(Reuters) - With players' voices bouncing off the empty stands and the leathery thud of the ball audible across the pitch, Germany's Bundesliga will have a very different feel when it resumes on Saturday.
Having been starved of action for two months due to the COVID-19 shutdown, German football fans must grudgingly and quickly adapt to a new reality, with all matches to be played without spectators in order to protect against the spread of the coronavirus.
Yet German fans must now surrender an ingrained Saturday afternoon routine and watch the league restart from afar, knowing any attempt to get close to the team would be a violation of the league's health regulations. "Even though we have the desire to motivate the team as much as possible for the derby in front of empty tribunes with us being at the bus arrival for example, we will not gather at the stadium," Borussia Dortmund fan group Suedtribuene said recently.Bundesliga clubs have been thinking of ways to enhance the atmosphere, either by playing music or putting up cardboard cutouts of fans in the seats, as is the case at Borussia Moenchengladbach.
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