Lokomotive Leipzig cf us.

[alexscottislegend 2,084]

In 2004, the club was re-established by a group of fans as 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig. The renewed side had to start in the lowest league eleventh-tier 3. Kreisklasse, Staffel 2 in 2004–05. Even so, they continued to receive solidly enthusiastic fan support: their game against Eintracht Großdeuben's second team in the Leipzig Zentralstadion on 9 October 2004 broke the world record for lower-league attendance with an astounding 12,421 spectators in the stands.

 

I wonder if they have to put up with the 'new club' nonsense that we get? Clubs are dissolved and re-formed all the time.

Edited August 29, 2016 by alexscottislegend

[der Berliner 3,263]

Yo do have differences with all this defunct clubs, clubs that g to the wall, being erased from the roster of league clubs etc., not least when clubs are owned or/and run by companies, rather than the club run by itself.

 

If the company that runs the club goes to the wall, yet, someone or some entity takes over the club, the club itself remains as it were. Whether it is by direct swapping of ownership (how Murray got us and essentially Whyte got us; the way it happens all the time in England and Scotland), or less direct through the courts and administration stuff. The club "changes hands".

 

There is a double-book series by Dave Twydell called "Rejected F.C. of Scotland" that explains the fate of quite a few now "dead" clubs, the most prominent of which is of course Third Lanark. Clubs that went out of business on and off the field, assets and players sold, names erased from the leagues.

 

Those drumming about the "new club" are essentially "new age trolls and neds" using the modern media to spout their hateful message about. You do wonder how Italian fans speak of Fiorentina these days, a club very much "a new one" rather then the team we faced in the 60s. Even UEFA/ECA accept the new club, who essentially bought the old clubs history and colours, as the Fiorentina of old.

 

The real problem are probably not the fans in the stands giving us some cynical banter about us "being not Rangers anymore", but the heinous keyboard warriors who work at the various mhedia outlets and papers, people who are arrogant and bold enough to spout their bile openly by printing half-truths and even lies as fact. Those should be taken to task, no matter what, as journalists do not only have "rights", but also "responsibilities". Not least those who are being paid by the license payer.