If Schalke don’t beat Hoffenheim at home on Sunday (AEDT), it will tie Tasmania’s league record of 31 consecutive games without a victory from the 1965-66 season – a record Tasmania are very proud of.
Indeed, so proud that they’ve even gone so far as to describe themselves as “historic Bundesliga chokers” on their Twitter page and the “worst Bundesliga club of all time” on their website.
But first things first. Where did the fifth-tierclub, which is based in the south-east Berlin borough of Neukolln, get its unlikely Aussie name?
Nobody knows for sure but the most readily accepted story is that a group of Berliners, who formed the original club back in 1900, were planning to emigrate to the island and named their new club after it.
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