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German football has been rife with protests in recent weeks – but what are the fans angry about? And has it worked?
Let’s find out 🤝
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Why are German fans using remote control cars tennis balls and chocolate coins to disrupt matches and did it work let’s find out since the start of the Year almost every game in the top two tiers of German Football has seen protests from fans Hamburg supporters chose to
Attach bike locks to goalposts which had to be removed with bolk Cutters hanser rostock fans used toy cars with smoke bombs attached forcing the stewards to chase them around the pitch while several other games were halted by tennis balls and chocolate coins being thrown onto the field but why it’s all
Part of a United stand against the proposed new TV deal which would have seen the German league sell 8% of its TV and marketing rights in a 20-year agreement for a cash injection of around1 billion e but fans feared the deal would put pressure on clubs to maximize profits and alter kickoff times
In pursuit of additional TV income and it’s proved effective with the league announcing its search for an investor will be discontinued for now read Rafa’s piece for the full breakdown
22 Comments
Where’s JJ Bull and Jon Mackenzie 😪
German fans goated for this. We dont care if we cant compete internationally longterm. We only want that the fans can be heard and dont end like english clubs with no rights
This is fairly correct. However, there’s an additional aspect to this:
The German football league (vote) already did a vote about this back in 2023. The majority of clubs voted against allowing investors to purchase tv rights.
However, they then did another, allegedly illegal, vote behind closed doors on the same matter in December 2023. This is what sparked the outrage. Don’t forget that the 50+1 rule is also a legal requirement (if you ignore the disgusting cases of Hoppenheim or red bull) which means club representatives have to vote for what their members want. Allegedly, people like Hannovers Martin Kind (who’s been trying abolish 50+1 and other German essentials for ages in pursuit of greed and more money) voted against their membership base which is illegal.
Such a positive result and it shows that democracy should not be undermined.
We’d rather have less superstars or be less competitive in some Mickey Mouse European competition than losing our football the way we like it. Affordable tickets, standing, accessible ko times, having a beer during the match, supporting your team in a loud and creative manner and mostly not being part of an oil sheikh billionaire pissing contest.
Not in Europe but watch EPL from Asia. Why the rejection of huge funding ???
For my country getting sponsors are good enough, and any TV deal would be a huge boost. DO explain.
Germans are goated
German Fans are 🐐,
Don't sell themselves for sporting success
Do a video called "Why are Tifo fans so angry at the athletic?"
This is why a German club won't win the UCL in the next 50 years….
Todd Boehly's Chelsea had a better transition than Tifo to The Athletic. Bring back Joe Divine!
German fans want Bayern to dominate the league every season
"There's only one country that frightens me – that's the country of Germany. I don't know if you guys are students of history or not, but for those of you who aren't, Germany, in the previous century, they decided to go to war. And who did they choose to go to war with? THE WORLD. So you think that would last about five seconds and the world would win. But it was actually close. Then 30 years pass, and Germany decides to go to war again. And, once again, they choose as their foe… THE WORLD" ~ norm macdonald
Well in short: We won!!!!!💪💪
I miss the long form video analysis before the rebrand
Key word is for now…
It f*cking did work!!!
RIP Tifo
i miss the long form video content
Will have to unsubscribe if you continue to post drivel like this.
Greedy rich people
Ich bin aus Deutschland. Beobachtungen:
A) viele Fans sind auch gegen die Ultras. Die allermeisten lassen sich vom Boulevard beeinflussen. Viele sind über die Bedingungen/Auswirkungen nur oberflächlich informiert: Ein Kumpel von mir meinte, er habe beim ersten Protest im Block einige der Schoko-Taler gegessen, da er gar nicht wusste, wofür die gedacht gewesen seien. Nur wenige Medien haben das Problem von Beginn an inhaltlich begleitet (Rasenfunk).
B) Die DFL hat von "roten Linien" geschwätzt, ohne benennen zu können oder zu wollen, was diese tatsächlich umfassen.
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Sorry, if i cant translate my thoughts properly. Here a summary:
A) poeple / Fans are divided an partielle disinformed.
B) the "German Football League" (the broadcast icence seller, not DFB!) failed to make conditions of a possible Private Equity Deal transparent.
Why has this channel gone so far downhill? And why did it start getting so much worse after they hired that berk from football daily?
I see both sides of this, they do need some i jection to not be bullied by pl & it's nice to grow the league, but it can't come at to high a cost jzust to appease americans & japs whilst you go to a game at an odd hour