Matt Ford

🟡 Hans-Joachim Watzke is stepping down after 20 years as Borussia Dortmund CEO 🟡 He insists he's leaving the club "stronger than ever" financially - but is frustrated by the team's current #Bundesliga struggles 🟡 Exclusive interview for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Ballon d'Ost > Ballon d'Or Glückwunsch an Djamal Ziane! Ostfußballer des Jahres! 🥳 www.mdr.de/sport/sport-...

1. FC Köln 0-0 FC Schalke 04 A truly terrible game of football. Hope Soufiane El Faouzi and Robin Gosens are ok after an ugly clash of heads. Blood everywhere. Both thankfully walked off the pitch (albeit Gosens with assistance) and both have been taken to hospital. Gute Besserung. #bundesliga

VfB Stuttgart 2-3 Bor. M’gladbach Stuttgart: 2nd in 2024, cup winners in 2025, 4th in 2026, drew with Atletico Madrid in Europe … Gladbach: P6, L6, 8:20 after six games, on brink of a league record. And now only 3pts behind Stuttgart … #bundesliga

⚽️ On the terraces: ✈️ BVB's European Odyssey: 🇳🇴 Bodø > 🇩🇪 Berlin > 🇦🇿 Baku 🔴 Union Berlin: Teen Spirit Köpenick 🎾 SC Freiburg protest in Leverkusen ⚔️ Derbies in Munich & Leipzig 🔴 UCL: VfB Stuttgart choreo Full stories in a packed Gegenpressing newsletter: gegenpressingpodcast.com/p/on-the-ter...

Manchester in the area. We're too wet for Como. The purgatory continues. #mufc 🇾🇪

⚽️ On the terraces: ✈️ BVB's European Odyssey: 🇳🇴 Bodø > 🇩🇪 Berlin > 🇦🇿 Baku 🔴 Union Berlin: Teen Spirit Köpenick 🎾 SC Freiburg protest in Leverkusen ⚔️ Derbies in Munich & Leipzig 🔴 UCL: VfB Stuttgart choreo Full stories in a packed Gegenpressing newsletter: gegenpressingpodcast.com/p/on-the-ter...

SSC Napoli 4-3 FK Bodø/Glimt (McTominay x2 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇾🇪) #europapokal #ucl

🇩🇪 On the terraces in Germany this week: 🟢 Gladbach's derby debacle 🔵 Bochum's bouncing ban 🪦 Magdeburg commemorate Hannes as police reopen investigation 🌋 One choreo to rule them all: 1. FC Heidenheim Full stories on Gegenpressing: gegenpressingpodcast.com/p/on-the-ter...

Manchester in the area. The pride of all Europe. #mufc 🇾🇪

A reminder that Manchester City's UAE owners are playing footsy with the UK far-right, have been credibly accused of torturing scores of UK citizens, deployed an assassin to UK soil, and probably hacked 10 Downing Street. And unlike Man City, we publish our evidence 👇 fairsq.org/petropopulis...

🇩🇪 Lots of #Bundesliga content on @gegenpressing.bsky.social: 🗞️ Monday Bulletin - free to read! - Fellhauer's record - Füllkrug hails Werder "characters" - BVB sloppiness - El Mala's derby heroics ➡️ gegenpressingpodcast.com/p/monday-bul... 🎙️ Sunday Night Club ➡️ gegenpressingpodcast.com/p/84-seconds

Meanwhile over in the Best League In The World™… 114 reasons why 50+1 must not only stay but be anchored more firmly than ever in German football. The alternative:

SC Freiburg: Tabellenführer A fitting end to very decent #Bundesliga weekend. Fußball 😎

Saïd. El. Mala. #bundesliga

FT: Borussia Dortmund 2-2 Werder Bremen Four years on from Oliver Burke‘s spectacular winner here, Werder Bremen produce another late Westfalenstadion comeback, Füllkrug with a 92nd-min header. BVB, having led through Svensson & Schlotterbeck, lose their 100% record. Wild second half. #bundesliga

HT: Dortmund 0-0 Bremen BVB over 70% possession but only one real chance, Maxi Beier forcing a reflex save from Hein. Best chance of the game was at the other end though when Reis dragged a shot wide instead of passing in a 3v2 situation. Travelling Werder support loud and melodic 👌 #bundesliga

Right, thank god that’s over. International football really is bobbins. Borussia Dortmund vs. Werder Bremen Freitag. Flutlicht. Fußball. #bundesliga

How the Man City scandal impacts the Bundesliga and how it has been viewed in Germany. Tremendous podcast from @manuelveth.bsky.social and @matt4d.bsky.social: gegenpressingpodcast.com/p/how-does-t...

🇩🇪 On the terraces during the international break: ⚖️ 50+1 latest 🔴 Düsseldorf: Fortuna, Flingern, finances 🌍 International friendships: 🇩🇰 HSV vs. Copenhagen 🇫🇷 Saarbrücken vs. Nancy 🇭🇷 Rijeka vs. Union Berlin Full stories on Gegenpressing: gegenpressingpodcast.com/p/on-the-ter...

🎙️ Achtung, @gegenpressing.bsky.social subscribers! We're doing a couple of "On The Terraces" podcasts this week so if you have any Qs on the following, fire away: - Stories from the "On the terraces" newsletter - Anything else on German fan culture - The Man city scandal in relation to Germany

Ny! New! Manchester City is run by, and in the interests of, the United Arab Emirates, a state whose appetite for conflict and violence is matched by its contempt for rules and norms. By @ncgeehan.bsky.social josimarfootball.com/2026/10/05/m...

