Football: Football fans: Stay stable against the AfD!

I don’t know what you do when things get unbearable in Berlin and the surrounding area in January. In any case, I feel like sun in Berlin winter. In this respect, you shouldn’t be surprised if I tell you a little about Arrecife. UD Lanzarote is the name of the capital club of the island of the same name. Solid fifth league, nice stadium with very large stands, where people gathered for the midday kick on the occasion of my visit. The opponent comes from the island of Gran Canaria, the stadium is located on Calle Argentina 57. As a reminder of Maradona, seven of his compatriots play at UD to the delight of almost 500 fans. There is also a group of ultras who every now and then belt out a song. The hottest part of the kick, however, was clearly the impressive beer bellies of the English hopper tourists.

Traveller, if you come to Lanzarote, go to the stadium immediately. There is beer at reasonable prices, and the older English male fans are at least as interesting as the monkeys on the monkey rock near Gibraltar. Hey! Anyone who thinks this is a subtle insult must be reprimanded immediately. When it comes to self-confidence, you can only learn from the English gentlemen in their 60s. These Mister UNIVERSUMERS showed their bodies in all their glory. Is this the spirit of the British Empire, when Great Britain colonized half the world with murder and manslaughter?

I think so, even if their bellies weren’t wrapped in Union Jacks, but in Liverpool FC, Manchester City, Manchester United and Aston Villa jerseys. Liverpool was clearly in the majority, London was hardly visible, a little West Ham every now and then, Arsenal flashed bashfully and suddenly three stately bellies in the colors of Coventry City.

Pure reason must never win. That’s why the mascot of the blue and red home club appeared shortly before the start of the game. It was colleague Spiderman with a big belly. What a pudding bummer. I admired the consistency of the club owners! What better way to thank the tourist conquerors of today than like this? How subtle! The good old spider man. Every musty children’s room in the world is his home. Every beer biker loves it, every German mother gets wet in her eyes because it reminds her of the good times her Hosenmatz had when he wasn’t yet thinking about the deportation of all dissidents to Lanzarote, for example, in the red and blue colors of the AfD. Yes, dear ones, it’s time for a little drama.

2024 is off to a crappy start, with wars and conflicts dominating the news. Trump is crawling meter by meter out of the abyssal pits of Mordor, in Argentina a radical madman is wandering in the presidential palace. Young climate activists are criminalized by the Greens in the power pool and ignorant farmers are flattered.

In 2024 there will be three elections in East Germany. Think carefully about which country you want to live in in the future. By the beard of Spiderman: Stay stable, there should not be any federal state in which a right-wing radical party like the AfD is in charge. Should be.