All the footprints you've ever left and fear expecting ahead (Wolfsburg)

A little history, copy and pasted from the Wolfsburg website, they were formed in 1945, and almost ceased to exist in 1946:

VfL Wolfsburg was founded at 7.00 pm, inside a barrack in Reislinger Straße,by a woman and eleven men; for a short while the club was named VSK Wolfsburg. The founding members were: Irma Dziomba, Herbert Chall, Sepp Dietz, Alois Dilla, Willi Hilbert, Kurt Lindner, Heinz Schacht, Arthur Schickl, Erich Schilling, Adam Schröck, Fritz Walb and Rudolf Zenker. At the time of the founding of the club, there were seven departments within it, they were: Football, Handball, Gymnastics, Tennis, Bicycle riding, Boxing and Chess.

1946: At the beginning of the year, the club almost ceased to exist, as all but one of the players moved to what was then 1 FC Wolfsburg, after they had beaten a side called TSV Sülfeld 5-1. "Jupp" Josef Meyer was the only one who stayed. He made his way over to see Willi Hilbert, to discuss how the duo could form a respectable football-playing team. Both "signed" a group of men within the next few days, few of whom had ever played football. Hermann Heuser (later boss of the successful VfL handball team), Heinz Walter (Boxer), Ernst Buchert, the Schwarzenbart brothers, Heinz Birg and others were in the new team, which lost its first match against an English army side 0-8. But the basis was there, and that was the only thing which counted! A year after starting out, the side won their first title (area champions Gifhorn).

And an interesting little story on the kit:

The local youth trainer at the time was a man called Bernd Elberskirch, who had ten green coloured jerseys at his disposal. Bed sheets donated by the public were sewn together by wives to make the shorts to go with the shirts. The fact that not only the club stuck with green and white as their club colours, but that the town also adopted the colours, makes every VfL fan proud to this day!

Interesting fact - when their new stadium was opened in 2002 A-ha played at the opening ceremony -



I hate that song, so that's the literal video version, which is pretty funny, but not as funny as the Bonnie Tyler "Total Eclipse of the Heart" one -



Ummm, yeah, football...
So here's the official website's preview with its little Manchester weather gag:

As the ‘Wolves’ departed the VOLKSWAGEN ARENA on Tuesday morning, the cold wind and rain they were faced with was rather typical as the sort of weather that they could expect on their afternoon arrival in Manchester. The 19 man squad, with trainer and staff, were making the journey with quiet confidence - as Marcel Schäfer explained: “We’re all really looking forward to this game!” The German international joined trainer Armin Veh on Tuesday evening in ‘Old Trafford’ for the pre-match press conference, during which he confidently stated: “We’re playing against one of the strongest clubs in the world in one of the most wonderful stadiums in the world. We may be the underdogs but the pressure is off us. We will need to be compact and make effective use of the few chances we get.”

Prediction - Looking forward to a good game, hoping they come to attack, rather than play to stifle us, by all accounts they should do, although the manager's words above don't really seem to imply that, but still. Go 3-1 to us.
And to finish, the obligatory picture of a wolf...