airplane to Dortmund. 

Membership Ideas 

Sustainability is an integral a part of St. Pauli’s tradition with a lot of their followers holding themselves to the identical requirements. 

Nevertheless, when Dortmund Airport posted a photograph of the St. Pauli workforce arriving through airplane on Friday, it brought about outrage amongst followers. 

The journey from Hamburg to Dortmund is somewhat over 300km, which might normally take round 3 hours to finish. 

Many followers believed it was pointless to get a airplane for such a brief journey as a substitute of taking a extra economical route through the workforce bus or practice the day earlier than. 

St. Pauli’s Reasoning 

The membership had already communicated through their web site that the membership could be making the journey to Dortmund through airplane. 

The primary purpose being that worldwide gamers solely returned from worldwide duties on Wednesday and Thursday. For instance, Australian Jackson Irvine solely returned to the coaching floor on Thursday. 

Moreover, resulting from a public vacation in Hamburg, the membership defined that visitors could be too heavy to reach in Dortmund on time. What’s extra, there was a scarcity of trains over the vacation weekend. 

Nevertheless, followers have been fast to level out that regardless of visitors, the workforce bus had made the journey to Dortmund Airport to fulfill the workforce as they landed. 

St. Pauli are a membership of morals and their followers is not going to let the membership neglect that, whatever the league they’re enjoying in. 

GGFN | Jamie Allen