swabianfox
Rare Continental Breed
My impression as well! It had been coming for them for years if not decades![...] of a lot of people's feelings in this country re:Everton this season (i.e. an impression that Hamburg were arrogant & felt entitled despite being appallingly managed as a club & having done very little of note for a number of decades).
Hertha's situation is not too dissimilar though, at least that's the impression I get.
In fact, that ties to the point I've tried to make in the thread on RB Leipzig: it's often the traditional clubs with a long history and a large support that get away with poor club management, self-serving directors and years of fleecing their own supporters because they can almost 100% rely on a loyal fanbase that turns up at the gates no matter what. "New" and "corporate clubs" such as Leverkusen, Leipzig or Hoffenheim can't do that: they don't have a massive fanbase, and if they aren't reasonably well-managed, they throw a bad light on the funding company itself, and they eventually improve and prevail (in most cases, anyway).
In my opinion it's often the former that commit the larger "crimes" (i.e. rip off their own fanbase in particular) but it's mostly the latter that attract most of the vitriol.