Pyrotechnics, increasing violence: Developments in the Fankurve is worrying. The have taken the fan representatives of licensed clubs to the occasion on Monday, 8 Together in March 2010. Outcome of this meeting in the stadium center of VfL Bochum 1848 is an open letter to all football fans.

Dear football fans,

Each week thousands of you to accompany their teams home and away games. You support your team vociferously, creative and colorful. We as a fan representatives would like to see this kind of fan culture and support their best efforts. Unfortunately, our and your efforts conducted by several incidents in recent months, more and more absurd. Pyrotechnics, increasing violence, and the subsequent mutual depriving presenting the stolen Fan failures are that we do not wish, and the cause of growing concern to us. Above all parts of the ultra-scenes thus harm themselves and in the end all the fans.

The example of the fans of the 1st FC Nuremberg in the away game in Bochum has opened the eyes of many: Pyro is not a harmless stylistic device to give the curve color. Pyrotechnics is extremely dangerous and calls for years injuries in football.

The pressure of the policy increases with each of these senseless actions:
• Restrictive procurement policy Auswärtskarten (eg personalization)
• reducing the score to 5 per cent quota
• Complete exclusion of the guest Fans
• ghost games (including the exclusion of the home fans)
• Prohibition of any Fanutensilien
• strongest admission control (trackers, scanners, etc.)
• Check-regulated fans of all guests (including maps only organized Ride, travel bans)
• complete elimination of standing and thereby dramatically increasing ticket prices
• tightening of the stadium ban guidelines
• increased reporting requirements and city bans on match

These are not fantasies, but actual exposures to the DFL and DFB. Neither you nor we want the much-cited Italian or English conditions. But it is up to you, that such claims must be submitted or not implemented at all in practice.

We therefore call for responsibility and respect from you as you expect it from everyone else. You’re responsible for you, your fan groups and the fan culture that you want to keep it alive.

We will not stand how the fan culture itself is destroyed from the inside out.

The fan representatives of licensed clubs