The 60 games scheduled for next week have been canceled (German link), officials and politicians are issuing statements on an hourly basis to cover up the utter lack of networking between Saxony's soccer association, soccer clubs, fan clubs and authorities. Threats of retaliation and escalation are thick, such as, "The soccer mob must be aware that when police officers feel in danger of life and limb they will make use of their weapons." (Konrad Freiberg, head of the Police Union). Soccer violence, however, is not so much a problem of the big teams in the Erste and Zweite Bundesliga, it's the smaller clubs and amateur teams who are supposed to be closer to their clientel that are suffering from their fans' outbursts.
Saxony is not quite guiltless regarding the cult of violence that has grown around its local teams: Its government, along with three other states, refused an offer by the Deutscher Fussballbund (DFB) to finance one third of the funds necessary for fan projects, providing the state and the team's home town come up with another third each. Clubs such as Lok Leipzig and Dynamo Dresden, former high-class East German teams, are now struggling against their fans' image as rowdy hooligans and cannot rely on support by communal or state authorities to de-escalate the situation. In Leipzig, one sole social helper is responsible for the contact to the fans, four would be necessary. "The state is powerless when confronted with unprofessional fan networking", says Thomas de Maizière, Saxony's former Home Secretary and now Head of Merkel's office.
Another problem is the reluctance of the officials to dissociate themselves from their violent followers. The clubs rely on ticket revenue and donations and cannot always afford to pick and choose their supporters, a situation which has even led to former hooligans and current NPD members being elected to club offices.
If state and clubs cannot find a permanent solution to the problem some clubs may have to be dissolved, removing the region's symbols of identification and leading to more dissatisfaction and violent potential.