Broken post from Bökelberg
The events during the championship game between Borussia Mönchengladbach and Werder Bremen in the Bökelberg Stadium in Mönchengladbach on April 3, 1971 in the Bundesliga season 1970/71 are referred to as the broken post from Bökelberg . Because one of the goals collapsed, referee Meuser ended the game prematurely. As a consequence of the broken post, the Bundesliga clubs introduced goals made of aluminum instead of the previously used goals made of wood .
Course of the game
Borussia welcomed Werder Bremen on matchday 27 as leaders on their way to defending their title; the lead over the table runner-up FC Bayern Munich was only four goals with a tie. After Horst Köppel had taken the lead in the 7th minute, Werder Bremen equalized in the 17th minute with a goal from Heinz-Dieter Hasebrink . Subsequently, the game remained goalless well into the second half before striker Herbert Lrecken tried to get a free kick by Günter Netzer in the Bremen penalty area and ran into the Bremen goal, where he got tangled in the goal net. When he tried to pull himself up on the net, the left goal post broke off near the ground and the entire goal collapsed. Laum said:
“Werder goalkeeper Günter Bernard caught it [the ball], but I had so much momentum on it that I flew into the net. That's when I noticed that something was happening. I saw the gate break, then took cover and ended up lying like a fish in the net. Captured. There was then a huge laugh in the north curve. That was a spectacle. "
After the Gladbach players and helpers had tried unsuccessfully for some time to set up the goal again, the referee Gert Meuser, who was in charge of his fourth Bundesliga game, broke off the game in the 88th minute, twelve minutes after Lüllen fell into the goal.
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Wolfgang Kleff , Rainer Bonhof ( 66th Hans-Jürgen Wloka ), Berti Vogts , Ludwig Müller , Hartwig Bleidick , Peter Dietrich ( 36th Herbert Lektiven ), Günter Netzer , Horst Köppel , Herbert Wimmer , Jupp Heynckes , Ulrik le Fevre Trainer: Hennes Weisweiler   |
Günter Bernard , Dieter Zembski , Rudolf Assauer , Arnold Schütz , Egon Coordes , Heinz-Dieter Hasebrink , Karl-Heinz Kamp , Bernd Schmidt , Bernd Lorenz , Ole Bjørnmose , Eckhard Deterding Trainer: Robert Gebhardt |
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17 ′ (1: 1 Heinz-Dieter Hasebrink)
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consequences
On April 29, 1971, the sports court of the German Football Association declared Werder Bremen the winner and scored the game 2-0 for Bremen, because Mönchengladbach, as the host, was responsible for the unplayability of the field due to the broken post and did not provide a replacement goal. In addition, the sports court sentenced Borussia to a fine of 1500 DM . At the end of the season, Borussia was the first club in the history of the Bundesliga to defend the championship title, despite the points it lost as a result. After this incident, all Bundesliga clubs got rid of the wooden goals and replaced them with aluminum goals.
The broken post is now in the Borussia Museum.
Similar events
Due to the Madrid goal fall on April 1, 1998, the Champions League game between Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund was postponed by 76 minutes.
literature
- Claudia Maria Arndt, Volker Fuchs (ed.): Pipe man and broken post. The history of football in the Rhein-Sieg district. In: Publication of the history and antiquity association for Siegburg and the Rhein-Sieg district . Volume 27, Rheinlandia, Siegburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-938535-18-9 .
- Burkhard Fritsche: Broken post and foal fever. Scenes from 100 years of Borussia Mönchengladbach . The workshop, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-89533-297-6 .
- Frank Lemke: Football myths in the media and literature using the example of Borussia Mönchengladbach . GRIN, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-640-27103-0 , p. 59.
Web links
- Borussia - big wins and broken posts
- Spectacular game breaks - from breaking a post to a minute's silence
- 1970/71: Title defense despite a broken goal, at Bundesliga.de ( Memento from May 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Netzer on the wrong track RP-Online from October 20, 2010
- Famous for the broken post: Lobe turns 75!
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b spiegel.de of March 20, 2006: Short passes: Jensen mault, a goal celebrates its birthday
- ↑ a b welt.de of October 16, 2009: L ... is Mr. Pfostenbruch from Bökelberg
- ↑ rp-online.de of August 11, 2008: Borussia - A wrong decision ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 40 years of broken posts: Something was wrong in the Bökelberg stadium ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: Rheinische Post from April 3, 2011
- ↑ Broken post from Bökelberg, excerpt from Google Books in the Google book search
