Football

Nicolai Maurer, 26, a leading member of Dortmund's unity ultras group – 260 young men, mostly in their early 20s – explained: "If there are some problems at the stadium we do not believe the answer is repression. The politicians are threatening that Germany must have seats, and we are worried it will be like England, where the football atmosphere was famous but now it is so quiet. At Manchester City [where Dortmund excelled in a 1-1 draw last month] it was a little better,*[I]** but at Arsenal last year, we could not believe you could watch football so quietly. We don't want that.***[/I]"

Found this little gem in the Guardian today.