I visited Bern the other week and met up with Max for a chat about fan culture and what we can expect from Bern as a club, a town and a support. A link to a video is attached below.
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Bern’s the federal capital of Switzerland and as you’d expect it’s fairly expensive just now as the redoubtable Swiss franc benefits from global uncertainties as investors flock to a safe currency – bad for us, makes for cheap holidays for the Swiss!
Max writes for the Young Boys Bern fanzine “Zum Runden Leder” – which translates roughly as “The Round Leather Table” – an old Swiss name for a football. His English accent comes from living in the North East of England!
Zum Runden Leder can be found on these links –
https://blog.derbund.ch/zumrundenleder/
https://www.facebook.com/zumrundenleder/
Young Boys are going through a great period in their history – actually winning things for a change. For many years they were the nearly men of Swiss football, losing in finals and stumbling in league races.
In 2017/18 they won their first championship title since1986 – the first in 32 years.
Having lived and worked in the UK for a while Max is a keen fan of British football in general and Rangers in particular.
You can follow Max on Twitter at https://twitter.com/1MAXPOWER8
