Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Ghost game: fans of FC St. Pauli DFB threaten with court action

A first group of fans of FC St. Pauli threatens the German Football Federation (DFB) because of the "Ghost Game" ruling with an action for damages. Should remain in the punishment of the Bundesliga clubs to play to empty seats on Easter Saturday against Werder Bremen, Hamburg law firm wants a civil action against the DFB.

The law firm announced on Tuesday in a press release. "We in this a civil action to which the sanctioned intervention in our established and operative business and demanding compensation from the DFB view, it should stick to the threatened ghost game", explained Jens-Peter Gieschen lawyer.

"As a professed St. Pauli-Fan our office two business seats for the whole season in the South Stand of the stadium Millerntor hired. For the Bremen game, we have purchased two more cards, as we had planned a visit to the stadium with business partners. This is achieved by unfair sanctions imposed by the DFB now defeated, "it said in the statement continued.

FC St. Pauli, whose home game on 1 April against Schalke 04 on account of a spectator to throw the cup linesman Thorsten Schiffner canceled and 0:2 had been scored, then was added to the "Ghost Game" Judgement of the DFB sports court appealed. In on Thursday convicted at a hearing in the DFB headquarters in Frankfurt / Main.

The DFB on Tuesday at first no one was available for comment on the action threat. St. Pauli's team manager Christian Bönig said: "It's typical of our viewers that they do not all have fallen. We are also a very lively club is the subject of controversy for many things. From this surprises me not.

"If it works as expected here that the game takes place in camera, will the prepared action against the DFB filed, the Hamburg office. With the creation of the action we have commissioned the Hamburg University Professor Kai-Oliver Knops, department chair in civil and commercial law. Gieschen said: "Such an action is to lead, not automatic, but success is also not excluded."

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