HAMBURGER SV and 1. FC Köln are on a promotion zone six game days before the end of the second division season. The two traditional clubs have been secretly, quietly and quiet – a little surprising – gained an excellent starting point in front of the league end sprint.
“In the case of the Hamburg descent, Schalke buys the stadium clock and calls it ‘time without shell'”. The ridicule of football fans was great in summer 2018 when Hamburger SV had to go into the second division after 55 years in the first Bundesliga. Since then, the red pants have played there and meet other large traditional clubs every week – such as FC Schalke 04. Back then, almost seven years ago, the men from the Ruhr area were once again ungrateful at the end of the season. The coveted bowl had been narrowly missed. Since 1958, the royal blue have been waiting for the new championship title.
Seven years ago, it was not even to be seen in the way what a quick decline of the S04 would have to be experienced. In 2018, the Hamburgers and Schalke worlds separated. At the moment, the club from Gelsenkirchen would like to exchange with the HSV. Because now the men from the Hanseatic city stand in front of the Schalkern and could soon reactivate the clock, which showed the duration of the league affiliation at the time. After the descent after exactly 54 years, 261 days, 36 minutes and 2 seconds in the first division, it was dismantled. On Schalke, of course, she never came up with, and the royal blues currently have completely different worries than thinking about winning the German championship.
At HSV it is surprisingly quiet
The Hamburgers have expanded their place in the sun in the second division secretly, quietly and quietly in the past few weeks. Six points ahead of third and fourth place and a significantly better goal difference than the competition should actually be enough six game days before the end to finally get the first class for so long in the footballing diaspora after seven cloudy years. But in Hamburg you are now used to grief and so the possible return to the Beletage runs surprisingly quietly and reserved up to the present time.
In the shadow of the hustle and bustle of the departure of Bayern veteran Thomas Müller you have heard relatively little from the Hanseatic city in football Germany. The ascent would actually be quite unexpected in the darn seventh year. Especially the moment the German football fans had almost got used to the unsuccessful attempts at Hamburg, the HSV also surprises the experts after Steffen Baumgart’s change of coaching to Merlin Polzin in the early winter of last year. When Polzin took over after the 13th matchday, the Hamburgers were in 8th place in the table. Now the return to the first division is no longer far away.
But not only the HSV plays a very solid season, but also another large traditional club has been able to surprise. Despite the defeat at home against Hertha at home against Hertha, the 1st FC Köln is in second place after the 28th matchday – and is at least four points ahead of third place. Since the Cologne team threatened to sink into the chaos in the club after a sobering descent to sink the temporary transfer lock and quarrels in the club, the course of the season so far can be described as a complete success. Because even a large part of their own fans had feared the worst before the season.
Müller still never plays against HSV again
All of this did not occur after a somewhat bumpy start. Instead, the Cologne residents have been in the upper third of the table for a long time. And so the dream of returning to the first division is very realistic for FC fans. Football Germany can therefore look forward to the comeback of two traditional clubs in the Bundesliga for the coming season.
Incidentally, the stadium clock of the HSV was supposed to come to the Ruhr area some time ago. Not to Gelsenkirchen, but to Dortmund. Here, however, not to the Borussia domestic, but to the German Football Museum. They would have loved to take the good piece – but it was much too big. Perhaps now there is the opportunity to reinstall the clock in the Volksparkstadion. For the next 55 years in the Bundesliga. Then, as usual, loudly and with a lot of time. Because at the moment it is almost a little too quiet to become the old traditional clubs. But a Thomas Müller doesn’t end his career at FC Bayern Munich every day.
