Late on Friday evening, Fabian Klos, 35, experienced his darkest hour as a footballer, and that had little to do with football. The reason for the war-like conditions in the Bielefeld fan block and for repeated crying fits from Klos was a 0:4 defeat by the second division team Arminia Bielefeld in the relegation first leg at the third division team SV Wehen Wiesbaden. Even more dramatic than the increasingly clear free fall of the traditional East Westphalian club from the Bundesliga to the third division within twelve months was that the private broadcaster Sat1 and the pay broadcaster Sky announced the decline and the capitulation of the German Sports Club (DSC) Arminia on Friday evening Bielefeld broadcast live to the entire football region.
Fan anger after Arminia Bielefeld’s debacle in the relegation
