Christian Beeck: the Sport1 columnist tore Paderborn to pieces in a commentary at the start of the 2015/16 season. “Paderborn have made a classic false start. From my point of view, the club completely underestimated the situation,” wrote the former Union Berlin player, before going on to predict that the team would end up more or less where it had come from, down near the bottom of Bundesliga 2. He called the Bundesliga promotion “luck”.\n\nPaderborn saw his words as malicious defamation, but by season’s end had to admit he had not been all that wrong.