The St. Pauli Chronicle
The terraces29 Mar 2027
Supporters organise against the St. Pauli board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Squad29 Mar 2027
The knee: Leon Wolff out for 17 days
17 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. St. Pauli lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Boardroom29 Mar 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at St. Pauli
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at St. Pauli is running low.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at St. Pauli
Joel Chima Fujita and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Real improvement from Jannik Westphal at St. Pauli
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jannik Westphal is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Noahkai Banks
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Taichi Hara knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Taichi Hara trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Looking ahead29 Mar 2027
David Nemeth goes back to face Mainz 05
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is David Nemeth’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and St. Pauli needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Andréas Hountondji has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Andréas Hountondji has written the date down.
In brief
- Market The Ben Voll question follows St. Pauli around
- Squad The penny has dropped for Joël Drommel
- Looking ahead St. Pauli travel to Mainz 05