Football brings sporting surprises, which is why we all love it so much. In the forthcoming cup final, SC Freiburg and a club called Rasenball Leipzig will duel this season, whereby the monster lawn ball was only used because the names of sponsors or other companies are not allowed to appear in the club name in our country. Everyone knows that RB doesn’t actually stand for lawn ball, but for the canned drink from Fuschl am See. In Leipzig, this construct has been preparing to conquer the football world since 2009. It has not yet worked out with the championship title in this country, but it is now the third time in the cup final. With the cup victory it was nothing, so that the billionaire Dietrich M. continues to look into an empty showcase.
As is not unusual at big finals, scarves and all kinds of fan articles with the names and logos of the finalists are distributed among the fans. Not so this year. SC Freiburg has forbidden the opponents in the final to use the Breisgauer logo and will not take part in anything where their own logo can be seen together with that of the Bulls.
The whole republic cheered because of SC Freiburg’s steadfast moral statement. The whole republic? No, because a certain Mr. Mintzlaff, chairman of the board in Leipzig, speaks in a Sunday talk show about the lack of respect the people of Freiburg have for his employer. Surprisingly, he also describes RB Leipzig as a “very transparent club”. With such remarks, the common fan wonders whether he should resist angrily or slap his thighs with laughter.
Respect and transparency are the keywords. Where was RB Leipzig’s respect for all the other teams in the lowlands of Saxon football in 2009 when they started playing in the Oberliga with a purchased starting right? You didn’t start in the district league, but at least in the fifth league. And where is the transparency of this construct when it comes to disclosing your own club structures? Neither the association’s statutes nor regulations for association membership can be found on the homepage. Transparency looks different. And even if formally »50 plus one« is adhered to, the forefathers of this regulation certainly imagined it differently than it is practiced in Leipzig.
No, this construct will never be a normal club. And in Leipzig you have to put up with it when fans keep emphasizing this or when clubs don’t want to see their own logo next to the one from Leipzig.
»Sport free!« from the fan advocate.
