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The Safe Stadium Experience
In July, the German FA, the DFB, and the Bundesliga association, the DFL, organised a much publicised Security Summit in which, in the wake of public outcry at events at the end of last season, a Code...
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The death of fan culture? Not quite
Yesterday afternoon in a nondescript Frankfurt hotel conference room, representatives from the 36 members of the Deutsche Fußball Liga, the 36 clubs that make up the Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga,...
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East German football and the Fall of the Iron Curtain
It’s late summer in 1989 and something strange is happening all across the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Gorbatchow’s policy of glasnost had taken hold across the Soviet Union and the people of...
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FSV Zwickau and Red Kaos
Source: http://www.redkaos.de Note: This article originally appeared on http://www.inbedwithmaradona.com on 14 March 2012. Perhaps the greatest enemy of any group of active fans or ultras in Germany...
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Paradise lost
Naming a city’s main station “Paradise” is quite an audacious move. As you cruise through the Thuringian Forest and the picturesque Saale valley and roll into Jena Paradies station, that’s exactly the...
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Dynamo live to fight another day
Picture courtesy of Unterwegs in Sachen Fußball. The explosion of noise, jubilation and relief from perhaps one of Germany’s largest one-club city could be heard throughout the Bundesrepublik. SG...
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When Karl Marx met the Old Lady
FCK fans cross the Brenner Pass en route to Turin. Photo courtesy of cfc-fanpage.de This is a first-hand account of FC Karl-Marx Stadt’s (now Chemnitzer FC) trip to Turin to face Juventus in the UEFA...
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On Red Bull and apathy
On many occasions have I sat down at my desk to write about RB Leipzig. The almost universal source of hate and scorn in German football is a universal source of frustration and keyboard bashing in...
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Brdarić’s new boys streets ahead of Regionalliga favourites
After somewhat of a false dawn for the reborn Regionalliga Nordost last year, a season in which RB Leipzig cantered away with the title, the second edition has delivered more of an even playing field...
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Why I love football
#492329715 / gettyimages.com There are moments in football that underline its greatness, its ability to deliver generation-defining moments, stir emotions to an extent no other sport can. These moments...
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