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This post features something in my adopted home city of Vienna. Recently I paid a visit to the “Rapideum”. That’s the name of the museum of the football club Rapid Vienna (official full name: Sportklub Rapid, hence the abbreviation SKR), originally a working-class club of western Vienna (Hütteldorf). I had read about this museum in a book about hidden gems in Vienna and when I learned that the museum doesn’t shy away from the darker aspects of the club’s history, I was keen to go. I wasn’t disappointed. Read on …

Of course, much of the museum