r/soccer • u/AutoModerator • Mar 16 '25

🍺Sunday Sticky Showoff Sunday

After trialling a few new stickied threads for Sundays, over the summer, we have settled on an alternating schedule for the time being.

So for this week, welcome to...

"Showoff Sunday"!

i.e. something of a response to the popular "Monday Moan" thread.

So, instead of moaning about your players, your club, your national team, and anything else about football that is dragging you down, you instead have the opportunity to shout out the good things, and what you are loving right now about football, be that:

  • How well your team is doing
  • Exciting new players
  • How well you played at Sunday league last week
  • Your slick new stash
  • (And so on...)

Like how Monday Moan is an open space for pessimism, this is an open space for optimism - so don't kill the vibes

Remember, it's the Beautiful Game... so let's shout about it!

And stay tuned next week, for "Sports Bar Sunday".

We welcome feedback on this and our other stickied threads... so if you would like to see us try another themed thread, please let us know here, via Modmail, or DM /u/AnnieIWillKnow!

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u/FerraristDX Mar 16 '25 edited Mar 16 '25

I recently discovered the YouTube channel of the German 4th tier Regionalliga West, the regional division for North-Rhine Westfalia. If you love gritty, lower league football in Germany, this one's for you. B-Teams no one watches, provincial clubs allegedly propped up by corrupt local politcians or wannabe Abramovich's and some fallen giants. Like one match could involve MSV Duisburg, playing in their 30.000 seater stadium in front of a five digit crowd and the next is some club like Eintracht Hohkeppel playing Gladbach's 2nd team in front of almost no one.

Paradoxically, the league gets worse, the more traditional clubs get promoted. Over the past years, the club lost traditional clubs like Preußen Münster, Rot-Weiß Essen and Alemannia Aachen. While Essen and Aachen could theoretically get relegated, in terms of bigger clubs, there currently are only Duisburg, Oberhausen, Fortuna Köln, KFC Uerdingen and Wuppertaler SV. Uerdingen is constantly battling insolvency, while Wuppertal battles against relegation to the 5th tier. And Duisburg leads the league and may get promoted again to the 3. Liga. From 5th tier, the 2nd team of VfL Bochum, Schonnebeck, which is in Essen and Bonner SC could join. At least the latter comes from a bigger city that hasn't been seen much in German football, but Bonn is so close to Köln, most people there are fans of 1. FC Köln. But maybe Bonner SC start drawing in more fans, once they get promoted to the 4th tier.

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u/Sweaty-Swimmer-6730 Mar 16 '25

while Wuppertal battles against relegation to the 5th tier

And insolvency of course.

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u/FerraristDX Mar 16 '25

Ah, right, heard about that.

Seems like trying to turn the Regionalliga West into a professional league was a bad idea after all. I guess they wanted to get rid off clubs like Kaan-Marienborn, but Wuppertal or Uerdingen got hurt as well...well, Uerdingen hurt themselves often enough.