I guess we'll see if the German fans' nerves hold until 2021. It's all well and good protesting at the start, but will they still be boycotting games in three year's time? Especially the season ticket holders who will lost out on several games per season. If the boycott works then TV companies won't pay as much for the rights, which will limit the investment in German football. Again this could have a negative impact on Germany's performance in world football, but they're not doing too bad at the moment without it.

for research purposes they could use Arsenal's fans as the quietest in the UK and ours as the most passionate.

Eze Peasy at Anfield....

Much like Leicester did with their clappers and other such stuff.

As for Willos point, I'd imagine that number was "seats allocated" rather than those who actually turned up. How many times have we seen "sell out" games at Wembley, yet huge sections of the crowd gp empty. Usually due to corporate give aways etc. The seats are "taken" in the names of VIPs, but they don't actually turn up!

As for the English game? TV rights aren't the first time we've suffered changes to the game to tackle issues, so it's something were more used to, the early kick offs to combat crowd rowdiness being one of them.