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01-03-2020, 01:24
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The thing is, unless I'm mistaken, Bayern fans didn't display the crosshairs image. So why the extreme reaction? I guess there are many things that are different about British and German football culture, but to use a relevant example, I'm pretty sure worse things have been chanted and written on banners about Mike Ashley than Dietmar Hopp. Was there really any need for such histrionics from the players and coaches to what's almost a run-of-the-mill occurrence in this country?
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01-03-2020, 01:48
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I guess it's because it is Bayern Munich, the one German club that every football fan will know. It brings more negative coverage to German football when it's Bayern Munich involved so the response is bigger, rightly or wrongly.
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I suppose that makes sense, although there's more than a touch of the old Streisand Effect about it. After all, the one way you can absolutely guarantee that this will become international news and bring negative coverage to German football is for all the players to flounce off the pitch in unison, and then spend the last quarter of an hour doing an impromptu re-enactment of the Shame of Gijon.
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01-03-2020, 14:59
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Well Bayern Munich is known as FC Hollywood for a reason.
Now some of the Union Berlin ultras have held up a banner. The match was paused for less than a minute while an announcement was made and then play continued.
Now two more banners with Hopp's face in crosshairs on one and HURENSOHN printed on another one. Players taken off the pitch.