Dear reader, you rightly imagine the life of a sports journalist to be very exciting. Let me tell you: you have no idea at all. Anything can happen all the time, even on a Wednesday morning.
The computer has barely booted up when it hits. It used to be said at this point: the news hits like a bomb, but that is not appropriate from many points of view. Today, for example, messages arrive the way emails tend to arrive: in a pop-up window.
You can only be so free in Bavaria
What might have happened? The focus is sharpening, we are now in the middle of the wide world of press releases. Has Eintracht Frankfurt entered the coaching market? Does Leon Goretzka have to leave FC Bayern? Neither nor. What hits here on Wednesday morning at nine announces bigger, more important, more sustainable things: “Less traffic jams at TSV – 1860 Munich now parks without barriers,” says the headline.
Can that be true? Yes, it’s true, let’s read on. Barrier-free parking for the “lions”. That must be it, the Liberalitas Bavariae. She knows no boundaries. Sorry, no barriers.
They don’t get the permanent investor from the farm
Wait a minute. Aren’t these “lions” parked without barriers on the Giesinger Heights making themselves very comfortable? “Unauthorized long-term parking became a problem at TSV 1860 Munich,” writes the PR agency, whose request for publication we are happy to comply with given the explosive nature of the issue.
Yes, long-term parking is certainly the problem of the sixties. For example, they can’t get Hasan Ismaik, the long-term investor, from the court, although they would love to get rid of him. Basically, the park theme is an allegory for the club. TSV 1860 Munich is the long-term player among Germany’s football clubs. Year in and year out parked in league three – now still without barriers?
Is this supposed to sell limitless lack of ambition with the mane of a predator? Has the most quintessentially Bavarian of all clubs become the most un-Bavarian? Let’s read on: “Signs are provided throughout the site for orientation purposes.” Is this another press release or already a fable? Shouldn’t signs have served as a guide for the club long ago, at the latest when the celebrations for the 1966 championship came to an end?
It’s time for a Munich derby again. We can already hear the fans singing: No barriers, lots of signs, TSV.
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