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Sheepskin-wearing seating bores get my goat | Harry Pearson
guardian.co.uk May 05 2011 18:39
A trip to Cologne's RheinEnergieStadion told me all I need to know about British football's crouch-and-move seating strategyEarlier this year I realised a long cherished ambition: to go to the RheinEnergieStadion in Cologne and see Hennes the Billy Goat. Hennes is the mascot of FC Köln and on Saturday afternoons is paraded along the touchline before the game alongside gaudily clad local carnival nobility while 50,000 fans sing a song about how much they adore Köln to the tune of The Bonny, Bonny Banks of Loch Lomond. The anthem is plainly on the sugary side because the man standing next to me, on discovering I was English, remarked: "It is good you cannot understand German, otherwise listening to this you would probably vomit."As if all this were not exciting