​Bundesliga newcomers SV Elversberg in ’51’ profileIn mid-September, the mighty FC Bayern will visit the town of Elversberg for the first time, with its population of 13,000 – the smallest Bundesliga club of all time. But there’s more that connects the two clubs than you would think. A walk through the village with some crazy encounters.When the group meet for a barbecue in Ulrich Hönes’ summer house, everyone is wearing red and white. It’s obvious. At first glance, Walburga Müller doesn’t stand out in her red shirt; it’s only when you look closer that you notice the absence of the white and blue diamonds and the golden stars on the chest. The 67-year-old has been a member of the local FC Bayern fan club for many years, visited the Olympiastadion in Munich many times, regards Gerd Müller as “by far the best striker of all times” – but tonight she’s wearing SV Elversberg’s red away kit from last season. “What can I say? This club touches me,” she says. “It’s just a mad situation.”Walburga is referring to the fact that FC Bayern are coming to Elversberg on 13 September. The German record champions against the Bundesliga debutants. The club of 430,000 members against the town of 13,000 folk. And yet the two clubs have more in common than you would think at first. SVE and FCB cooperate loosely in youth football. Bayern talents such as Paul Wanner have established themselves in professional football in Elversberg. FC Bayern partner Ursapharm is the main sponsor of SVE. And the chairman of the local FCB fan club really is called Ulli Hönes. People often say that football produces the craziest stories, but sometimes it really does go to extremes.Elversberg is situated in south-west Saarland, 15 kilometres from Saarbrücken, 25 from France. You spend a good hour travelling through endless green hills – and then you don’t even realise you’ve reached your destination. The yellow place-name signs have been taken down again – a popular souvenir. The stadium is located on an industrial estate on the outskirts of town, next to a filling station and a supermarket. On a Wednesday afternoon in the summer break, the fan shop is fairly busy, offering shirts, flip-flops, barbecue tongs and panda dummies, all in the colours of black and white.Town gathering in the stadiumOn the stadium car park, which probably fits a few hundred cars, waits Ulli Hönes, 77 years old and chairman of the local FC Bayern fan club ‘Spieser Bazis’. It’s an almost surreal scene. The stadium capacity has just been increased to 15,000, construction machinery makes a noise, groups of fans take selfies. But there’s no train station in the area, no traffic lights or pedestrian crossings in front of the stadium, just a narrow bike lane next to the highway, wide enough for maybe three people to walk side by side. What will it be like when Bayern, Dortmund and Hamburg come to town soon? “Then it’ll be chaos,” says Hönes with a