Hertha BSC is a club of extremes. Attendance records, magical European nights and big games in the venerable Olympiastadion alternate with sporting embarrassments, construction farces and financial trouble. That much is well known.\n\nWhat few people know is that scandals, disqualifications and financial irregularities are virtually part of the club’s DNA and are not some ‘new’ Hertha phenomenon, but go back more than 100 years.
