If you look at the continuum of different ways to found, shape and run a football club, it’s true that you would find Pauli towards one end and Bayern all the way at the other.
The two clubs differ vastly in terms of structure, ethos and history, with St. Pauli a famously left-leaning, punk-inspired, fan-inclusive ‘neighbourhood club’ from a working-class area of Hamburg. Meanwhile, Bayern are a publicly traded company from the country’s economic powerhouse in the affluent south with a turnover in the hundreds of millions every year.
