And one more political note: at Hertha BSC it is considered a major defeat that after 1990 the club never truly managed to become popular in East Berlin. Hertha has fans in West Berlin and Brandenburg, but in many parts of the East it is still seen as a typical West Berlin club with a provincial Spandau-Charlottenburg vibe. Then came the attempt to use Lars Windhorst’s money to turn Hertha into a ‘Big City Club.’