That's an interesting Pokal draw, Bayern at a pub team, BvB get Union again, effzeh v löl04, scheissrb v Hoppenheim plastico, Gladbach/Leverkusen and Freiburg get to go to Kiel lol
I like that Mariano came back, but giving him the '7' seems like a dig at Cristiano tbh. That and Ramos campaigning for Modric to win the Ballon d'Or too haha
So as usual when I'm over in Germany I'll buy 11 Freunde and as it's the right time of year I also bought the kicker sonderheft, 11 Freunde did a similar season preview with the ding on the front page, but the ding had Bayern written in for all future years until they ran out of room, which is funny and I get, except for the last year of 2025/26 where they put in HSV, which confused me completely
I used to buy the Kicker Sonderheft every season since I was a kid. The last one I bought was 2012, I think, though. I haven't bought one since and don't plan to ever again.
For the last few years that I bought it, it was really more out of inertia than anything else. I mean, I did put the Stecktabelle up on my wall still, but that was just about the only thing I used that thing for. All the articles in it were outdated by the time it reached the stores. Squads weren't finalized, etc.
I mean, it had been like that always, but there was also no alternative, as print was the only way to get your information. In our age, though, print is dead. You can get minutes-old information at the click of a button.
And paying (what is it these days?) 7 Euros for a ****ing Stecktabelle? Thanks but no thanks.
That's a legitimate point. But for me, even though the first year not buying it felt weird a bit, I absolutely made the right call not buying it any more.
