Swabian Engineers vs Hamburg Anarchists: How Stuttgart vs St. Pauli Explains the World
The Bundesliga has many derbies, but few carry the geopolitical baggage of VfB Stuttgart versus FC St. Pauli. On paper it’s merely 18th-placed Stuttgart trying to clamber over 17th-placed St. Pauli in the relegation playoff spot, a desperate scramble to stay among the Teutonic elite. In practice it is a proxy war between Swabian industrial…