By David Owen
August 17 – In six and a half decades, RB Leipzig, who take on one of the Middle East-backed super-clubs, Paris Saint-Germain, in Lisbon on Tuesday night, will be the first team from eastern Germany to appear in a Champions League/European Cup semi-final.
It is a remarkable statistic when you consider that the region includes the cities of Berlin and Dresden, as well as Leipzig. Still more when you take account of how the Communist regime that ruled East Germany when it was an independent state notoriously masterminded the achievement of international dominance in a number of other sports.
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