St. Pauli’s pilgrims buy rebellion at the gate
Babelsberg’s stadium party sells the old left-wing football fantasy back to itself, with fan scarves, moral superiority, and the comforting smell of sanctioned dissent.
The match is being framed as proof that football can still belong to the people, which is adorable because it mainly proves that middle-class radicals will happily queue, drink, and chant under floodlights if the branding is correct.