Start here Michael, the stories about how red Bull manipulate clubs for
their own ends are all over. This is about their machinations in Germany:
The story goes a little something like this. A few years ago, Bundesliga
reserve sides were prevented from playing any higher than the 3rd tier:
the Regionalligas East, West and Central. This was much to the annoyance
of Red Bull, whose reserves had remained in Regionalliga West having won
it in 2011. So they paid off cash-strapped USK Anif and changed its name
to FC Liefering, then handed FC Liefering Red Bull Salzburg’s reserve
squad, then formed a new club called FC Anif and gave it Red Bull
Salzburg’s reserves’ league spot.
Confused? Well there’s another team, FC Pasching, under Red Bull’s evil
wing now too, so there. The upshot of all this is that Red Bull have
control of three 3rd division clubs – FC Anif and FC Liefering in
Regionalliga West, plus FC Pasching in Regionalliga Central – and claim
none of them are reserve sides, therefore all should be able to be promoted.
Furthermore, because promotion from the Regionalligas is clinched via a
sequence of play offs, it’s conceivable that FC Liefering and FC
Pasching could contend a bizarre end-of-season decider between two Red
Bull teams. The Salzburg FA say they’re powerless to prevent this, but
the Austrian FA surely face an administrative headache if such a
situation were to arise.
the story continues here:
http://www.thebeatengeneration.co.uk/tbg/index.php/2013/04/austria-salzburgs-dream-alive-as-another-red-bull-duel-looms/
Trust me there is something smelly about Red Bull
A smell which you usually get when going from the frying pan into the fire
betty
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