FCB are the anomaly. If you compare HSV to Hertha, Koln, Eintracht, Schalke, Werder and others HSV looks fairly normal. Perhaps in a league if one team succee

FCB are the anomaly. If you compare HSV to Hertha, Koln, Eintracht, Schalke, Werder and others HSV looks fairly normal. Perhaps in a league if one team succeeds and builds solid foundations it has a tendency to keep ahead. Added to that in Germany it's so much harder for outside money to come in and build a team. Leipzig have done it, but just look at how fans think of them. If you look at in England, without the external money teams of Manchester City and Chelsea a few big teams that have been dominating for decades would have continued their run. Admittedly there it would have been a big three of Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United though.