hope and frustration

Since the frustration of the lost lines due to the strange blog-publishing-behaviour has passed quite much time. I am looking forward to the next week – holidays. Don’t exactly know why, but we have no lectures in the next week after the Pentecost-weekend. Surely I’m glad about that fact, but I still do not know what to do. In fact I have to do various stuff for FH, but it won’t take me all ten days for sure.

The league championship has come to a quite thrilling stage right now. Kapfenberg is our very last opponent for the promotion to the Bundesliga. They are five points behind us, only four games left. The first of those four will take place tomorrow in Ried, opponent will be Leoben. Before the last game, the Styrians have been something like a feared opponent, but after the away win about one month ago, this status has fortunately changed to our side. I expect a nearly sold out Fill Metallbau Stadion tomorrow, maybe something around 7000 spectators and an important win. We cannot allow slipping, because Kapfenberg will exploit every mistake of our team. The very last game this season will take place in Kapfenberg, so we’re all hoping that the margin by then will be something more than three points.

We all have bad experiences with games of fate, since our relegation in 2003 descends from a 0-3 home loss against Admira Wacker Mödling in the very last game. One point would have been enough, but our team was paralyzed, nearly dead. It’s a fact that we had lost the last eight games that season, so the relegation was quite deserved. The more deserved would be a promotion this season. We’re the big ones in our league, have the most spectators and the best infrastructure and management. Last season we had been voted as the “best led professional Austrian football team” (the vote was taken by the labour union of footballers).

What else can I tell you? My second favourite football team, Manchester United, has been taken over by American billionaire Malcolm Glazer this afternoon. He now owns 56% of the club’s market shares and therefore has to state a bid for a takeover. The fans and the CEO David Gill are furious about this fact, because the American's destination is to ruin the club. He already owns the American football team called Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the first thing he did back then was to raise the entry fees. The second step was to stop activities of transfers and recruitments in order to weaken the team and raise his income. If he did the same things at Manchester, this would surely be a catastrophe. The international position would be enormously shocked, teams like Chelsea, Milan or Barcelona would be on top for the next years, leaving United back in mid-class.

Last thing for today – spring has come back, sunshine and about 20 C° today. Right now I am looking forward to going running, after the end of the Ice hockey match between Canada and the Slovak Republic.