A pyrotechnics ban remains in place at German football matches, and football officials have also agreed at a meeting with politicians on Friday to centralize stadium ban procedures for violent fans. Both decisions were swiftly dismissed by fan organizations as “populist”, and top football official Hans-Joachim Watzke said prior to the Munich meeting that football had no major problem with violence. Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann had invited politicians from other federal states and representatives from the German Football Federation (DFB) and the league DFL to a top-level meeting …