A little more to this: The Yellow Wall had previously been warned about singing anti-Hoffenheim songs after their last incident. The club was concerned about being punished but was assured by the DFB that no club would be punished because of the actions of a few supporters. Fast forward to this past December for BVB at Hoffenheim. The Yellow Wall start singing the song again, so Hopp has them pump the most annoying sound he can find over the PA, uncomfortably loud. DFB subsequently bans ALL Dortmund supporters from Hoffenheim for two years, which is where the “broken word” stuff comes from. Hopp then releases a statement to the effect of fuck you and your ultras. These incidents are supposed to be a show of solidarity among the ultra groups.
Maybe if the league embraced this new found competition a little more Bayern wouldn’t crash out in embarrassing style during the knockouts each spring
That’s rich coming from a fan of the team who needed two legs of 10 on 11 and a handful of gifts from the officials to beat us but whatevs
Played stopped in the Hoffenheim/Bayern match for the second time for anti-Hopp banners. Bayern fans seem like a bunch of cunts.
I doubt he’s going to get minutes for a couple of years so he probably has incentives for amateur game performances
Haaland looks like an adult playing in a youth league out there. He’s special and I’m glad he’s not at Leipzig.
Those and a handful of great saves by both keepers were the only things worth watching. Match was disjointed and boring. Really wasted those glorious kits. Augsburg has played us tough this year.
If anyone needs a good soccer doc to watch during quarantine....Inside Borussia Dortmund on Amazon was pretty good. Lack of Pulisic was lame but I get it as he was already bought by Chelsea but loaned back for 2nd half of 2019 season
Watching Dortmund's meltdown on the Amazon show. They're currently talking about 2003/04 when they missed CL, and it made me think of talk from this thread previously on how Dortmund was run. It seems like they were confident in their team making CL, and continuously made risky business moves because of it, and it backfired more than they were run poorly. I guess you could say they should know better and that in terms makes it a poor decision, but the same policies brought them two German titles and a European title less than 10 years prior
Yeah they went away from their established method of home grown talent and went with big ticket players and it didn’t go well.
And there's a lot of others years that it did. It's a very interesting study. I'm amazed that with the stature they were at the time, and the successes they were having, that finances were dire
If I recall, they made some shitty (shady) non-football business deals with club money. Not sure if they were involved in the VW scandal or the tax evasion shit that Bayern’s board was around that time. That might’ve been a little after
I guess I should have phrased it better. With how the club is presented, you would think there'd have been local/regional money that could have stepped up and helped, or they could have improved the sponsorship side. Add into that they are/were publicly listed makes it even crazier
I want sports but I hope they don’t push for this and it leads to a wave of infections within the clubs(players + staff and others)
Yeah I’m good with calling this season a wash and starting fresh, which took me a while to accept with Bayern still alive for a treble run. Not worth it.
If you’re in a position to start a new season, you might as well finish this season given where we’re at in the season.
If Bundesliga can get started at the start of May and it’s not that much longer than a winter break, I could agree to that. For leagues that are looking at a much longer break still, to me that just doesn’t seem like it’ll be a true reflection of this season if they’re taking as long or longer than they would in between typical seasons.
If they delay the transfer window/extend contracts I don’t see why it wouldn’t given the circumstances.
You don’t see why it wouldn’t feel like a true representation of the 2019-20 season to have a 3+ month break before the final 9 matches are played?
I don’t see how it fundamentally is a problem. Is it ideal? Of course not. We’re in a pandemic where this has been deemed required. This is also a sport with a transfer window in the middle of the season, where a club could hypothetically purchase a new starting 11 halfway through a regular season. I just don’t see how anyone can be ok with 75% of a season played and then just pretending it never happened, even irrespective of the impacts on champions league spots, pro/rel, etc.
I am not for it being wiped off the records. I just personally don’t agree that taking a 3 month break would be any more a true reflection of the season than if they just said this is the final table. That isn’t ideal either, I don’t love any option really
I just think you’re kidding yourself if you think: A: the table after 25 games, with teams playing an uneven schedule, is the final table is no less true than: B: although we had to take a 2-3 month break, we played every game in the schedule and here is the final table
After review, I’ve decided we should just call it now with the current standings. I feel that it’s an accurate breakdown of the league.
Germany is the one nation I’d expect to do the correct thing with whatever advice experts give them. Their population respects science and learned doctors.
As soon as society starts opening back up, specifically people heavily taking public transit to work, fans should start being allowed in again (in my uneducated opinion). What’s really the difference between packed metro cars/buses and full stadiums?
Healthcare providers need to take public transit to take care of the overwhelmed hospitals and don’t need to unnecessarily get exposed to and from. Going to a sporting match is voluntary.
I mean when the majority of the public is back working in the office/around the city and therefore taking transit. But maybe it’ll be home office until a vaccine.