I don't know about that..if you read spanish football forums you would understand just how hated the catalans are(especially Laporta and Pep because they want to be independent of Spain) or that the smaller catalan clubs have the same opinion of us as the smaller german clubs have of Bayern. After the 2010 WC we were received a little better in other stadiums, but you still hear "Puta Barca, Puta Catalunya" in pretty much every stadium we play(the Ultra Sur are singing it even when they're playing against Atletico).
And as far as Bayern's management goes, we have a president who makes 5-0 predictions before El Clasico or says that we're the best team in Europe when we're clearly not or that Iniesta is the 2nd best player in Europe..and then RM have Florentino, who says that the press is against them(when there isn't a team in Europe that has the support of the media like RM has with Marca, As, La Sexta, Intereconomia, Cuatro or even the spanish national television), that makes complaints to Uefa to suspend half of Barca team before a CL final or atacks RM players after he sold them so he could buy a new shiny toy.
And not to mention that the fans of the other spanish teams can't even talk about the TV money distribution without insulting us.
So I don't pretend to know just how hated Bayern is in Germany, but I doubt that we can't compare them with Barca/RM hatred in Spain.
You're right, but that was not what I meant; I was expressing myself wrongly there. I meant that you can't compare the hatred towards Bayern with the hatred
between Barca and Real, or the alleged Dortmund/Bayern rivalry with the Barca/Real one. To create a working analogy, Bayern would be Barca and Real in one, with the other teams in the Bundesliga representing the other teams in La Liga. Dortmund, despite having developed a world-class squad in the past few years, aren't really more serious contenders for Bayern than any other club (Schalke, Leverkusen, too name a few) - simply because no team has the financial means nor the "lobby" to be there on top with Bayern for many years. So all this "Dortmund fans hating on Bayern fans" isn't really the whole picture, and is only perceived that way by people who have known Dortmund since they got into that winning cycle. Again, I'd really like to see Dortmund break the spell and stay on top for many years, but that's written in the stars.
About the point you make regarding Barca/Real hatred being comparable to Bayern hatred, that's true, it's comparable to a large extent.
I do feel a bit uncomfortable comparing the Catalonia hatred with the Bavaria hatred (on a political level) because of their different economic situations - which is why I can understand the Bavaria resentment better than the Catalonia one (but I might be biased because I support Catalonia and "dislike" Bavaria).
As for Rosell/Florentino, that's true, they are not really better than Hoeneß. But the issue with Hoeneß is (and that's why he is hated more than anyone else in the Bayern mangement), he's been the club's manger since 1979. He
is the club.
And not only that; in all these years he's even become a political figure in not just Bavaria, but in all of Germany - at least until his tax evasion scandal. (Now to explain, Bayern is similarly important to Bavaria as Barca is to Catalonia; the leader of the Bavarian party once said, "if Bayern is doing good, our party is doing good too". Hoeneß is good friends with the leader of the Bavarian party, the biggest Bavarian newspaper is hugely linked to the club, etc. Those three entities form a single, Bavarian entity in the eyes of many.) He was and still is a welcome dialogue partner for all sorts of political matters, talking about social policy and always happy to proclaim his opinions on current political debates. And he is paid attention when doing that, even by politicans. It seems like some politicians trust his opinions (why, I have no idea; perhaps because his mangement of the club was just brilliant, not only financially but on many levels) - that became especially visible when, after his tax evasion got public, leading politicians of all parties expressed their personal disappointment or their support for him on a personal level. He even was good friends with some.
So... many football fans fail to understand what a football manager has to do with political issues and get the feeling that Hoeneß, as a representative of FC Bayern, is way too connected in the political world (including all the conclusions one might draw from that).
In a way, you could also say that a lot of Bayern hatred is Hoeneß hatred. (Personally, I don't have much against him, except for the tax evasion issue.)
Sorry for going so much into detail here.
