This Day in Football History
By: Jan | March 4th, 2008
March 4th, 1988. Exactly 20 years ago the DFB forbid then Bundesliga side FC Homburg to print the word London on their jerseys. It had nothing to do with any anti-English sentiments though. It wasn’t the London of Arsenal and Spurs, but the London of uh - the condom company. It was way below the belt for the DFB’s taste and Homburg printed a black bar on their jerseys instead. It caused quite a stir and criticism and a court overthrew the ruling and let Homburg advertise safer sex. It didn’t safe Homburg from relegation though.
This little lesson didn’t catapult the DFB into the modern age just yet. One year later the women’s national team had qualified for the Euros for the first time and even ended up winning the tournament (which they’ve since then continued winning except for 1993). The DFB were truly impressed by this achievement and had a little present for the women: a tea-set. One for each player. The DFB were no penny pinchers.
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They went down because they couldn’t score. How Ironic.
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I had heard about the tea-set story before. But certainly much has changed since then for the German national women’s team, eh? Cash incentives, I hear, after the Women’s World Cup final in China…
But certainly not the first story, Jan. London as a well…yeah.
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