EINTRACHT FRANKFURT are renowned for having some of the most fanatical followers on the continent.
You will remember the incredible scenes as their supporters – clad in white – clinched the Europa League title against Rangers two seasons back.
And now hundreds of their followers have proved their devotion to the cause again.
European football‘s governing body Uefa had banned the German outfit from selling away tickets to their Europa Conference League Group G game against Aberdeen on Thursday.
The Dons had been set to welcome 1,750 Eintracht Frankfurt fans until the ban.
But the Bundesliga club had the book thrown at them by Uefa after their fans used pyrotechnics and threw objects in their 1-0 away win at Finland’s HJK Helsinki on November 9.
They were also fined 30,000 Euros.
But that all came too late for some of the club’s hardiest followers – who had already booked their travel to Scotland and were determined to follow through with the trip.
And remarkable footage shared on social media last night by photographer Christian Machowski shows a couple of hundred fans gathered on a HILL near Pittodrie as the match got underway.
The German fans sang and chanted as they stood on the Granite City’s Broad Hill, with only a small police presence keeping an eye on proceedings.
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Things didn’t turn out the way that Frankfurt might have hoped, as they crashed to a 2-0 defeat to Barry Robson’s men.
One fan wrote: “If I had booked flights and hotel I would have done same and had a party.”
Machowski replied: “Not sure I would stood on top of that mountain in the cold wind.”
Another Dons fan chipped in with some local knowledge, writing: “Wasn’t bad tonight, mild for this time of year.”
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