Can Spurs halt RB Leipzig’s despised march? - The Mail & Guardian

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The Germans might not be making many friends back home but who needs them when you’re making history?

are not having a good time of it at the moment. On the back of consecutive defeats in the league, they travel to RB Leipzig on Tuesday with the ambition of overturning a 1-0 deficit in the Champions League and potentially setting off on a path to save their season. Yet, as engrossing as the travails of José Mourinho and Co may be, it is their opponents who are arguably writing a far more important chapter in the context of European football.

Leipzig fans will be used to it by now. Since the club was founded in 2009, they’ve had to endure countless acts of protest: from multiple peaceful boycotts of their stadium by the away support, to far uglier threats of violence such as a full-on projectile attack by Borussia Dortmund ultras.

German clubs are forbidden from incorporating their sponsors into their names; not to worry we’ll call the team “Rasenballsport Leipzig” . RB Leipzig for short. Also, in Germany all supporters must be offered a stake in the team and a potential veto on important issues; easily solved by setting membership rates at exorbitant and unrealistic levels.

. At 32, he is one of the youngest coaches in the professional game and his verve appears the ideal complement to his club’s mission of disrupting the spaces around them.

 

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