Improperly Dressed
By: Abby | November 7th, 2007
It started out innocently enough. Marko Pantelic scored on his daughter’s birthday and pulled up his jersey to reveal birthday greetings to little Ingrid. Very sweet. Then, Patrick Ebert scores an equalizer in Hamburg and pulls up his jersey for his own message. Nothing wrong with that, right?
Wrong. Apparently, this is against the DFB rules (specifically, Rule 4). Pantelic’s case was dropped. Hertha’s lawyers are expecting Ebert’s to be as well: “We have been asked to explain the incident. Because the new rule was only introduced this year, the DFB are being lenient for now.” Still, Hertha doesn’t want to run any more risks, so now the kit men, Hendrik Herzog and Robert Abramczik, will get a new title- Shirt Policemen. They’ll be checking the players before they go out on the pitch to make sure that they have no illegal clothing on.
This is all being done to conform with DFB regulations. Not at all because Ebert’s T-shirt bore the logo of a fan group that had some members banned and refers to Hertha’s general manager Dieter Hoeness as “Public Enemy Number 1″on their website (Ebert claims that a friend gave him the shirt and he had no idea of the problems between Harlekins and Hertha BSC). Of course not.
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I wonder why they need this rule. Well, I also wonder what the problem with all the shirt pulling is really. Maybe it’s just all to protect the precious sponsors? And to make sure no other sponsor buys the space on the shirt beneath the shirt?
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Oooh, do we have pictures?
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[...] isn’t universally beloved around Hertha and German football circles. The fan club that Patrick Ebert got in trouble for wearing a T-shirt in support of, for example, were at one point referring to him as Public Enemy Number #1 (around when I wrote [...]
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