That the Red Bulls face not only rejection but outright hatred, especially away from home, is part of the German football landscape. It became brutally clear in Dortmund on February 4, 2017. What rained down on Leipzig’s players and their 6,000 travelling fans in the Signal Iduna Park went beyond all standards of decency, morality and fan culture: hate banners, some of them openly dehumanising, and ugly scenes around the stadium. The DFB reacted by closing the famous south stand, the Yellow Wall, for one match.
