Supporters
The supporters of "Der Club" are known to be loyal, used to suffer due to a lot of disappointments, pessimistic but also proud of their team, their tradition and titles won in the past. This can be fixed on more than 40.000 visitors instead of bad standings and the years in the 2. Bundesliga and the former Regionalliga. Furthermore the supporters are very self ironic and have a grim sense of humour which is reflected in the sentence "Der Club is a Depp" (The Club is an idiot). This saying comes from the Franconian Reporter Günther Koch after "Der Club" relegated in 1994 as, once again, one of the best teams in the league.
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“The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
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