Johnnyspireite7, on 24 August 2014 - 08:13 PM, said:
They also don't have a nanny state nor a league which has been old enough (don't forget the Bundesliga didn't get formed until 1963) for old decrepit stadia the likes of Illsborough (which is still a death trap IMO) or dare I say it, our old Lady Saltergate!
I would say that statement is a misleading. Reading that one would think that their football and stadiums had to be built from ground zero in 1963. But of course Eintracht. Frankfurt were European Cup finalists in 1960 and West Germany won the World Cup in 1954. A quick bit of research confirms that EF's was first opened in 1925,
However the Germans have regularly rebuilt their stadiums, in the 1950s (presumably Bomber Command may have had something to do with that) and again more recently for the hosting of the World Cup.