In our “Green Space” phase, Oliver Fritsch, Christoph Simes, Stefan Reich and Christian Spiller alternately write in regards to the international of soccer and the sector of football. This text is a part of the mag ZEIT am Wochenend, factor 15/2026.
In fact, we at ZEIT have a name to protect and due to this fact have to offer training on common sports activities subjects. So listen in brief, please: Ulrich of Württemberg, born round 1340, as soon as dominated his county along side his father Eberhard II. But if Ulrich misplaced a vital fight, he returned wounded to his father. He was once no longer glad in regards to the junior’s defeat within the derby and he confirmed it via chopping the well-known tablecloth. So in reality, in reality. “The old man takes the knife and doesn’t say a word / And cuts the tablecloth between them in two,” rhymed the poet Ludwig Uhland a number of hundred years later. There could also be an image of this scene, which hangs in a Dutch museum.
