After Saudi Arabia resolved a dispute with Qatari broadcaster BeIN Sports, a Saudi-led consortium has taken over Newcastle United. The purchase condemned by human rights campaigners could not happen in Germany.
After Saudi Arabia resolved a dispute with Qatari broadcaster BeIN Sports, a Saudi-led consortium has completed a takeover of Newcastle United. Such deals are common in England's Premier League – but not in Germany.
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European Super League: How Germany s 50+1 rule kept Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund out
Football was rocked this week as 12 elite clubs attempted to break away from their domestic leagues and form a so-called Super League. But Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund were not involved. This is why.
Barely 48 hours after its initial announcement on Sunday night, the proposed European Super League began to unravel on Tuesday night as the six English clubs involved began to pull out.
First Chelsea and Manchester City, then Arsenal and Tottenham, and finally the ring leaders, American-owned Liverpool and Manchester United.
By Wednesday morning, the whole project had collapsed and Andrea Agnelli, Juventus chairman and a chief architect of the coup, was lamenting shamelessly that I don t think our industry is a particularly sincere, trustworthy or reliable one …
Bundesliga 2020: A year without fan culture
For most of the year, German football has had to do without one of its greatest assets: its fans. What have Germany s football supporters been up to, and what long-term effects could the pandemic have on fan culture?
Borussia Dortmund s fans raise an elaborate choreography Dortmund: big city, my dream! read the banner across the front of the
Südtribüne, the famous Yellow Wall at Borussia Dortmund s
Westfalenstadion.
Behind it, a gigantic hand-painted tapestry depicting the Dortmund skyline and a massive municipal coat of arms. In the background, 24,000 fans held aloft plastic sheets to show the red-and-white colors of the city, which were then flipped to become the black-and-yellow of Borussia Dortmund, and the city eagle was replaced by the club crest.