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Low goals lead to lack of success

Reluctant to attribute their failures this season to their players, the Hamburg SV football team have found something else to blame – the goalposts in their home stadium. HSV have scored fewer goals than any club in the Bundesliga (German Premier League) over the course of this season. The Hamburger Abendblatt newspaper has now reported that the goals in the Hamburg Arena stand 2.39 metres high, with the crossbar five centimetres lower than the prescribed 2.44 metres.

HSV spokesman Joern Wolf said: “Obviously we’re going to measure that again. “If those numbers reported are correct, we will make sure we have a new goal in place that conforms with the rules by the next match against Borussia Dortmund. It’s a good thing no one hit the crossbar last week in the Energie Cottbus match.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .