the bundesliga kicks off this weekend as the 1st major league in europe to get back in action and mccambridge from sports is here to tell us more about this that i've got to start by by asking you why germany went forward with this despite the fact that many people say it's an early restart for the season well this was bubbling over for a long time and a lot of the clubs in germany were using a lot of scary woods are saying things like survival we're going to go bust we need to get the football back on to survive and that was also coupled with the t.v. companies saying to the d.f.l. the german f.a. we will pay the bill costs money to these clubs we will save these clubs from going broke if you get the games back on and we can show them on television we have to watch yourself you know there's a lot of other industries in germany which are also suffering at the moment so why the football and the government saying it's very good for morale that so many football fans in germany let's get it back on let's push the mood to try and show people that look down you know is almost over so there's a lot

let's go a little deeper on all of this with ed mccambridge from our sports desk good morning ed 1st year football fan so quick one word to describe what it felt like to see football come back very exciting as to what to expect you know so listen the whole world was waiting to see how germany was going to handle the return to this what's the verdict well this was football as we have never seen it before really was an unprecedented audience all around the world was choosing to find out how the bundesliga go on yesterday and a lot of people on twitter were saying you can really see the power of fans of these empty stadiums the games felt a little bit flat to begin with these big empty concrete bowls that they're playing football in there was a tree it's a play is warming up with masks on their faces social distancing goal celebrations you could hit almost everything the players said to one another the good and the bad and all of course everything the coaches were shouting from the bench but beneath all of that there was of course the football and as we've just seen there was a thumping

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our let's go to taper on all of this with ed mccambridge from alice for stats good morning ed so everyone's eyes watching germany as they get back on the pitch back in the field what was the verdict well rebecca this was the book is the guys we've never seen it before this was unprecedented worldwide audience tuning in to find out how germany coped with getting football back of course as you said a little earlier in the show the 1st of europe's top leagues to bring it back and a lot of people on social media were lamenting of course the lack of fans inside the stadium saying that it detracted from the game somewhat they were also treated the same players warming up with masks on their face a social distancing goal celebrations which was very old you could hear the players and the coaches issuing instructions to each other which was very strange indeed but beneath all of the strangeness of course there was football played as we saw in the report just now dortmund absolutely some shelter from the revered rb leipsic stumble against freiburg so typical football and it was very entertaining for

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