Northeast Regional League | Football and politics: desired victories and election results

At the weekend, league leaders Chemnitz lost at home against Magdeburg's second team, and the Saxons recently fought for a draw at BFC Dynamo. Because both Halle drew against Lok Leipzig and Carl Zeiss Jena drew against BFC, the red and white Blumenstädter team were able to fight their way back to the top of the regional league with an away win in Greifswald. In the Erzgebirge the grapes hang a little lower, a victory in Zwickau healed many open wounds and brought relegated Aue back into the promotion scramble in seventh place.

Frank Willmann looks at the football between Leipzig, Łódź and Ljubljana.

Jokes, tricks and revenge will be necessary, but we are fortunate enough to incorporate this spectacle into our everyday lives. Jena can compete in Aue next weekend. Will ice flowers already grow and the friends of the wooden pointed hat catch my beloved Carl Zeiss? Horror and horror, I will be there on the couch and conjure up invisible waves towards the Erzgebirge: "A ring to enslave them, to find them all, to drive them into the darkness and to bind them forever." My magic never comes too late. Nor is it ever too early. He arrives when it's just right: 1-0 for Jena through Elias Löder in the fifth minute of extra time in the Aue Arena.

It's exciting, we still have a breezy 20 match days ahead of us before the motto in May is: "Finita la commedia." But until then: Raise your cups, our blood is football pain, love and irony should be our daily message to humanity! Also: There are some things that are good in the world, for example the election results in Brazil and Serbia. Until a few days ago, Lula had no chance in Brazil's runoff election, but now he is showing the Bolsonaros the winning fist. In Serbia, too, the autocrat Vučić was voted out of office by civil society.

All that's needed is a kick in Trump's mighty ass in the week after next and we can concentrate entirely on football. If the DFB decides on the compass model in November - and from now on the four regional leagues can each send their champions to the 3rd division, satisfaction will return to the angry brainboxes of the fans.

Today I have a simple explanation for my passion for football. I like meeting up with friends in the fresh air. I am curious about foreign people and cultures. I'm interested in stadium architecture, I love passionate fan chants, cultivated provocations and formidable pyrotechnics. I like to listen to Morrissey and Slime Germ on the road away. What could be better than rushing to the stadium with a good coffee in your fist to cheer on your beloved club playing football?

No paywall, no small print, just one goal: that nd stays.