RBL Talk — RB Leipzig Podcast (English)
Sep 26, 2026 · 1 hr 24 min · 14 segments
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But, uh, uh, anyway, w- I've got actually a, a nice bridge into that, as, uh, you've mentioned, so, and a cheeky one before we do get going properly.
How do you and the Lautern fan base generally actually feel about RB Leipzig? And be completely honest, we can take it.
... [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.
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.
And some Germans were s- would say, "Okay, you know, [sighs] we, we don't have VfB Leipzig anymore.
Uh, you know, we can't really get behind Lokomotive Leipzig or Chemie Leipzig, so it's okay that we have this club." Um, what happened with EFZ- 1.
FC Union Berlin's promotion is that erased a lot of that goodwill because for then we had an East German club that had a tradition which was somewhat pro-Western.
This was the club of Nina Hagen, for example, and, and also her stepfather, Rolf Biermann, Biermann.
So, um, [smacks lips] yeah, once Union, uh, got promoted, then people said, "Well, the East has some representation.
We can go back to hating Leipzig again." [laughs] Um, [smacks lips] I personally, uh, think that the problem could be solved by the fact that...
I mean, look, after all [laughs] you also have to realize this is an Austrian company that has come into Germany and funneled this, [laughs] this money.
Um, you know, technically speaking, uh, people, the locals in Leipzig, uh, can apply for membership and they can, uh, [clears throat] you know, apply to, uh, they can run for the board and could have a say in their club and, and could do things locally.
But, uh, uh, anyway, w- I've got actually a, a nice bridge into that, as, uh, you've mentioned, so, and a cheeky one before we do get going properly.
How do you and the Lautern fan base generally actually feel about RB Leipzig? And be completely honest, we can take it.
... [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.
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.
And some Germans were s- would say, "Okay, you know, [sighs] we, we don't have VfB Leipzig anymore.
Uh, you know, we can't really get behind Lokomotive Leipzig or Chemie Leipzig, so it's okay that we have this club." Um, what happened with EFZ- 1.
FC Union Berlin's promotion is that erased a lot of that goodwill because for then we had an East German club that had a tradition which was somewhat pro-Western.
This was the club of Nina Hagen, for example, and, and also her stepfather, Rolf Biermann, Biermann.
So, um, [smacks lips] yeah, once Union, uh, got promoted, then people said, "Well, the East has some representation.
We can go back to hating Leipzig again." [laughs] Um, [smacks lips] I personally, uh, think that the problem could be solved by the fact that...
I mean, look, after all [laughs] you also have to realize this is an Austrian company that has come into Germany and funneled this, [laughs] this money.
Um, you know, technically speaking, uh, people, the locals in Leipzig, uh, can apply for membership and they can, uh, [clears throat] you know, apply to, uh, they can run for the board and could have a say in their club and, and could do things locally.
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