“Battle of the windmills” is the title in Manager Magazin of 19th October 2006 for a report by Rita Syre on the Dow Jones Media Workshop with the title “Sportwetten am Wendepunkt?” (“sports betting at a turning point?”). Syre compares the situation of the state’s fight against the opening of the markets with Don Quijote’s battle against his imaginary foes – the windmills. The author did not choose the metaphor from literature incidentally, because it was the President of the Football Bundesliga Club TSV 1860 Munich, Stefan Ziffzer, who used this image during the event in Frankfurt and probably received the greatest amount of applause for the following apt choice of words.
