📸 They’d rather have gone down! 2. Bundesliga fans blast DFB | OneFootball

The principle of promotion and relegation playoffs leaves a bad taste in the mouths of many football fans. Ultra groups in particular repeatedly speak out against it.

However, hardly any collective has expressed itself as clearly as the supporters of SpVgg Fürth did last Sunday.

During the away match at FC St. Pauli (1:1), the traveling Franconians in the away section unfurled a banner reading: "Actually, RWE should be playing here today."

As a reminder: less than three months ago, Fürth and Rot-Weiß Essen faced each other in the playoff. After two dramatic matches, the Cloverleaf ultimately came out on top and thus secured survival by the skin of their teeth.

That the SpVgg fans still remain so outspoken in their dislike of the playoff is certainly to their credit.

A second banner perfectly summed up Fürth’s inner conflict: "Despite our own advantage," it read. Message received.

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