Welcome to the Dortmund London Fan Club community podcast, join us for a fan led journey to the heart of the ‘die Südtribüne‘, BVB‘s Yellow Wall, the South Terrace of 26,000 fans behind the goal, one of the world‘s biggest single stands and greatest football fan experiences. On each of the shows, we meet guests from BVB past and present, coaches, players, writers and fans, our aim is to bring the world of Borussia Dortmund to English-speaking audiences with insight, commitment and ’Echte Liebe’. Amongst our guests so far we have had TV Presenter Rapha Honigstein, former coach Bert van Marwijk, former players like Philipp Degen, Knut Reinhardt, Niclas Jensen, Bernd Klotz, Andre Bergdolmo, Sunday Oliseh, Christoph Zimmerman, Steffen Karl and Mayor of Dortmund Ulli Sierrau as well as England legend Tony Woodcock and Celtic supporters clubs president Joe O’Rourke. Please note we are not the official podcast of Borussia Dortmund, we are a podcast run by fans of the club and are not affiliated in any way to the football club in Dortmund. The official Borussia Dortmund podcast can be found at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/borussia-dortmund-podcast/id1503379263 If you would like more information on joining our 100% unofficial fan club of BVB in London, go to: Facebook.com/Borussiadortmundfanclubengland Thank you for checking out our show, please subscribe and share with your friends.
Episodes
Saturday Jun 20, 2020
Saturday Jun 20, 2020
Welcome to the BvB London fan club podcast as every week the focus of the show will be on exploring a facet of Borussia Dortmund life by talking to experts and former participants of the club's life, like players, fans, journalists who have covered the club and functionaries and experts and thus make our BvB more accessible to non-German speakers in particular.
On today's episode, Ben is joined by Irish Fulham and BvB fan Colm McNabola and Radio Brandenburg-Berlin's (RBB) sports commentator Phillip Buechner to chat with one of the great footballers of South Africa, the former Borussia Dortmund winger Delron Buckley.
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Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
Welcome to the BvB London fan club podcast as every week the focus of the show will be on exploring a facet of Borussia Dortmund life by talking to experts and former participants of the club's life, like players, fans, journalists who have covered the club and functionaries and experts and thus make our BvB more accessible to non-German speakers in particular.
On today's episode, Ben is joined by Mark Sheppard to explore the incredible story of 2008 FA Cup winners Portsmouth FC and the crisis that led to the 2013 fan takeover and find out why 50+1 the regulation in the Bundesliga that means German clubs remain majority-owned by their members could never, almost never, work in the UK and what it means for German football in light of clubs like RB Leipzig.
Special guests on the show are the former chairman of Portsmouth FC Iain McInnes, now the Chairman of Southern Football League team Gosport Borough FC (7th Tier Verbandsliga in Germany) the 2014 League trophy finalists that were founded in 1944, that play at the 4500 capacity Privett Park stadium. Iain runs a business in the electronics industry and himself played for Portsmouth U17 in his youth.
Also on the show is Colin Farmery a former board director of Portsmouth FC and a journalist who has written for Uk publications When Saturday Comes and The Guardian he is currently head of communications at Gosport Borough FC.
Both are long term Portsmouth fans since the 1960s and were instrumentally involved in the ownership of the club during the era of the ownership by the 'Pompey Supporters Trust' a takeover that saw thousands of fans come together to buy the club after a series of disastrous takeovers that pushed the club into administration twice.
We also contrast the financial crisis at Portsmouth FC with that at BvB of 2005 and find out what role the fans played in saving both clubs and laying the foundation for the future. They explain what happened, how it worked, why it was needed and what their roles in the takeover were.
As on every show the hosts and the guests also share stories of their visits to Westfalenstadion and what makes BvB, the club we love BVB.
We hope you enjoy the show, send us your comments, share the show with friends and remember for all the news and to apply for tickets to join the London BvB community at our Stammtisch at our online group at Facebook.com/borussiadortmundfanclubengland or come to watch a game at our meet-up Stammtisch at the Naughty Bar in Cleveland street during the season.
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Thursday May 28, 2020
Thursday May 28, 2020
Welcome to the Borussia Dortmund Fan Club London podcast the show that brings all things BVB to the UK with news, special guests, interviews and special features on this unique football club and the German league, the Bundesliga.
