Dortmund – German Football Museum (Trench Goal Football)

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In the first of (yet) another series, I’ve been to the German Football Museum today and there were many exhibits that I thought were noteworthy. This one is British from 1917 and it was designed to mock the Germans during the First World War, with ten enemy soldiers forming obstacles for the ball which has to be guided into the mouth of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Mimicking the western front, the obstacles included von Hindenburg at Inside Right, von der Goltz at Right Half and Count Zeppelin at Right Back. I rather like the ‘British Design’ and it’s a quirky little item to have in a German football museum.