Dortmund Fan Club London Podcast of the fan club founded in 2013
Sports:Football
Thank you for your interest in the BvB London fan community 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 this wonderful club more accessible to non-German speakers but the podcast is also of interest to German football fans who speak English.
1. Ticket pricing: Always a hot topic is the cost of actually going to watch your club. In England we are lead to believe that German football is a lot more affordable. With Arsenal charging over £2000 for a season ticket almost 8 times as much as a season ticket at Borussia Dortmund (€230) is English football pricing us out of the game?
2. TV games and fixture times: Pre COVID football across Europe has been moving games for TV with little regard for match going fans. There have been protests in Germany against Monday night matches but they persist in the second tier 2 Liga, is fixtures scheduling a problem fans in the Uk and Germany share? What can we do about it?
3. Matches during COVID-19: Its good to see fans back in German football albeit tiny numbers of locally based fans. Whilst in England you can only attend football in the 7th tier in crowds up to 600. Is this a sacrifice worth taking? How have the steps Germany has done to get fans back and how its been received? What about piped crowd sound is it a valued innovation or just another gimmick? Does football even matter when people are losing their lives?
4. Hardcore fans and ultras: In England we see Ultras not as a hooligan but as a group that take their support to the next level organising massive choreographies and displays in grounds, organised fans that have influence with the clubs to an enviable level but is it too much? Who are the Ultras really and what do they do? Is fan culture dead in the UK?
5. Safe standing: How is it seen in Germany? Is standing just a cheaper option or the option of choice? Does it improve the atmosphere? Should we bring this back in the UK?
6. Atmosphere in the grounds: Atmospheres at Premier league games are often dull for many reasons. Germany is seen a leading light in match day atmosphere, is the case and if so is working for German football and what are we getting wrong in England?
7. Safety at games for away fans: Away fans in England are often treated as second class citizens by match day stewards and police but it’s a lot safer now to attend games as an away fan in the UK than it was 20 years ago but German fans travel to domestic away games in greater numbers and the rail travel is free how does it work? With half of clubs being able to survive on media income alone do fans still count in the Premier League?
Episode 09 ’Happy Birthday dear Delron’ The Winger: Guest Delron Buckley (BVB 2005-9)
Episode 8 Borussia Dortmund London Fan Club Podcast A fan takeover - The Portsmouth FC story with guest then Chairman Iain McInnes (2013-17)
Episode 7 ’We had a great team spirit’ The Left-back a defenders story: Guest Niclas Jensen (BVB 2003-05)
Episode 6 Football finances we contrast BVB and Bundesliga with the Premier League with guest Kieran Maguire of ’The Price of Football’ podcast and LIverpool University .
Episode 5 Derby time a talk with Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling author of ’Die Chronik’ a history of BVB and BBC Sport journalist Constantin Eckner
Episode 4 ’Talking Arsenal and BVB’ with the Arsenal FC Supporters Liaison officer Mark Brindle
Episode 3 'YNWA a Liverpool FC and BVB special' with Matt Addison of the Liverpool Echo and Die Zeit's Constantin Eckner
Episode 2 ’9 in a row’ a Celtic and Borussia Dortmund special with Joe O’Rourke general secretary Celtic Supporters Association.
Episode 1 'Football in the time of Corona' with Daily Mail football writer Adam Shergold and Jay Crame of Crystal Palace Fanzine The Eagles Beak
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