OMG — Oh My God

Lost in Translation — How Werder "steal" from England… "Football's coming home" ("Three Lions on the Shirt")… Every football fan knows this EURO 1996 anthem by Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds. Since Bremen take things literally ("Moin, moin, Gascoigne"), the stadium DJs simply translated the song word-for-word into German. But that's not all. Werder also went "English shopping" with a slogan in 2016…

Copycat Werder Bremen: A song regularly played at the Weserstadion since the 2003/04 Double season is "Fußball kommt nach Haus" ("Das W auf dem Trikot") — and instead of "Jules Rimet still gleaming," it goes "Die Meisterschale glänzt noch." Even the Monkees' "Daydream Believer" wasn't safe from the Weser translation artists. In Bremen it sounds like: "Wir sind Werder Bremen" — with all due respect, that's strictly for die-hard fans… as is the slogan "This is Osterdeich," launched in 2016 as the northern German equivalent of the supposedly untouchable "This is Anfield" to motivate the team in the relegation battle.

Werder — cringe moment: The cringe came at the homecoming after the 1992 European Cup Winners' Cup triumph in Lisbon. "And now Otto Rehhagel sets foot on German soil," intoned Werder's house reporter Rolf Töpperwien of ZDF, truly abandoning all restraint as the coaching king arrived with the trophy at Bremen-Neuenland airport.

0-4 in Pasching: The 2003/04 "Double" season also featured one of the greatest footballing embarrassments in Werder Bremen's history. On July 30, 2003, Werder went to the UI Cup semi-final with virtually the same XI that would become German champions and cup winners less than a year later — and were thrashed 0-4 (0-3) by Austrian no-name club SV Superfund Pasching.

The "Slasher": Bremen's Norbert Siegmann is certainly not remembered for his 1-0 goal in the Bundesliga return against Borussia Mönchengladbach on the opening day of the 1981/82 season. He entered football infamy for one of the most horrifying fouls in Bundesliga history. On August 14, 1981, Siegmann's open studs-up tackle slashed a 25 cm gash in Ewald Lienen's thigh in the match against Arminia Bielefeld — the wound gaped to the bone. The images became the defining sporting horror of the 1980s. Siegmann was banned for ten weeks. The two later reconciled.