As of: February 11, 2024, 5:10 p.m
By: Stefan Schmid
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“Our Curve” sets the conditions for an end to fan protests in the Bundesliga.
A representative explains the motives behind the crosshair banner against Martin Kind.
Munich/Hamburg - In addition to the top game in the Bundesliga, the experts in Sport1
's "One-two" also focused
on the ever-escalating fan protests against the DFL's decision to favor a major investor in the Bundesliga.
For this, Jost Peter, the board member of the fan representation “Our Curve e.
V.”, connected live to the studio.
The motto in the football talk is not just to talk about the people involved in the protests, but also with them.
Directed against Martin Kind: Hanover fans polarize with protest
In discussions with the experts present, Peter was able to respond to allegations that had already been made many times and take a stand on what was necessary to end the protests.
It was unavoidable that the controversial form of protest by Hanover fans at the game in Hamburg against investor Martin Kind was brought up.
They had displayed a polarizing crosshair banner with Kind's head depicted.
The crosshair banner against Martin Kind can be read in different ways.
During the game between Hamburg and Hanover, a fan also managed to get onto the field.
© IMAGO/Cathrin Müller/MiS and Justus Stegemann
Fan representatives demand a public review of the investor vote
A key point of the current protests in German stadiums is the sometimes opaque processes surrounding the investor vote at the DFL meeting in December and before.
Peter demanded that “everything that happens now takes place in public.”
Martin Kind plays a special role in this.
“The lack of clarity about how Mr. Kind voted and whether it even led to a majority” must now finally be brought to the table, said Peter.
The background is the voting behavior of Hanover managing director Kind.
He was allegedly instructed by the club to vote against the entry of an investor.
Whether he followed this instruction is questioned because all clubs that voted “no” or abstained have now communicated this publicly.
The question therefore arises as to whether the child has violated the 50+1 rule.
Peter at least suspects that “the 50+1 rule was broken” with the secret vote.
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Fan protests in the Bundesliga: “Our Curve” calls for “reasonable suggestions”
Most recently, the DFL made fan representatives an offer to talk, but they rejected it.
Peter also points out that the fans' point of criticism was what they believed was the implicit message in the DFL offer.
In addition, the offer was made public in the first step and only then was it transmitted to the fans.
“In this offer to talk that was sent by the DFL, the message was actually: 'Dear fans, you didn't understand something exactly.
We want to explain this to you again,'” said Peter in the “double pass”.
But that is not the case.
Rather, the fans would question the voting and communication process and “clearly complain that members of the clubs were not included.”
Since these three points were not mentioned in the offer of conversation, the fans rejected it.
However, they don't want to completely refuse to talk to the league.
“If there are sensible proposals for talks, these protests will stop,” Peter said.
Fan representative defends form of crosshair protest against Martin Kind
The action of the Hanover Annex in Hamburg showed that the organized fans also seem to cross borders in their forms of protest.
However, as Peter emphasized, this protest was put into context.
The provocative protest of the Hanover fans in Hamburg.
The banners in the second tier are often left out of the interpretation.
© IMAGO / Eibner
It was a way “of how I can interrupt the game without tennis balls and that is based on the DFB’s three-step plan”.
To do this, the banners above the crosshair banners would also have to be taken into account.
Among other things, it read “consistent action in the event of personalized threats of violence”.
Fan protest at Hannover 96: Martin Kind threatens consequences
According to the interpretation of the fan representatives, the crossing of the border of the crosshairs was a well-calculated border crossing that was intended to provoke the abandonment of the game, which was verbalized by the banner.
The game was not stopped, but Kind now threatened consequences against the creators of the banner.
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