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Football returns in Germany: what’s different?

Some things do not change. Bayern Munich winning, Erling Haaland scoring and VAR marginally ruling fractions of shoulders offside. Football is back in Germany but not as we know it. Empty stadiums, socially distant substitutes and elbow taps have become the new norm.  Football is back but it has changed. The Bundesliga, not the Premier […]

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Could play-offs be the way to stop Bayern’s dominance?

The former Bayer Leverkusen chairman Wolfgang Holzhäuser is the most recent figure to propose reform to the Bundesliga in order to prevent potential competitive stagnation. German domestic football has been undeniably dominated by Bayern Munich, as the Bavarian club have regularly won the title since the league’s inception in the 1960s. In total, they have […]

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Europe’s refugee crisis offers football a chance to show it’s heart

We live in a time where trends veers ever further away from traditional power structures of government and state, leaving a vacuum that is increasingly filled by soft power alternatives. As Europe stares in abject horror as the refugee crisis both state and society too long disregarded becomes impossible to ignore, it is little wonder […]