Darmstadt chief compares drop to life with '102-year-old grandma'

Darmstadt president Rüdiger Fritsch has summed up the inevitability of his side's relegation from the Bundesliga after falling so far behind the rest of the pack. "It's like a 102-year-old grandma where you know that one day it's going to happen and then it does. Then you're still very, very sad," he told reporters. The 1-0 home defeat by Heidenheim on Sunday condemned the Lilies to an immediate return to the second division with three matchdays left. The team went 22 games in a row without a wi