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It was the Cup-season 07/08 when we first encountered that team from down south in our beloved Westfalenstadion. The result then? A 3:1 victory for us and the next round in the Cup. Since then Hoffenheim has managed to climb up to the first Bundesliga and made us go mad every once in a while.The Dortmund fans, meanwhile, raised the roof for their team, even in
defeat. It showed immense
class, or emboldened mass drunkenness, or
perhaps some combination of the two. Which only
made me love them more.
London Evening Standard
Only recently Don from the US of A became a football fan. Whereas his boys decided to go along with the mainstream, Don decided his club would be mighty Borussia Dortmund. He started a blog (check it here - 
On the 4th of July 1971, 
The preconditions for the protest of BVB-supporters in front of the Imtech Arena in Hamburg, the follower of the Volksparkstadion, could have been better: Pouring rain, freezing wind, and round about 5 degrees made me expect a maximum of three to ten other protesters who would find their way to the meeting point at the entrance of the visitor block. Marc Quambusch, spokesman of „Kein Zwanni" ("no twenty" - in reference to a twenty Euro bill for a standing room ticket), was later asked about the circumstances of the protest and answered: „I can't even remember when was the last time that my feet were this wet!" In the end, a remarkably number of 600 to 800 supporters in black and yellow met at the stadium, having their radios with them to be able to listen to the game at least. Although the official statement said that the stadium was sold out, it has to be said that this surely wasn't the case. Lots and lots of tickets were still on sale before and during the game.
While I was writing my "looking back onto the year 2011" text, I remembered all the great moments we had during that year.
The start of the second half of the Bundesliga season will be a very special one. Borussia plays away at Hamburg but has to make it without a big part of their supporters. Due to the expensive ticket prices in Hamburg, the "Kein Zwanni" campaign called out for a boycott. This is why most of the fans of the Ballspielverein will travel to Hamburg, however, will stay outside the stadium equipped with several radios to only hear what is going on inside of the stadium. Additionally, the ultras of the HSV will remain silent from minutes 46 to 55 to express the feeling of having a football match without any fans due to high ticket prices. Football must remain affordable, for all!
Over the last 
We have intensively covered the initiative for affordable football ticket prices “Kein Zwanni” (“no twenty” - in reference to a 20 Euro bill for a standing room ticket). More recently, the initiative and several fan-organizations of our beloved BVB have called for a boycott of the first game of the new year in Hamburg to protest the unfair pricing.
"Welcome to matchday number 35 of the season 2010/2012" was the comment of our netradio commentators when we played our first game of this season against Hamburg in January. When we were in the stadium on that fifth of August we could hardly believe what we saw on that pitch. Surely we were at least a bit concerned about how our team would continue without Nuri Sahin. With Gündogan, Perisic, Leitner and Löwe we had gotten some great new players but still, we all knew that Sahin played a big role in our game. It seemed as if our concerns were absolutely unnecessary. We played, as Nobby and Boris had pointed out in the netradio, as if nothing had ever changed. The result was a 3:1 victory at home against Hamburg and we could barely believe that we would continue to be as happy as we were the previous season. 2011 promised to continue being a wonderful year. However, it came differently.
It was those six minutes in January, six minutes that changed everything. We had whitnessed the probably most astonishing first half of a season there had ever been. But Bayern wouldn't have been Bayern if they hadn't declared that the second half would be their half now and that us people from Dortmund should watch out and realize that there can only be one team in Germany dominant, successful and in the end: Championship winner.
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