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Matt Ford
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Journalist | 🇩🇪 & 🇪🇺 football, sports politics & fan culture | @guardian @bbcsport @TheNewEuropean @11freunde_de @sofoot @theipaper @dwnews | @uwsmag 🇾🇪
00:00- Bayern Munich’s travelling support make their point on ticket pricing.
- History. Bayer 04 Leverkusen are German campions for the first ever time Bayern Munich’s 11-year dominance of the #Bundesliga is broken by Xabi Alonso’s Werkself.
00:00 - After Stuttgart lost to Leverkusen in the cup, Deniz Undav said they were the two best teams in Germany, prompting some laughter. Now, after VfB finished 2nd: “Yeah, you all made fun of me! So now you can say sorry! Just say: sorry Deniz, we were wrong!” x.com/WuseligerUfan/…
- 🇩🇪 Bayern Munich & Borussia Dortmund in the #UCL semifinal - and they’re not even the two best teams in Germany this season. Not bad for a league which is apparently being held back by the 50+1 rule and desperately needs private equity investment to compete. There is another way.
- The only quote that matters from last night.
- Crystal Palace's support at Wembley, led by the Holmesdale Fanatics, has been absolutely superb, just like in 2016 against United. A lesson in active, independent fan culture - and in an English environment so hostile to it. Huge admiration. Ultras. 👏
- Xabi Alonso: “This title also belongs to my predecessors: Christoph Daum, Klaus Toppmöller, Roger Schmidt and many others. I’m proud to be part of Bayer Leverkusen history.” #bundesliga
- Modelled on Borussia Dortmund’s south stand, where a season ticket costs €215 (£184). #BVB Cheapest ticket at Tottenham? £795. All the atmospheric potential of a huge, single-tiered end behind the goal rendered irrelevant by exclusionary pricing. Looks great on TV though.A stand that is bigger than Bournemouth’s stadium.
- Officials had to use an an angle grinder to cut the bicycle locks which HSV ultras fastened to the goalposts on Friday night. Yet a glance at the Hannover away end might have helped: "The solution is 50+01." According to HSV ultras, the code "50+01" would have opened the locks.
- “15,000 deaths for 5,760 minutes of football - shame on you” Huge anti-#Qatar World Cup protests in the #Bundesliga this afternoon, including at #HerthaBSC & Borussia #Dortmund. 📷 @FasziFankurve #bvb #BoycottQatar2022
