Happy Birthday Dear Dynamo, Happy Birthday To You
Dynamo Dresden 1-0 Energie Cottbus
Rudolf Harbig Stadion, Dresden
2. Bundesliga
Sunday 21st April 2013
Attendance: 29,153
For this blog you're going to need two friends.
Organise yourself into a straight line.
The first one of you shouts “DY” whilst
jumping, when your daps hit the ground the second hops high and barks
“NA” then the third springs up bellowing “MO”. Now repeat.
Faster. Faster again. Now look at yourself. Shouldn't you be working?
This scene when played out with 9,000 yellow clad
football fans doing it in perfectly regimented order across Germany's
steepest terrace is quite a sight. The Dynamo Dresden fans are quite
some fans.
This match was the first home game since Dynamo
Dresden became old enough to claim it's Winter Fuel Allowance and
turned sixty. There was a midweek firework display, the banks of the river Elbe were turned red through flares, streamers were ordered, a cake baked, celebrity guests invited,
commemorative stamps and pin badges produced, someone invited the
annoying neighbours and AiTinpot was named official media partner
*cough*.
To get the party started the Dynamo fans raised
27,000 (twenty seven thousand) Euros from their own fans and had been
working on the decorations for the party for 6 (six) weeks. The
staggering display they produced shows each Euro cents well spent.
The theme of the display was “Dynamo as a stage
for the greats of the world” and consisted of cardboard caricatures of famous celebrities who had popped into the K Block to celebrate
with Dynamo. Einstein, Maradona, Al Capone, Brad Pitt, Gorbachev,
The Queen, Michael Schumacher were all in the K Block for the
occasion. Apologies were received from Toni Di Bart and Rusty Lee.
Really, you should watch the video. It's superb. It's below. Underneath the video are the AiT bonus commentary extras
outlining my reactions.
52 seconds: Set your eyes to “stunned”, lower
your jaw until it reaches the “agog” position.
1min: Begin to rock frantically in your chair with
your mouth wide open. (Repeat until 2 min 04 seconds)
1 min: 10 seconds. Say, very loudly, “shit the
bed"
1 min 32 seconds: Gasp as your hat is blown into
orbit due to power of awe.
2min 04s: Shout “Dynamo” over and over like
your eyebrows depended on it and realise you've know started bobbing
up and down on your heals.
2 min 31 seconds: Squeal like a girl and clap your hands twice. (This actually happened)
2min 32 seconds: Arrange your willy in a slightly
upright position due to an unexplainable fizzy feeling in your
undercrackers. (Obviously......ehhmm...this didn't happen.....)
2min 40 seconds : Wave a small flag furiously. If you don't have a flag and bin bag will do.
2 min 45: Notice you have goose pimples.
3 min 15 seconds: Mouth “Fuck me this is
brilliant”to the person next to you. If it could be European Footb,
Twitt, Instragram's Danny Last then
all the better.
To add to the occasion old eastern German foes Energie Cottbus had turned up and had made a display of their own while all this was going on. A display that bought change from Five Euros and took around 37 minutes to make but was effective as a juvenile two fingers up to the celebrations. They'd joined in with the party theme though, but with banners of cocks in the shape of birthday cake candles. Childish. Puerile. Funny
To add to the occasion old eastern German foes Energie Cottbus had turned up and had made a display of their own while all this was going on. A display that bought change from Five Euros and took around 37 minutes to make but was effective as a juvenile two fingers up to the celebrations. They'd joined in with the party theme though, but with banners of cocks in the shape of birthday cake candles. Childish. Puerile. Funny
Grow up lads eh.
The match starts, you slump in your chair, mouth
wide open and exhausted.
Token match shot.
The highlight of the game happened before a ball
was kicked. The match was largely an irrelevant epilogue to a
brilliant display of passion and pride from those present. During the
match five guys with megaphones orchestrated the unrelenting din
whilst a 3,500 Euro drum provided a pulsating rhythm. The fans
jumped up and down in synchronicity, undertook rhythmic hand claps
routines, participated in chants where everyone whistled, waved huge
Dynamo flags across every eye line and created a wonderful atmosphere
fuelled by a battling Dynamo performance and victory.
The day after the tio display wasn't quite as spectacular as I remembered.
DY-NA-MO!
Grow up lads eh...
Gorbi, apparently.
You can find more about the superb Dynamo Dresden stadium tour here.
More pictures of the making of the tifo display are here
and some from during the game here.
Danny's pictures are here and there's more over here if you've really not had enough. I've not seen enough.
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