On today's show, Ben is joined by Mark Sheppard and Colm McNabola an Irish member of our club and a Fulham season ticket holder to chat with Niclas Jensen the former Denmark international and Borussia Dortmund Centreback who also played for PSV Eindhoven, Manchester City, Fulham and his home club FC Copenhagen now a FIFA talent agent.
Niclas won the Eredivisie with PSV Eindhoven and 2 titles with FC Copenhagen and earned 62 caps for Denmark playing at the 2002 World cup where he was tasked with marking David Beckham in the last 16 and 2004 European Championships in Portugal.
On the show, Niclas shares how he fulfilled his childhood dream to become a professional footballer and represent his country at a FIFA World cup. Reveals some great stories about his two seasons at Westfalenstadion in the Bundesliga and UEFA Cup at a challenging time under Matthias Sammer and then Bert Van Marwijk alongside legends like Tomas Rosicky, Sebastian Kehl, Roman Weidenfeller, Jan Koller and Christoph Metzelder like his rivalry with Dede and what makes Revierderby more important than relegation. What makes Dortmund a special city to live and play football in.
Plus we hear about his time with Manchester City under Kevin Keegan at Maine Road and Fulham in the Premier League including stories about playing alongside Erling Haaland's father Alf-Inge and why Peter Schmeichel is the still the best keeper and the miracle of how Coleman kept Fulham up in 2007.
As on every show we also catch up on the latest BVB results and gossip and the guests also share stories of their visits to Westfalenstadion and what makes BvB - BVB.
We hope you enjoy the show, send us your comments, share the show with friends and remember for all the news and to apply for tickets to join the London BvB community at our Stammtisch at our online group at Facebook.com/borussiadortmundfanclubengland or come to watch a game at our meet-up Stammtisch at the Naughty Bar in Cleveland street during the season.
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Friday May 22, 2020
Friday May 22, 2020
Welcome to the Borussia Dortmund Fan Club London podcast the show that brings all things BVB to the UK with news, special guests, interviews and special features on this unique football club and the German league, the Bundesliga.
On today's show, Ben is joined by Kieran Maguire a football finance expert at the University of Liverpool who regularly features on Sky and the BBC as well as his own weekly podcast The Price of Football.
My second guest is Stuart Rayner the chief football writer at the Yorkshire Post newspaper who has written a number of books including The War of the white roses and Five Trophies and a funeral.
On the show we talk BVB finances how the Borussia make money, why it's model is successful, how the Corona situation is likely to impact the transfer market and potential transfers including Jadon Sancho, what makes the 50+1 model unique and contrast with Premier League finances. We also hear some interesting insights in Brighton Hove and Albion and Leeds United clubs and their struggles to maintain their campaigns in the Premier League and Championship.
As on every show the guests also share stories of their visits to Westfalenstadion and what makes BvB.
The show kicks off with Stuart interviewing Kieran on how he became a football expert and what it's like running the Football MBA programme at the University of Liverpool and it was, of course, Felix Magath who took VFL Wolfsburg to the title find out more on the show..and enjoy the new title music!
We hope you enjoy the show, send us your comments, share the show with friends and remember for all the news and to apply for tickets to join the London BvB community at our Stammtisch at our online group at Facebook.com/borussiadortmundfanclubengland or come to watch a game at our meet-up Stammtisch at the Naughty Bar in Cleveland street during the season.
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Thursday May 21, 2020
Thursday May 21, 2020
Welcome to the Borussia Dortmund Fan Club London podcast the show that brings all things BVB to the UK with news, special guests, interviews and special features on the world's greatest football club and the German league, the Bundesliga.
On today's show, Ben is joined by guest Mark Sheppard and by Die Zeit newspaper and the BBC's Constantin Eckner as well as Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling a celebrated football author compiler of 'Die Chronik' a definitive history of BVB, published in November 19, one of four books he has written on Borussia Dortmund.
Dietrich has also written books about Celtic, Liverpool, the DFB National team, Johan Cruyff, CF Barcelona, the FIFA world cup and the history of his home team Preussen Muenster.
On tonight's pod, Dietrich takes us on a journey of his attendance at BVB matches and interviewing the makers and shakers who during the last 50 years of BVB history as every week Mark contrasts with the era in English football plus some controversy about Guenther Kutowski and his second Meisterschaft - don't know Kutowski? You need to, find out more on the show.
As the show was recorded after the Derby this week we have no match preview and news section.
We hope you enjoy the show, send us your comments, share the show and remember to join the London BvB community our Stammtisch match day meet-ups or online to catch up on all the news at Facebook.com/borussiadortmundfanclubengland.
