Forbidden Cities: The Story of the Revierderby
By: Jan | September 13th, 2008Right in time for the biggest derby in Germany: a 25 minute documentary to help you brush up on your Schalke and Borussia Dortmund knowledge. The documentary was filmed before, during and after the infamous 2006/2007 derby, which Dortmund won 2-0 to crush Schalke’s title dreams. Two seasons later emotions have cooled down a bit, and today’s edition will focus on the teams’ new coaches Jürgen Klopp and Fred Rutten and how they cope with their first Revierderby.
Notice how I decorated the video-player’s interface in Schalke and Dortmund colors.
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The Forbidden City! All along, the Forbidden City I know is the one in China. I had always believed in learning something new each day and so I can take that.
Anyhow Jan, thanks for this. Definitely very, very informative. Yes, I did remembered about the 2006/07 season. Special to me in a way given after all, it was the first Bundesliga season I followed after the World Cup. And whenever I think back how I first came to know the club I eventually support in the Bundesliga in the form of VfB Stuttgart, it always goes back to the final matchday of the 2006/07 season.
Stuttgart came out of nowhere to clinch the title. And they did it at the expense of Dortmund beating Schalke on derby day. I have to admit, the final matchday was when I first really took notice of Stuttgart. But apart from that, one of those things which always blow my mind away when it comes to the Bundesliga, it’s the fan support both Schalke and Borussia Dortmund has. It always does. Really.
‘Notice how I decorated the video-player’s interface in Schalke and Dortmund colors.’
Very nice. And Jens Lehmann…looks different in those archive footages. Don’t ask me why I said that.
I had read about his goal against Dortmund (when he was still at Schalke) and now I finally get to see through one of those archive footages being shown.Posted from
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“All along, the Forbidden City I know is the one in China.”
Now you know two more in Germany, although there can only be one at a time and really only when you are a Dortmund or a Schalke fan. Since your allegiances lie with other clubs, the Forbidden City in China remains your only Forbidden City. As a Stuttgart supporter you may consider Karlsruhe as a potential candidate.
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Thank you, Jan. Ah, now in regards to that derby this Sunday…
But coming back to the Forbidden City I had knew all along until the ITV documentary you posted here, it only kind of came into prominence when I was in secondary school - studying History. There was also those period dramas I grew up watching on TV (back then, I always get fascinated with how China is like in ancient times and so I suppose my love for history began without me knowing) though I don’t remember much until secondary school came along. Up till now, I still regret not watching a documentary on the Forbidden City I had always knew given it was aired on TV here some weeks back. Never gotten around watching it. Before I really became a football fan, I was a history buff. Still kind of now.
I must be like the only one in the family who can combine those two together (football and history, that is). My father had never really like to study history back in his schooldays and so I ended up becoming his ‘history teacher’. Apart from me cannot hide away the fact that art is actually my ‘first love’ in life (my first-ever hobby was drawing and I picked that up around kindergarten) and still is. Only God knows why I always rattle off what I know back in class if my father asked me something on what I studied back in school. Given the majority of my former teachers will always tell my parents something like this - ‘Diana is always very quiet in class’.
I don’t know, maybe given among my friends, I am the only one who studied History back in secondary school (they all studied Geography). While they can discuss on what they had studied, I have to find my own way out. They even once asked me how do I remembered all those stuff from the textbook.
But then given I had always like to read, I remembered what my former History teacher used to say in class on something like we can treat our textbook like we are reading a story book (given the events all happened in the past). Double bonus for me.
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