In the end, yes: Fortuna Düsseldorf humiliate Hertha BSC in the relegation playoff. Top-class relegation chaos unfolded in May 2012. Düsseldorf, the third-placed second-division side, had stormed Berlin’s Olympiastadion with a 2–1 win and handed then-top-flight Hertha BSC a painful defeat. The Berliners could not undo it in the cauldron of the Düsseldorf arena on 15 May 2012 – 2–2. A pitch invasion by Fortuna fans nearly brought everything down.
Hertha protested after the interruption and tied themselves in knots with questionable statements in court. The DFB rejected Hertha’s request for a replay. Düsseldorf went up anyway, despite the chaos shortly before the end.