The banner wasn’t meant to be bad, but it just hung there. “Come to stay,” the Heidenheim fan curve had posted before the game, without a comma, but with full justification in terms of content. Anyone who had taken a look at the game plan before the season and leafed through to the last page might have even imagined that relegation would be negotiated in Heidenheim in mid-May, but rather the other way around: that the brave newcomers from the Swabian Ostalb would be ahead of their home team The audience might have another chance to save themselves against the big 1. FC Köln. But now this almost unbelievable team was actually applying for a place in the European Cup – while the formerly great 1. FC Köln had come to leave.
1. FC Köln is relegated from the Bundesliga: A relegation with a very long run – Sport
