By Steve Rosenberg BBC News, Hamburg [...] Hamburg SV fans idolise their team . When the blue-and-whites are playing at home, the stadium heaves with songs and chants. For many of the supporters in the stands, Hamburg football club is their life, their soul. And very soon it can be their final resting place, too. On a patch of grass, some 50m from the stadium, stone-mason Uli Beppler shows me the site of what will, when it is finished, be Europe's first football cemetery. "The entrance is going to look like a football goal," Mr Beppler says, pointing to a colourful sketch of this unusual project. "Then you go through the posts and go a bit down in the centre of a field, as if it's the green of a sports area." He shows me another picture - graves arranged on three levels like the stands of a sports stadium, and in a semi-circle to resemble a football pitch. [...] "If you think about people supporting a club for 30, 40, 50 years, it's part of their life," he explains. "So why shouldn't it be part of their death?" Like many football clubs around the world, Hamburg SV has received plenty of requests from fans asking for their ashes to be buried under a goalpost or scattered across the pitch. Unlike in Britain, the law in Germany does not allow that. But there is nothing to prevent a funeral, courtesy of your favourite football club. "Many people think it's crazy and a strange idea," admits Christian Reichert, a member of the board of Hamburg SV. "Yes it is. But it's strange to follow your team to away games all around Europe, to Moscow or Bulgaria," he says. "These people are strange. They supported the club all their lives and so now they can feel that after their life, it's going on," Mr Reichert adds. "After all, a Hamburg fan lives for his football club. I'm considering reserving myself a space. But it's difficult, because my wife has already been buried in a different cemetery," he says. But 15 fans have already signed up for a burial behind the stadium. And with plots expected to cost the equivalent of an annual season ticket, Hamburg predicts that many more of its supporters will decide that this is the perfect place to rest in peace when the final whistle blows. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is an excerpt of the full BBC article here And I want my skull to be buried in the centre spot! -rolleyes -lol
-ohmy...so you can be as dedicated as these die hard football fans?! @kdot: Yeah I like football and yep I'll go to sleep soon now as the sun can be shining any moment lol.
hardcore enough would be nice to be buried in a football kit most hardcore football stuff i ever heard germans huh
