Where do MK Franchise come into this? Leipzig haven't just taken over from a team in a different city have they?
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Pinkie Brown
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RB Leipzig are hated with a passion by most fans in Germany. Think MK Dons on steroids. Their manipulation of the 50+1 rule is particularly contentious. Protests against them have been quite innovative in recent years. Everything from a silent ten minute protest at the start of a game at a Union Berlin game with all home fans donning black bin liners, to a severed cows head being hurled at the Leipzig keeper during a DFB Pokal (German FA Cup) fixture at Dynamo Dresden earlier this season! How the fans managed to smuggle a cows head past the stewards is anyone's guess? I suspect an inside job. Dynamo have copped a 40'000 euro fine plus their Ultra's block must be closed for one game in the future. Most of us here despise half & half scarves. However, when Leipzig played in Koln earlier this season, 1000's of the local ultra block holding up unofficial scarves with 'F*** RB Leipzig' was an impressive sight.
Pinkie Brown
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Yes. They bought a lower league team from a small town in Saxony, changed the name and shifted them to Leipzig. Pretty comparable to MK.
happypig
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What's the 50+1 rule and what have they done ?
True they don't. The word 'hated' pushed me into early morning rant mode. Bl***dy Beagle we're looking after decided 3am was time to get up, 2 trips into garden, made a bed out of the curtains, howled and whined and barked and scratched. Usually good as gold.
This has left me with only irrational thoughts. NSC here I come!
Austrian Gull
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Pinkie Brown has summed it up pretty well.
They have long circumvented the rules in Austria and seem to be doing similar things in Germany.
I do like how the RB Leipzig- Hoffenheim is now known as "El Plastico."
They have long circumvented the rules in Austria and seem to be doing similar things in Germany.
I do like how the RB Leipzig- Hoffenheim is now known as "El Plastico."
Wish I'd read that before I ate Humble Pie in front of Trig. F*** I'm going out.
Pinkie Brown
Wir Sind das Volk
There ya go. The two links below give you the drift. Far better and quicker than me explaining.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50+1_rule
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...become-the-most-hated-club-in-german-football
I assume you're joking, but if you were pulling the wool over my eyes I'd be none the wiser.
Good plan, I like it.
SussexSeahawk
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The Germans don't like big corporate machines ruining their game unlike here....Bayern were the closest but Leipzig are a different league when it comes to spending like the Man City's and Chelsea's of our league.
Well done those fans
Is this actually true? As far as I'm aware they haven't actually spent all that much money. Certainly far far less than Bayern. The objection of the fans seems mainly to be that they are a corportate club that isn't considered a 'real club'. More comparable with MK Dons than Man City really.
Woooooahh there. I'm going to have to stop you RIGHT there.
The 'RB' in 'RB Liepzig' absolutely does NOT stand for 'Red Bull'.
That would be against DFB rules.
half time scores
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Indeed you are officially correct sir, I have a German friend who always refers to them as Red Bull in a derogatory fashion.
I've never been chastised by a moderator before, do I have to and sit in the naughty cupboard?
Uter
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They moved 6.5 miles. Not much more than the distance between the Goldstone and Falmer. Markranstadt could almost be considered a suburb of Leipzig. I think the comparison with MK Dons is a bit misleading.