A German fan group on Wednesday has welcomed the withdrawal of investment company Blackpool from potentially becoming a stragetic partner of the German Football League (DFL). “We are celebrating this as an interim success,” Unsere Kurve (Our Curve) chairman Jost Peter told dpa. “That was exactly what we wanted to achieve. Our protests were successful.” The DFL said late Tuesday in a statement to dpa that Blackstone was withdrawing “for various reasons after good talks.” It said that talks with the only other bidder, CVC, would continue, and that it would not go into details. “The DFL and the c…