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Tuesday May 05, 2020
Tuesday May 05, 2020
Welcome to the Borussia Dortmund Fan Club London podcast the show that brings all things BVB to the UK with news, special guests, interviews and special features on the world's greatest football club and the German league, the Bundesliga.
On today's show, Ben is joined by Arsenal FC Supporters Liasion officer the one and only Mark Brindle, a Gooner from birth, Mark has been at the helm of fan management at the Emirates stadium for over a decade, Mark opens up about life at one of the top Premier League teams, we also talk about common legends including Aubameyang, Papa, Rosicky, Mkhitaryan and former keeper Jens Lehmann. We contrast the academy styles of the two clubs and how youth football is run in Germany and England.
As on every show, we get the BVB news including transfer targets, why Arsenal's Buyako Saka could be the one for Borussia and get stuck into European cup nights between London and Dortmund's great clubs at Westfalenstadion and in North London.
Ben founder and president of Borussia Dortmund Fan Club London is also joined by guest Mark Sheppard of Sportsline UK.
We hope you enjoy the show, send us your comments, share the show and remember to join the London BvB community our Stammtisch match day meet-ups or online to catch up on all the news at Facebook.com/borussiadortmundfanclubengland.
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Monday May 04, 2020
Monday May 04, 2020
Welcome to episode 3 of the London BVB Podcast the show which brings the BVB world to London, this week the to talk about two clubs connected by the 'Kloppmeister' otherwise known as Jürgen Norbert Klopp Ben of the fan club is joined by Spielverlagerung's Constantin Eckner and Liverpool Echo sports writer Matt Addison and Tom and Jay of Meridian 107 FM Radio sports desk
We talk past Klopp and his Anfield revolution, shared players Emre Can, Karl-Heinz Riedle, Nuri Sahin, Patrick Berger and European nights including the 2016 Europa league quarterfinals and the 1966 Cup winners cup final as well as respect between the fans of two great clubs who share one special anthem.
You can follow our guests on Twitter at:
Constantin Eckner @cc_eckner and Matt Addison @MattAddison97.
Follow Tom and Jay or Meridian 107 FM @themeridianss.
As ever join us at the Stammtisch meet-up on match days at Naughty Bar in Marleybone for Dortmunder Union beer and live BVB match coverage and online find the club at Facebook.com/BorussiaDortmundFanClubEngland
Thanks for listening, be sure to share if you love the show and leave a review
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Monday May 04, 2020
Monday May 04, 2020
Welcome to episode 2 of the Borussia Dortmund Fan Club London podcast, on today's episode Ben of the fan club welcomes guests Tom Gilchrist and Jay Crame of Meridian 107 FM Radio sports show and Joe O'Rourke the general secretary of the Celtic supporters association to talk matches, players and cultures, what makes the special respect between the two sets of fans from the two industrial cities and by now legendary football clubs.
Topics include the UEFA cup matches of the 1980s, Murdo MacLeod, Paul Lambert and 1997 and why You never walk alone will always be an anthem at Westfalenstadion Dortmund's home ground.
As every week we cover all the latest news from Germany's greatest football club, this week that includes the potential return of the Bundesliga behind closed doors in May, potential transfer targets and the options for one Mario Götze.
Please join us at Stammtisch to watch Borussia Dortmund matches at the Naughty Bar in Marleybone on match days and online at Facebook.com/borussiadortmundfanclubengland and subscribe, share and leave a review on the podcast.
Heja BVB!
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Monday May 04, 2020
Monday May 04, 2020
Welcome to the BvB London fan club podcast as every week the focus of the show will be on exploring a facet of Borussia Dortmund life by talking to experts and former participants of the club's life, like players, fans, journalists who have covered the club and functionaries and experts and thus make our BvB more accessible to non-German speakers in particular.
On today's show, Ben's guests include Daily Mail football writer Adam Shergold, Mark Sheppard of Sportsline and Tom Gilchrist and Jay Crame of Meridian 107 FM Radio sports desk we talk about BVB's season to date, the Corona crisis and how it's impacted football fans and the season and Jay, a die-hard Crystal Palace fan spills the beans on his recent and first-ever trip to Westfalenstadion and what makes Dortmund such a special football experience for UK fans.
We hope you enjoy the show, send us your comments, share the show and remember to join the London BvB community our Stammtisch match day meet-ups or online to catch up on all the news at Facebook.com/borussiadortmundfanclubengland.
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