Frankfurt 3 v Wolfsburg 0 and/or 1

I went to my first German football match last week.

So now I'm a Frankfurt fan.  That seemed the most sensible option.  Approximately 40,000 of the people were Frankfurt fans, with just one miserable sliver of Wolfsburg green nestled in the far corner of the stadium.  Best to stick with the majority, especially when the majority of the majority are drunk, even if they are cheerfully drunk.

And polite.  It's nice for English-tuned ears to hear loud German crowds chanting in entirely non-sinister settings, and the interactions between the announcer and crowd typically went something like this one when Gekas scored:
- Theofanis...
-- GEKAS!
- Frankfurt...
-- THREE!
- Wolfsburg...
-- NIL!
- Thank you!
-- YOU'RE WELCOME!

So they can be polite, even if they'd elbow you out of the way in a queue.  I was impressed that everyone knew, seemingly instinctively, what to shout back.  Although there were suggestions of revisionist history whenever they all stuck stoically to 'nil' for Wolfsburg, even after they had scored.  I didn't approve of that.

But I suppose it shouldn't be surprising, given that their common word for 'history' is the same as for 'story' (Geschichte), and the word that means 'history that really definitely properly happened' (Historie) looks stolen from another language, and doesn't turn up that much in daily life.