Germany's home games

[sean]

On a website for Liverpool FC.

 

 

Who the f*** are you?

[aka Dus]

Sean, the DFB will continue to rotate games after the WC. Looking at it logically, the game is 2 weeks before Oktoberfest begins. This may or may not be a factor but my guess is that they will have it somewhere up North - as they will probably play in Munich/Leipzig/Stuttgart versus the Czechies and Slovies. Logistical/Geographic reasons even though the largest Irish contingent is in Munich.

 

If I had to say, I would pick Dortmund or Gelsenkirchen. It's a Saturday game, they know they'll fill it.

 

It's pot luck so I would hold off until you get more news. If you come across dirt cheap flights with Air Berlin, German Wings, Ryanair etc book it, otherwise you're already talking big bucks.

 

 

 

The good news is that Aer Lingus are now gone Ryanair. I will quote someone else about his efforts with AL yesterday after he heard the draw:

 

As soon as the fixtures were announced yesterday I went

in and tried to book a flight to Munich,all all flights to Munich

were ?219 from Thursday to Saturday and a total of ?495.

So I tried every other German city,Berlin,Frankfurt and Dusseldorf

and all return flights to these cities were either ?475 or ?495 return

travelling from Thursday to Sunday.There not stupid Aer Lingus,

as the venue hadn't been announced they decided to cover

themselves and put the price up to all German cities.What I couldn't

believe was the speed in which the prices changed on their website.

They probably sent a guy to Frankfurt to dial in to their mainframe

and change the prices as soon as the fixtures were announced.

[sean]

I think I'll book Frankfurt today. Fairly central so not much more than 2 and a half hours by train to basically anywhere else.

[wacko]

Sean, the DFB will continue to rotate games after the WC. Looking at it logically, the game is 2 weeks before Oktoberfest begins. This may or may not be a factor but my guess is that they will have it somewhere up North - as they will probably play in Munich/Leipzig/Stuttgart versus the Czechies and Slovies. Logistical/Geographic reasons even though the largest Irish contingent is in Munich.

 

If I had to say, I would pick Dortmund or Gelsenkirchen. It's a Saturday game, they know they'll fill it.

 

It's pot luck so I would hold off until you get more news. If you come across dirt cheap flights with Air Berlin, German Wings, Ryanair etc book it, otherwise you're already talking big bucks.

The good news is that Aer Lingus are now gone Ryanair. I will quote someone else about his efforts with AL yesterday after he heard the draw:

 

As soon as the fixtures were announced yesterday I went

in and tried to book a flight to Munich,all all flights to Munich

were ?219 from Thursday to Saturday and a total of ?495.

So I tried every other German city,Berlin,Frankfurt and Dusseldorf

and all return flights to these cities were either ?475 or ?495 return

travelling from Thursday to Sunday.There not stupid Aer Lingus,

as the venue hadn't been announced they decided to cover

themselves and put the price up to all German cities.What I couldn't

believe was the speed in which the prices changed on their website.

They probably sent a guy to Frankfurt to dial in to their mainframe

and change the prices as soon as the fixtures were announced.

But the Germany vs England game on 1st Sep 2001 was in Munich a matter of days before the Oktoberfest.