Nyes, says Bernd Hofmann, thinks for a moment and says: “Boredom is of course a hard expression, but of course it really gets to the heart of the feeling.” The feeling that there is no one left in the Bundesliga who can match it FC Bayern Munich can stand up to. The record champion is heading straight for the tenth title in a row. And Hofmann, 71 years old, who has been president of the FC Bayern fan club Nabburg/Oberpfalz for three decades, the world’s largest Bayern fan club, keeps thinking about how nice it was when his heart club still had opponents on an equal footing. “There are people in our fan club,” he says, “who don’t even know what it’s like to lose. They don’t even know any other master anymore.”
The Bundesliga is currently experiencing a monoculture of success that is unparalleled in Europe. In England (five different champions in the past nine years), in Spain (three), France (three) and Italy (two) it has recently been much more competitive in everyday league life. Therefore, one question arises above all: What does that mean?
