The chronology of the chaos: How the master finals 2001 was sticked

Yes, the Bundesliga can be exciting. So tingling and gripping that you almost jump on the brain before excitation. Well, the season result was the same almost 20 years ago as in the past eight years. But hello?! 2001, Bavaria's last meter to the championship, are rightly one of the emotional exceptional states in this country. Every Schalke, who was able to think of it at the time or even clearly, knows where he was on May 19, 2001 between 5:18 p.m. and 5:22 p.m. The four -minute championship of the narrow, the "Master of Hearts" - everyone remembers.

• high voltage into the last second
• "Haching again second -class"

Cheering, even celebrating ecstatically - these were the emotional flashes with which the editors of the online department of the kicker pursued the Bundesliga games. From 2000/01, however, a lot was different. Because in this season, the payment channel "Premiere", the predecessor of "Sky", introduced the live broadcast of the Bundesliga games-for the kicker it was the kick-off of his live ticket.

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The demands on the "round care" of a single game in the online editorial team changed almost overnight. Instead of a cozy summary of ten lines after the final whistle, it was now necessary to be a minute of minute at ball height, to tick opportunities, to distribute yellow card, to change players and, above all Description. And all of this with an extremely rigid symbol of the character, because the programmers could not imagine that you can describe a hanenbüchen Lapsus, such as Frank Mill's post shot in 1986, in more than 140 characters.

Branding horror in the parking stadium!

Live! Ticker after the 0: 1

Almost six years before Twitter, all kicker-Tickerer were well experienced twitterer. Letting out text was allowed to be the same at the same time as the game report to be set, which should also go online shortly after the final whistle. If you think of your own first ticker inserts today, the hands, which are damp before excitement, will automatically come back.

high voltage into the last second

The tickers in the final phase of the 34th matchday 2000/01 were gossip wet from top to bottom. Even though it all started cool. Schalke had put the 33rd matchday in the sand and three points less than FC Bayern in the account. After three minutes, S04 is also back against Unterhaching 0: 1 ("Branding horror in the sold -out parking stadium"), after 26 minutes with 0: 2 ("What's going on here!"). The drops seemed to be sucked, in the online editorial team you saw relaxed at the end of the season. But then it became rapid - Schalke equalized ("hardly to believe. A crazy game"), it caught 2: 3 before Jörg Böhme suddenly took the lead in the lead. "4: 3! This game surpasses everything that has been going on this season," wrote the kicker colleague at 5:01 p.m.

This game surpasses everything this season!

Live! Ticker after the 4: 3

But he had made this bill without Sergej Barbarz and Patrik Andersson: at 5:16 p.m., the Hamburg head heads the 1-0 against Bavaria and thus makes the Schalke the master in the live table. At 5:18 p.m., Schalke will whistle, on the TV screens in the kicker editorial team you can see how Schalke fans flood the lawn of the Park Stadium, inspired by the first championship title since 1958. Rudi Assauer except for happiness - and clear, with cigar. The rising text is hectically rewritten. "Sensation" shoots you through your head as a brave line, which would be wiped off today as a ridiculous understatement.

Nothing came of the master celebration - the full parking stadium in Gelsenkirchen. imago images

But suddenly the colleague calls: "Free kick in the penalty area of the Hamburgers!" The hint acts like a magnet, all jumping from your seats and runs to the workplace of the ticker colleague. Ten electrified people are excited about how the Munich team in peace and quiet, but also how the offensive Oliver Kahn is pushed back and forth by HSV players. Stefan Effenberg taps, and Andersson beats the ball into the mesh. 1: 1, shouting in the editorial team, the TV reporter scratches: "What is there hornier than football!"

"Haching again second -class"

The kicker colleague taps: "In the fourth minute, Andersson shoots an indirect free kick from 10 meters into the mesh at the presentation of Effenberg." No more, no less. The chronology of chaotic conditions. The last ticker entry from the parking stadium, where joys swell to the pain streams of pain, is: "Haching again second -class."

This is also correct, kick correction, one could say, because around 20 years ago it was more of what happened between the four corner flags. This was also true for the live ticker in his infancy. We have learned since then. Pure emotions such as factual descriptions are what made the live ticker the heart of our reporting. In the meantime we have all become more broken, and yet you think: How nice would a seasonal finish like in 2001! For football. And for ticking.