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You’ve probably heard of the ghost goal – at Borussia Monchengladbach they have ghost fans, too.

With the Bundesliga restarting behind closed doors, supporters created cardboard cutouts and put them in the stands at Borussia-Park. Take-up surpassed 17,000, filling entire sections of the stadium. Cutouts brazenly ignored social distancing rules and huddled together in the Nordkurve, the traditional home end.

Some fans eschewed selfies and opted for a famous face instead – among them, club icons Gunter Netzer and Berti Vogts, plus current goalkeeper Yann Sommer, who was confusingly watching himself play.

Others were much sillier. Cutouts of guard dogs and an unfortunate-looking blobfish were

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