Cottbus

And we'll probably get to that as well during the podcast because we've got two very difficult games coming up in quick succession.

And, like, three quite difficult games really given our history or the lack of love from East German clubs towards us so we've got two really challenging fixtures Kaiserslautern who are doing really well and their third then Wolfsburg who everyone expected to storm the league and obviously had taken a high profile signing from us who were fourth And then we're away at NB Cottbus, which who are doing actually doing all right as well because they're 10th, you know, which is far higher than most people predicted for them.

So well done to them.

But, you know, it's like I've been to Cottbus many times to watch football.

I'm with my work and it's a tough place.

Yes.

could you allude to that a little bit more Mark because I'm sure I hope I get this right but years ago now I think Kieran friend of the show I think Kieran Ball went there with a couple of pals I couldn't make it Woodsy couldn't make it so a few others went for their first time and I think he said it was just like horrendous but what makes it horrendous what makes it that type of experience

suppose whole town or something is that yeah

Berlin was not a fortress in the sense Dresden was a fortress, it was a capital with gates, a garrison that was small when the field armies were elsewhere, and a population that had lived for four years on the news of battles it did not see.

In the first days of October 1760, a Russian corps under Gottlieb Heinrich Totleben came up to the Cottbus gate, and demanded the city.

The commandant, Hans Friedrich von Rocco, refused.

A night attempt on the gates failed.

In Khodov, it was like, before covid and then covid hit us so we were just getting started yeah and then it was a bit difficult for us to like to book shows and stuff because we we were not able to we weren't able to play so many shows and to like to show your music other people and to get it promoted and But I think this year it happened or it will happen.

We play our first show in Leipzig, in Dessau and in Cottbus.

It's going to be interesting.

And on Friday we are going to play in Pilsen.

Lok Leipzig, Lokomotive Leipzig, who are a traditionally strong lower league club in Germany, have won the North East Regionalliga three times in the last seven years and in back-to-back seasons.

Energy Cottbus won it in 2023, and Dynamo Berlin won it in 2022.

They've got one thing in common.

[laughs]

Liga on a, on a three-year basis.

Yeah.

Unfortunately for Lok Leipzig, Cottbus and, and Dynamo Berlin, they've all missed out [laughs] on it.

But yeah, I mean, how ridiculous is that?