Some wild Premier League takes on Sky's "Sunday Supplement" this weekend. "The league needs city*" - Nope, it was absolutely fine without abu dhabi "city* fans have done nothing wrong" - Manchester thanks you, Sheikh Mansour ... Pannick on the streets of London ... "A big club like Juventus" - 😂

Appropriately on the "Tag der Deutschen Einheit" (German Unity Day), a story which shows that, 36 years on, significant differences between east and west still remain. Socially. Economically. Politically. And in football. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Shoutout to @matt4d.bsky.social on this. Big issue in German football right now. Also credit to Matt for his persistence in trying to get this story published. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

'The Unpromotables': Germany's league champions who can't go up. There are five 4th-tier Regionalligen in the German football pyramid, but only four promotion places to the third division. How should this problem be resolved? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... via @matt4d.bsky.social

1. FC Lok Leipzig captain Djamal Ziane has won the league three times - but he's never been promoted. Feature for BBC Sport on "Germany's Unpromotables," the growing campaign for league reform and lingering disparities between east and west. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

It is a colossal political failure to have encouraged the UAE to buy up swathes of the British economy and prized cultural assets like Manchester City while evidence of its greed and brutality and contempt for the rule of law was all around. Two @fairsqprojects.bsky.social reports worth reading 👇

Already seen the caveat of "economic benefits for Manchester" doing the rounds re Manchester city*. But how good has Abu Dhabi really been for Manchester? Story with @ncgeehan.bsky.social & @fairsqprojects.bsky.social a few years ago: www.dw.com/en/sportswas...

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"Standing terraces - check ✔️ Now Infantino out" Germany fans in Augsburg tonight, where standing was officially allowed at a national team game for the first time in 25 years following the expansion of a standing trial in UEFA competitions. FT: Germany 0-1 Greece 📷 @manuelveth.bsky.social

Nach dem Manchester City in 114 von 115 Fällen für schuldig befunden wurde, lohnt es sich erst recht noch einmal die Football Leaks-Enthüllungen anzuschauen und dort im Speziellen die Beiträge von @derwinterbach.bsky.social Z.B. der hier (🎁) schon von 2023 und von da an rückwärts:

Following the news that Manchester City FC has been found guilty of 114 breaches of the PL's rules and regulations, @josimarfootball.bsky.social has lifted the paywall on articles of ours focusing on MCFC and its commercial partners since 2018. Links follow in this thread.

Well, 114. Close enough.

Fortuna Düsseldorf's first team returned to the club's traditional home this week, playing a competitive game at the Paul-Janes-Stadion in Flingern for the first time since 2008 after a regional cup tie vs. seventh-tier Schwarz-Weiß Alstaden was moved. FT: 12-0 Att: 6,000 (sold out) #F95

🇩🇪 On the terraces in Germany this week: 🍻 Oktoberfest kit controversies 🔵 Hertha boycott Dynamo away 🤝 Fanfreundschaft: Schalke & Gladbach 🎨 Choreo of the week: Castaways, Wanderers Bremen or Brigade Nassau? Full stories on @gegenpressing.bsky.social: gegenpressingpodcast.com/p/on-the-ter...

🟢 As reported on the Monday Bulletin, Alexander Blessin has been appointed Borussia Mönchengladbach head coach. Plus: 🔷 Can Polzin reinvent HSV again? 🔴 Lustrinelli under pressure at Union 🔴 Undav's struggles in Stuttgart More on @gegenpressing.bsky.social gegenpressingpodcast.com/p/monday-bul...

Und an die Öffentlich-Rechtlichen: Auch wenn ihr nett zu den Nazis seid, werden sie versuchen euch abzuschaffen. Gönnt euch ein Rückgrat.

🟡 Borussia Dortmund once again unspectacular and minimalistic - but clinical and effective, and now top of the #Bundesliga with a 100% record. 🟡 Subs Bellingham & Karetsas with an instant impact, setting up Beier‘s winner. 🟡 A busy October to come, culminating with Bayern (a) on 31.10. #BVB

#Bundesliga Saturday off to a good start: 🔷 Huge first win (and goals!) for HSV - although unsure exactly how… 🟢 Another big home win for Werder, coming from behind with a Füllkrug screamer and a Weiser winner ⚫️ Gladbach lose 3-4 at home - again 🔴 Entertaining and fair result in Frankfurt

Habe ich was verpasst aber warum sind die Kolleg*innen von Sky plötzlich per Du mit der Sportvorständin des Hamburger SV? #bundesliga

"Long live the ultras - Nicolas never forgotten" Message from Hamburger SV's active fan scene above the away end at the Volksparkstadion today for the visit of 1. FC Köln - whose fan scene tragically lost 26-year-old ultra Nicolas to illness earlier this year. 📷 @ftamsut.bsky.social #bundesliga

What a set of Saturday fixtures 😎 Join us on the @gegenpressing.bsky.social matchday chat on Substack. Podcast coming later. #bundesliga

Man United fans' response last time Jim Ratcliffe took aim at immigrants

Why is it that the *opinion* of a billionaire tax dodger who hates his country of birth is deemed worthy of a full-length feature on the website of the public broadcaster?

Bayern ultras behind the goal when the players came over after a 7-0 win in their Oktoberfest kits: "We want red and white kits!" #bundesliga