Borussia Monchengladbach are already up there at the top of the running for our annual Fan-Friendly Club of the Year award (which we definitely didn’t just invent).
On Tuesday the German club’s Champions League tie at Manchester City was postponed because of some truly Mancunian rain.
Now that was some rain! ☹️ #cityvbmg #mcfc pic.twitter.com/ugoGJEOl3O
— Manchester City (@ManCity) September 13, 2016
The thousands of travelling fans were crestfallen, to say the least, but to ease the pain somewhat, the club announced that they would refund the cost of the match tickets to every fan – even if they used them for the rearranged game at the Etihad tonight.
Class indeed.
But the club went one further on match day when they drafted a letter for each fan who stayed on to watch the game to send to their boss explaining their absence from work.
Moenchengladbach have drafted an absence note for their fans who've stayed over in Manchester for rearranged game. pic.twitter.com/KBGrorDdmT
— Steve Douglas (@sdouglas80) September 14, 2016
“… in Manchester to fulfil the important duty to support Borussia Monchengladbach in the Champions League…”
And here it is in the original German, which will make far more sense for all the German people who will be reading it.
@sdouglas80 pic.twitter.com/1pdDFjuHLp
— NeilMCFC (@NeilMCFC) September 14, 2016
Not exactly sure why the German original gets a snazzy faux-handwriting-esque font while the English translation is in boring old ariel, but we won’t quibble.
Nice work, Monchengladbach, though we’re not entirely sure our boss would be convinced by the note from the “Sportdirektor” Max Eberl.
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