Football
Football in Germany is hugely popular, but unlike in England you can expect to see a top flight game for a reasonable price. Compare a middling Premiership team like Middlesbrough, whose cheapest league day ticket is about 45 euros, to a middling Bundesliga team like Mainz, whose cheapest seat is 15 euros, and which also has even cheaper tickets with standing room only. This says a lot about the different attitudes to the sport between the two countries: in Germany it is still seen as very much a people's game, played for the people. In England it is nothing but big business where profit is all.In Germany the two biggest teams by far are the reds of Bayern Munich and the blues of Schalke. Schalke are based in the massive Ruhrgebeit region in the North West, and Bayern are of course in Bavaria, but their fan base pervades the entire country. This means that pretty much every game...



























