@matt4d.bsky.social
Freelance journalist based in Germany | German & European football, sports politics & fan culture | The Guardian, The New European, London Evening Standard, BBC Sport, DW Sports, 11Freunde, SoFoot, etc | United We Stand 🇾🇪
@matt4d.bsky.socialMeanwhile over in the Best League In The World™… 114 reasons why 50+1 must not only stay but be anchored more firmly than ever in German football. The alternative:
@matt4d.bsky.socialSC Freiburg: Tabellenführer
A fitting end to very decent #Bundesliga weekend. Fußball 😎
@matt4d.bsky.socialSaïd. El. Mala.
@matt4d.bsky.socialFT: Borussia Dortmund 2-2 Werder Bremen
Four years on from Oliver Burke‘s spectacular winner here, Werder Bremen produce another late Westfalenstadion comeback, Füllkrug with a 92nd-min header.
BVB, having led through Svensson & Schlotterbeck, lose their 100% record. Wild second half.
@matt4d.bsky.socialStill better 😂
@matt4d.bsky.socialHT: Dortmund 0-0 Bremen
BVB over 70% possession but only one real chance, Maxi Beier forcing a reflex save from Hein. Best chance of the game was at the other end though when Reis dragged a shot wide instead of passing in a 3v2 situation.
Travelling Werder support loud and melodic 👌
@matt4d.bsky.socialRight, thank god that’s over. International football really is bobbins.
Borussia Dortmund vs. Werder Bremen
Freitag. Flutlicht. Fußball.
@sbienkowski.bsky.socialReposted by @matt4d.bsky.socialHow the Man City scandal impacts the Bundesliga and how it has been viewed in Germany.
Tremendous podcast from @manuelveth.bsky.social and @matt4d.bsky.social:
@matt4d.bsky.social🇩🇪 On the terraces during the international break:
⚖️ 50+1 latest
🔴 Düsseldorf: Fortuna, Flingern, finances
🌍 International friendships:
🇩🇰 HSV vs. Copenhagen
🇫🇷 Saarbrücken vs. Nancy
🇭🇷 Rijeka vs. Union Berlin
Full stories on Gegenpressing:
@matt4d.bsky.social🎙️ Achtung, @gegenpressing.bsky.social subscribers!
We're doing a couple of "On The Terraces" podcasts this week so if you have any Qs on the following, fire away:
- Stories from the "On the terraces" newsletter
- Anything else on German fan culture
- The Man city scandal in relation to Germany
@josimarfootball.bsky.socialReposted by @matt4d.bsky.socialNy! New!
Manchester City is run by, and in the interests of, the United Arab Emirates, a state whose appetite for conflict and violence is matched by its contempt for rules and norms.
@matt4d.bsky.socialSome wild Premier League takes on Sky's "Sunday Supplement" this weekend. "The league needs city*" - Nope, it was absolutely fine without abu dhabi "city* fans have done nothing wrong" - Manchester thanks you, Sheikh Mansour ... Pannick on the streets of London ... "A big club like Juventus" - 😂
@matt4d.bsky.socialAppropriately on the "Tag der Deutschen Einheit" (German Unity Day), a story which shows that, 36 years on, significant differences between east and west still remain.
Socially. Economically. Politically. And in football.
@matt4d.bsky.socialFootball fans, fan groups, fanzines, fan culture have never been more important. If the last week hasn’t shown that, then what will? Get involved.
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The alternative is just across town.
@matt4d.bsky.social🇾🇪 New United We Stand cover
Buy the fanzines and support an independent, critical, Mancunian fan culture which holds its own club to account because it loves it, rather than welcoming state ownership with open arms and parroting conspiracy theories to distract from industrial-level fraud. #mufc 🇾🇪
@archiert1.bsky.socialReposted by @matt4d.bsky.socialShoutout to @matt4d.bsky.social on this. Big issue in German football right now. Also credit to Matt for his persistence in trying to get this story published.
www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
@matt4d.bsky.socialJa dann muss er halt mit Djamal teilen.
@matt4d.bsky.socialDer darf bei mir auf die Couch 👍🏼
@germanatportsmouth.bsky.socialReposted by @matt4d.bsky.social'The Unpromotables': Germany's league champions who can't go up. There are five 4th-tier Regionalligen in the German football pyramid, but only four promotion places to the third division. How should this problem be resolved? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... via @matt4d.bsky.social
@matt4d.bsky.social1. FC Lok Leipzig captain Djamal Ziane has won the league three times - but he's never been promoted.
Feature for BBC Sport on "Germany's Unpromotables," the growing campaign for league reform and lingering disparities between east and west.
