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2017

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  18.08.2017 Hannover: Surprise declaration in favour of legal pyrotechnics

  If there's one person you would expect to be sceptical of pyro, it's a minister of interior. But it's exactly his announcement in favour of legal flares that sparked new heated discussion in Germany.

2015

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  29.07.2015 10+ Ranking 2015: Attendances in Europe (Part 2. The Clubs)

  Borussia, Barca and Man United – lovely dominant trio. But it wasn’t them who gained most fans last season. Check all 217 clubs that draw an average crowd of 10,000+!

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  28.07.2015 10+ Ranking 2015: Attendances in Europe (Part 1. The Leagues)

  Numbers don’t lie: French Ligue 1 outgrew Italian Serie A as Europe’s fourth largest league. Premier League seems unlikely to catch up to Bundesliga, while Turkey, Ukraine and Scotland are down.

2014

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  26.09.2014 Germany: “Zero provocation instead of zero tolerance” - it works!

  From August the most football-mad region worldwide was undergoing a serious test: how will safety change with less police force deployed? Just as many experts predicted, it improved.

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  06.08.2014 10+ Ranking: Here are the best European clubs by attendance

  There are 229 clubs in Europe enjoying on average 10,000 spectators and more. We list all of them to show the Continent’s most magnetic teams. Some fanbases really deserve praise for their participation, right Rangers/Portsmouth?

2012

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  13.12.2012 Germany: Controversial safety regulations approved, what now?

  Yesterday 36 top clubs voted on proposed safety regulation changes with vast majority in favour. Many fans see this as clamp-down on fan culture, but others are encouraged by events of past few weeks. What's changing inside German stadia?

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  11.11.2012 Germany: Fans don’t feel safe?

  Temperature around German football safety has been growing for months and is almost as hot as the flares set off by fans inside stadiums. Flares much hated by football governing bodies who suggested a new safety system, claiming people don’t feel safe at football games. They only forgot to ask the people, whether this is the case…