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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barry Glendenning

What do St Pauli and this tea-timely email have in common?

St Pauli fans get their skull and crossbones on.
St Pauli fans get their skull and crossbones on. Photograph: Fabian Bimmer/EPA

OVER AND OUT

Where Big Website goes, other wishy-washy, left-leaning hipster havens naturally follow, so it came as no surprise that following Wednesday’s announcement that we would no longer be posting content on the particular Social Media Abomination that known as TwiXer from official accounts, one of Europe’s most right-on football clubs duly followed suit. A traditionally left-wing outfit that was founded in 1899, St Pauli play their football near Hamburg’s Reeperbahn and are famous for their iconic skull and crossbones logo. They were the first Bundesliga club to sign a black player, the first to officially ban right-wing nationalist activities at their games and almost certainly the first purported socialists to charge an eye-watering €37 for a snow shovel in their official club shop.

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