Hatters Worldwide S2- 1 Franz Collinge ( Germany )
It is with great pl easure that hedgegrower starts the second `Hatters Worldwide` series with an article that comes to us penned by long time County supporter Franz Collinge from the village of Lippertsreute ,about 5 miles from the Southern German lakeside town of Ueberlingen in the awe inspiring shadow of the Alps! With the sole exception of the link explanatory text , every word that follows below are Franz` own…… ………………………………………………. My name is Franz Collinge (bodensee 57 on yellowboard), and have been following County since 1965 when I remember seeing us beaten by Hamburg SV 5-1 in a friendly at EP. ( See this report on that match - https://hedgegrower.blogspot.com/2016/05/stockport-county-v-fsv-hamburg-10-may.html -by Des Hinks Snr ) I was born in Offerton, just across the road from the Belgrade Hotel which at the time was owned by Dragan Lukic- the older ones will remember him. The hotel was not the dump it is now and was often used by teams
