Dortmund Fan Club London Podcast of the fan club founded in 2013
Sports:Football
Welcome to the BvB London fan club podcast as every week the focus of the show will be on exploring a facet of Borussia Dortmund life by talking to experts and former participants of the club's life, like players, fans, journalists who have covered the club and functionaries and experts and thus make our BvB more accessible to non-German speakers in particular.
On today's episode, Ben is joined by Mark Sheppard to explore the incredible story of 2008 FA Cup winners Portsmouth FC and the crisis that led to the 2013 fan takeover and find out why 50+1 the regulation in the Bundesliga that means German clubs remain majority-owned by their members could never, almost never, work in the UK and what it means for German football in light of clubs like RB Leipzig.
Special guests on the show are the former chairman of Portsmouth FC Iain McInnes, now the Chairman of Southern Football League team Gosport Borough FC (7th Tier Verbandsliga in Germany) the 2014 League trophy finalists that were founded in 1944, that play at the 4500 capacity Privett Park stadium. Iain runs a business in the electronics industry and himself played for Portsmouth U17 in his youth.
Also on the show is Colin Farmery a former board director of Portsmouth FC and a journalist who has written for Uk publications When Saturday Comes and The Guardian he is currently head of communications at Gosport Borough FC.
Both are long term Portsmouth fans since the 1960s and were instrumentally involved in the ownership of the club during the era of the ownership by the 'Pompey Supporters Trust' a takeover that saw thousands of fans come together to buy the club after a series of disastrous takeovers that pushed the club into administration twice.
We also contrast the financial crisis at Portsmouth FC with that at BvB of 2005 and find out what role the fans played in saving both clubs and laying the foundation for the future. They explain what happened, how it worked, why it was needed and what their roles in the takeover were.
As on every show the hosts and the guests also share stories of their visits to Westfalenstadion and what makes BvB, the club we love BVB.
We hope you enjoy the show, send us your comments, share the show with friends and remember for all the news and to apply for tickets to join the London BvB community at our Stammtisch at our online group at Facebook.com/borussiadortmundfanclubengland or come to watch a game at our meet-up Stammtisch at the Naughty Bar in Cleveland street during the season.
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Episode 49 ’Bundesliga vs Premier, raining on Klopp’s parade and life at the Ashton’ with Switzerland A international, Bristol City Centre-back Timm Klose
Episode 48 A joint podcast with the ’Outside Write’ podcast: How can football be more sustainable and reduce it’s impact on the environment?
Episode 47 German language episode Es sollte anders kommen! Sebastian Tyrala Trainer TuS Bövinghausen, Polnischer A Nationalspieler, BVB Mittelfeldspieler 2006-8
Episode 46 ’Danke BVB’ with Stoke City midfielder, Bosnia-Herzegovina international Mario Vrančić (BVB II 11/12)
Episode 45 Bundesliga in Europe in 21/22 with guest Sky Sports TV Germany presenter Sascha Bacinski
Episode 44: FIFA World Cup Draw special: Guests Deutsche Welle TV Africa correspondent Lolade Adewuyi and Sebastian Schächter, CEO Schächter Sports, former Germany U20 midfielder.
Episode 43 ’Wir sind alle am Borsigsplatz geboren’ English-language interview with recording artist and life-long BVB fan Andy Schade
Episode 42: Highs and Lows of Season 21/22 guest Bundesliga Channel match commentator Phil Bonney
Episode 41 ’Revierderby ist etwas besonderes” Mit Gast Norbert Eilenfeldt (Arminia Bielefeld, 1 FC Kaiserslautern)
Episode 40 ’ Die Hohenbuschei’ German language episode with guest FC Augsburg defender Felix Götze (BVB 2013-15)
Episode 39 German language episode: Guest BVB Fan and author Bruno Reekers ’50 years following the Black and yellows’
Episode 38 with Christoph Zimmermann Norwich City Centre-back (BVB U23s 2015-17)‘ The Premier League is intense and uncompromising‘
Episode 37 with Cedric van der Gun (BVB 05/06, Ajax 1999-03) BVB v Ajax Champions League Preview
Episode 36 ’ You don’t win the Bundesliga by mistake’ with guest Sunday Oliseh, defensive midfielder, coach, broadcaster and Olympic gold medallist with Nigeria.
Episode 35 The hidden force on the sidelines:.German language interview Massimo Mariotti (BVB academy coach and interpreter 2003-2018)
Episode 34 guest Hamadi Al Ghaddioui VFB Stuttgart Centreforward (BVB U23 16-17) ’I grew up playing street football’.
German language episode - Episode 33 Guest Knut Reinhardt (BVB 1991-99) - Knuuuuuuuut!
Episode 32 Daniel Farke's 'Die Kanarienvögel' talking the Dortmund-Norwich connection with Ben Ambrose host of 'Norwich Talk' the Norwich City podcast
Episode 31 ’Bomber, Bomber, Bomber’ German Language episode guest Hartmut Wiegand BVB Kitman and coach driver 1982-2002 ’BVB is a Ruhrgebiet club, that’s how it should always be’.
Episode 30 Pokalfinale preview, season review and the wonder that is Edin Terzic with Bundesliga Presenter Abel Meszaros Sport 1 TV Hungary, Talking Fussball
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