Sinsheim (dpa) - The Bundesliga game between TSG 1899 Hoffenheim and FC Bayern Munich has been interrupted twice because of massive insults against Dietmar Hopp.
After referee Christian Dingert released the game for the guests at the 6: 0 stand at the 77th minute, the two teams only played the ball back and forth to protest the action of the Bayern fans.
The supporters of Munich had previously held up appropriate posters against Hopp, so that referee Dingert suspended the game. All Bayern officials around coach Hansi Flick and CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, as well as the players, hurried to the bend in the second incident, talking wildly gesticulating to the fans. Dingert sent all players into the cabin. The second break lasted 20 minutes.
Rummenigge had gone to the TSG majority owner Hopp in the grandstand during the first interruption and hugged him. The Bayern fans alluded to the poster with a collective penalty for the Borussia Dortmund fans who had massively insulted Hopp several times and are therefore not allowed to travel to Sinsheim for away games in the next two years.
The BVB game against SC Freiburg was also interrupted due to insults against Hopp. At the beginning of the second half, the Dortmund fans started chanting songs. Therefore, referee Robert Hartmann had the game interrupted for a few minutes and ordered a stadium announcement threatening to stop the game.