Arbeit says the club don't need to "give the fans any help to celebrate". So they broke into the stadium with some gluhwein and biscuits, wished each other a merry Christmas and sang carols on the halfway line. The money they got for it kept the club alive. Media playback is not supported on this device "This was a very strong symbol of what people are ready to give," said Arbeit.The fans' love for the club is so strong that according to journalist Rylan James, a group once broke into the stadium to wish each other Merry Christmas - and it has been repeated every year since as a tradition. The ground, which is terracing on three sides, holds 22,000.The club risked losing their licence in 2008 when those terraces were crumbling, but 2,500 fans volunteered to rebuild the stadium and put in 140,000 hours of work between them. So a group of supporters literally bled to keep the club alive. Photograph: Karsten Thielker/The Observer For Smolka and his … According to Sweetman, they have a long-held "anti-establishment" identity. "These rough emotions - it's what Union is all about. "This was a very strong symbol of what people are ready to give," said Arbeit. "People in society are looking for a place they are respected - not as consumers, but as human beings. "If I see the pictures these days I start crying immediately," he said. "During the Union's opening fixture in the Bundesliga - a 4-0 defeat at home to RB Leipzig - the fans held up nearly 500 posters of deceased supporters. "There are great stories about them chanting 'the wall must go' at free-kicks - because that's the only time you could chant that in East Germany. It did not come down until 1989.On the sporting front, east Berlin's teams competed in the East German league system until the reunification of the country in 1990 - with Union Berlin the first to make it to the top flight since. "They were a club that represented their people during the Cold War. "It's so great to see what power football still has in these times when a fan experiences the most unbelievable success.
"Guys with long hair, growing beards and all that stuff - they went to Union and felt freedom and wildness," said Arbeit. Christian Arbeit, head of communications at Union Berlin, said the campaign "Bleed for Union" was created by the fans.
We are close together. Well, answer us this: have you ever given actual blood to support your club? We bought our dead friends and relatives into the stadium. They know the club is appreciating of that. People loved to drink beer. It belongs to them, not to anyone else. Berlin was also split in two; in 1961, its wall was built to separate the city and prevent people from fleeing the Soviet-controlled eastern half. There is a strong connection with bikers and people knew each other. You get paid for donating blood in Germany. The club decided to act on the proposal of the fan and member department for stadium rules to be adapted, making it possible to take action against racism and right-wing extremist behaviour. It’s a club where all of those cliches about football being more important than life itself actually apply. "The day they gained promotion was emotional too and Arbeit said he "doesn't know when the feelings will stop". Football is the last place you can live those emotions and Union is a place, a rare island, where it's welcomed to support the team in a creative and loud manner. Union gave home to this. We will have to struggle until the very last game of season to stay in. Indeed, there was a time, when the city was divided by the Berlin Wall, that such a fixture would have been impossible.After World War Two, Germany divided into two countries. "You can feel that when you go there.
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