Geographical faux pas on the TV channel Sky: In a news overlay for the home game on Friday evening, SC Freiburg was declared a Swabian club.
The misfortune frightened a number of sports club fans on Friday, who informed themselves on Sky Sport News HD about the possible change of Leipzig striker Timo Werner to Chelsea. Because while the main picture was speculating about Werner’s move to London, the Bundesliga news ticker announced below: “Freiburg: The Swabians have to do without Manuel Gulde against M’gladbach.”
For patriotic Baden residents, this should be a blow to the stomach – not so much Guldes unfortunate failure, but Freiburg’s relocation to Swabian. As if you had located Werner’s future place of work in Scotland. Or made the Stuttgart native Werner to the Black Forest. Or the Sky editorial office, which is located in Unterföhring at the gates of Munich, suspected in the Franconian part of Bavaria.
Oh weia! Big sorry in the Breisgau! We will pass it on immediately! pic.twitter.com/2dTuRMu5at
– Sky Sport (@SkySportDE) June 5, 2020
In short: A mistake that requires a correction, even exactly exactly 50 years after the last referendum on the then newly created state of Baden-Württemberg. “That hurts,” tweeted the SC Freiburg and promptly got an excuse: “Oh weia! Big sorry in the Breisgau!”, Answered Sky.
And by the way: Mönchengladbach, home of the Freiburg opponent on Friday at 8.30 p.m., is in the Rhineland. Not in Westphalia. Which sometimes causes a little confusion in the deep southwest.
Video: Christian Streich and the painful video evidence
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