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My German team, Fortuna Düsseldorf (used to work in Düsseldorf for a short time) are one game away from being promoted to the Bundesliga. They are in the relegation play off where the 3rd bottom team from the Bundesliga plays two games, home and away, against the 3rd placed team in Bundesliga 2 which this season is Düsseldorf.
Fortuna Düsseldorf, on a 14 game unbeaten run in Bundesliga 2, went to VFL Bochum and beat them 3-0 at their place. The second leg is at home for F95 on Monday and Fortuna Düsseldorf just need to not lose by more than 2 to get promoted.
Not too sure if this sort of play off would work in England where the 3rd worse team in the Premiership plays the 3rd best team in the Championship - that would have been Luton vs Leeds this season. I like our format better and it's great when it works for us like 10 years ago....
Fortuna Düsseldorf are like QPR in many ways in that they spend most of their time in the second tier and have the odd skirmish in the top tier. Perennial underdogs where I expect them to do the unexpected. Normally the Bundesliga team wins the relegation playoff but F95 might just buck that trend.....
Anyway, hope Düsseldorf does it on Monday as I plan to be in Munich for an American Football game in November (New York Giants v Carolina Panthers) so hope to catch Düsseldorf the same weekend for a Bundesliga game. It's on my bucket list to see Fortuna Düsseldorf play live so that'll be a great opportunity. Hope QPR aren't playing at home that weekend...
Useless sentiment 'these are the games we have to win if we are to stay up' When have QPR even done that? We'll stay up be beating Leeds and Coventry at the end of the season.
Saying that I am going for a 3-1 win for us today.
Last September my insurance renewal quote from Tesco went up from £450 to £750. I went onto a couple of comparison sites and got the Tesco quote down to £514. So I told Tesco this and they honoured the reduced quote from the comparison site.
It's all about profiteering. Nothing else.
Same with all insurance. My landlord insurance was due to go up from £34 per month to £44 per month. Went online and got a quote from the exact same insurer and got it down to £24 per month. So cancelled my original policy and took out the new one with the exact same insurer. This was Direct Line.