Loyal readers of this column may recall – at a stretch – last fortnight's blog on the way some Premier League obsessions are slowly creeping into the Bundesliga discourse. But a quick look at the table as well as the "it would never happen in a proper league" regulation thrashing of the weekend – Bayern's 7-0 Reiberdatschi walkover sorry SC Freiburg – makes one wonder why another, equally serious matter, one at least on a par with net spend calculations, shirt sponsorship contract values and the precise running order of a highlights show that's rather shamefully biased towards matches with actual highlights, is not discussed at far greater length in ye olde Vaterland of Fussball. We are of course talking about the secret, dark machinations of the Bundesliga fixture list.
German football supporters still – rather naively, of course – believe that the pairings are actually fabricated by an incorruptible computer on Bundesliga chief executive Christian Seiffert's desk. This almost blind faith is undoubtedly underpinned by the extremely efficient manner in which the 17 first-half of the season fixtures are simply repeated one after the other, on opposing grounds, after the winter break. This neat, objective-looking symmetry is only ever broken up in extreme circumstances, when matches are abandoned, for example. Fans of proper "big" Premier League clubs would not be fooled by this veneer of objectivity, however. They'd subject the Spielplan to the kind of rigorous, forensic analysis that can detect the true anti-insertyourteamhere bias hiding in plain sight. And they'd soon see through this season's conspiracy: it's all fixed, in a literal sense, in Bayern's favour. Full story...
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German football supporters still – rather naively, of course – believe that the pairings are actually fabricated by an incorruptible computer on Bundesliga chief executive Christian Seiffert's desk. This almost blind faith is undoubtedly underpinned by the extremely efficient manner in which the 17 first-half of the season fixtures are simply repeated one after the other, on opposing grounds, after the winter break. This neat, objective-looking symmetry is only ever broken up in extreme circumstances, when matches are abandoned, for example. Fans of proper "big" Premier League clubs would not be fooled by this veneer of objectivity, however. They'd subject the Spielplan to the kind of rigorous, forensic analysis that can detect the true anti-insertyourteamhere bias hiding in plain sight. And they'd soon see through this season's conspiracy: it's all fixed, in a literal sense, in Bayern's favour. Full story...
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