Affordable tickets. Sensible pyro policy. Greater data protection for fans. Most matchgoing fans in Germany would agree with these core demands. Who is representing them in this struggle?
A great read as always Thom, German football really is the envy of football fans in the UK.
May I perhaps propose a 6th amendment to your list?;
6. If you reside in the country of the league you follow, all games of the major league should be available for viewing at a reasonable cost, say a monthly fee capped at £50 p/month.
Latest figures for prem viewers show a cost of £1270 p/year / £105 p/month (£158 if you only count the typical 8 month season) across all necessary subscriptions and you can't even watch roughly 110/380 of the games.
For example in Australia, all PL & CL games are available for around £40 p/month where a viewer is roughly 10,500 miles away from the action...
An idealist view of which I see no route to ever happening yet we can all hope right?
A great read as always Thom, German football really is the envy of football fans in the UK.
May I perhaps propose a 6th amendment to your list?;
6. If you reside in the country of the league you follow, all games of the major league should be available for viewing at a reasonable cost, say a monthly fee capped at £50 p/month.
Latest figures for prem viewers show a cost of £1270 p/year / £105 p/month (£158 if you only count the typical 8 month season) across all necessary subscriptions and you can't even watch roughly 110/380 of the games.
For example in Australia, all PL & CL games are available for around £40 p/month where a viewer is roughly 10,500 miles away from the action...
An idealist view of which I see no route to ever happening yet we can all hope right?
The price of these services, and the fact it's spread across so many different platforms, is getting out of hand. Completely agreed.
€53 at Hansa Rostock is crazy
I couldn't believe it! You can get a seated ticket for €25, but I think it's restricted view.