Don't hold back

... [clears throat] when it comes, if you ask any German football fan, uh, what is their most hated club, half of them will say Hoffenheim and the other half will say RB Leipzig.

And the reason for this, of course, is the lack of history, the lack of tradition, um, the fact that this is a corporate club, uh, or these are corporate clubs funneled by corporate money, uh, and they're not traditional, uh, fan base clubs under 50 plus one.

[smacks lips] Now, um, I should say that I was always one that tended more towards hating Hoffenheim because I believe that, uh, like many Germans did, that it was kind of nice that the East, uh, had some representation.

Because after all, a lot of people don't realize, uh, that Leipzig not only has, uh, enormous cultural significance in the history of Germany, you know, this is the city, uh, uh, where Bach composed, where Goethe, uh, wrote.

It was actually the city in which the initial DFB was founded.

Um, many, many Germans were f- okay to turn something of a blind eye to, to Leipzig and say, okay, you know, by the time that Leipzig got promoted to the Bundesliga, I think it had been seven years since we had an East German club there.

Are they the right people? Is that okay? What's your take?