Articles tagged with "bundesliga"
Kahn retires with record
By Ian Rose | May 17th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r605PogyHvE[/youtube] The last game of legendary keeper Oliver Kahn's professional career was a fitting end for one of the all-time greats between the posts. Even though he let in one goal from Berlin, Kahn ...
Bayern 4 - 1 Hertha Berlin
By Angela | May 17th, 2008Today's match saw champions Bayern take on Hertha Berlin. It was the final match of both Oliver Kahn and Ottmar Hitzfeld. If Bayern can keep Hertha under two goals, they will have overthrown Werder Bremen's record of least goals conceded in a Bunde ...
Auf Wiedersehen to Oliver Kahn
By Daryl | May 15th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNOzHvsEmg4[/youtube] The Offside has made plenty of jokes about Oliver Kahn in our time, mostly because he's a big scary looking monster of a man. But he's also a world class keeper. Feast your eyes on the ...
Bayern Continue With The Touching Trend. Kinda.
By chris | May 15th, 2008It's been a touching week with the news that Oliver Kapo handed a boot boy the keys to a Mercedes because he didn't have a pair of shoes for him to take home, and Olof Mellberg having 3200 Aston Villa shirts custom made for the travelling fans to his ...
Bayern May Be Getting More Italian
By chris | May 13th, 2008Big changes were afoot in Germany last summer after their dismal and downright unacceptable campaign last year, at least by Bayern's "record champion" standards. Well big changes came, and with them a nice big trophy for being the best team in the Bu ...
The Unluckiest Goalkeeper in the Bundesliga
By Daryl | May 13th, 2008With just seven minutes to go in the game againt Borussia Dortmund this past Saturday, Arminia Bielefeld had a 2-1 lead that would have guaranteed safety from 1. Bundesliga relegation. But then disaster struck. It struck Rowen Fernández r ...
Daily Dose 5.12.08
By Laurie | May 12th, 2008Some news to read as you use a corpse head to smoke marijuana: Because 2000 naked people are the obvious way to promote a footy tournament (Euro 2008 at WCB) An England fan's ode to the Polish National Team (Poland Euro 2008) Photo Gall ...
Circling the drain
By Chris | May 12th, 2008Our Hanseaten heroes are back to their blundering ways, having lost any momentum they may have gained in their well-played defeat to Bremen, with their away loss to relegation-strugglers Cottbus. Cottbus, for their part, ensured that they will stay i ...
Squeeky Bum Time: All over Europe
By Ian Rose | May 11th, 2008It's May, and while most people in the world are reveling in the sunshine and flowers and all that, you and I have our minds elsewhere. It's title time, and it seems like every day around this time of year, some league or cup or other trophy is ...
Tim Wiese Kicks Ivica Olic in the Head. And Gets Away With It
By Daryl | May 8th, 2008Oh yes he did. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGplCUlBCtw[/youtube] As spotted on the ever-excellent Bundesliga Offside, this is Werder Bremen keeper Tim Wiese's challenge on Hamburg striker Ivica Olic during the Bundesliga's northern ...
Bring on Bremen, Redux
By Chris | May 6th, 2008Chalk one up for the success of avoiding predictions. Hamburg have the Northern Derby mid-week against arch rival Werder Bremen at the Bank (See how I've taken to calling the ground by some sort of nickname based on the ground's naming sponsor? It's ...
Title Watch Update
By Laurie | May 5th, 2008A couple of titles were settled this weekend, and a couple of challenges got more complicated. Here's what the Title Watch looks like after this weekend's games: Italy: Serie A In an odd turn of events, AS Roma were AC Milan's biggest fans this ...
Title Watch: Pray for Victory
By Daryl | May 2nd, 2008There are title races all over Europe this weekend. Some will get decided over the next two days, others are going to take a little longer. So, as a sort of Weekend Watch special, here's The Offside's guide to who's trying to get their hands on s ...
Resolution? Ha!
By Chris | May 2nd, 2008We should know by the end of this week month season year decade who the new manager is. There really isn't anything else left to write about this season. Last week in this space, I speculated that the club's directors hadn't talked to Ex-Spurs b ...
Highest Paid Footballers (and Guess Which MLS Star is #1?)
By Laurie | May 2nd, 2008The numbers are out. Guess who the #1 highest-paid footballer is? You'll never guess. I'll give you a hint. Plays in MLS. Has a "pop-star" wife. Made an estimated $49 million last year, of which only $12 million came from actually playing t ...
Clubs on the Verge of Domestic Titles
By Inara | April 26th, 2008Though there's still several weeks left in most European football leagues, some domestic title races are already over. In Portugal, Porto were declared champions (though they might be relegated) while in Greece, Olympiakos won their 36th title (thank ...
Short and sweet
By Chris | April 25th, 2008Tomorrow is the second of HSV's six-pointers versus other Bundesliga contenders. Ha. HSV aren't contenders anymore. If they somehow manage to sneak into the CL qualifying, they will have done so because one of the contenders (Schalke, Bremen, Stuttga ...
There's A Left Back For Sale
By chris | April 23rd, 2008Many fans knew who Philipp Lahm was before the World Cup in '06. Everybody knew who he was afterwards, and it took only the first six minutes of the tournament for most to sit up and take notice, as you can see above. Well now some people are sit ...
All About Promotion: Who's Coming Up in Europe?
By Laurie | April 17th, 2008The other day we talked about the rather depressing subject of relegation. Today though? The sun is shining, so let's move on to a much happier topic: Promotion. What second-level European teams may be moving up to the top flight? This is not ...
If Relegation Happened Today, Who Would Go Down?
By Laurie | April 15th, 2008Ah, relegation. It's every club's biggest dread. (With the probable exceptions of the EPL's Derby County, or French Ligue 1's Metz, or SPL's Gretna, where death might be the only event better able to offer pain relief.) And it's a rite of passage ...
Nevermind
By Chris | April 15th, 2008Nevermind that the Dinosaur lost to Duisburg (?!) at home Saturday. Nevermind that 4 regulars will be missing from the next match, including captain VDV. Nevermind that the side are in a complete freefall (I have had Tom Petty in my head non-stop sin ...
Hanseaten Highlights
By Chris | April 10th, 2008All the news that's fit to translate. . . *Real Bettis are in the market for a new striker and like what they see in Mohammed Zidan. *Despite having one foot out the door, Raphael van Der Vaart is still doing the right thing in the Hamburg comm ...
Monday mourning
By Chris | April 7th, 2008Turns out I am a realist. HSV dropped to third in the Bundesliga after Saturday's away defeat to current title-holders Stuttgart, 1-0. The story of the match was Hamburg's failure to capitalize on opportunities, particularly in the 2nd half when the ...
Bayern 3 - 1 Bochum
By Angela | April 6th, 2008Today Bayern Munich took on Bochum. The game kicked off intensely right away. Four minutes in saw Bochum step ahead by a goal from Azaouagh. The game was a pretty aggressive one from the start. van Bommel was shown a yellow card fifteen minutes i ...
HSV - Vfb Stuttgart Preview
By Chris | April 4th, 2008The big match this weekend in the Bundesliga. Hamburg come in trying to regain their form, which they apparently left on the pitch in their last UEFA Cup match versus Leverkusen, while Stuttgart comes in a pretty big roll--to the tune of 4 wins in th ...
Cinderella Finds Her Other Shoe
By chris | April 4th, 2008What has easily become the story of the European campaign on both fronts (Fenerbahce is still a Turkish powerhouse) is only getting sweeter by the day, as little Getafe took an unexpected draw away from Bavaria in the 90th minute against what is, ...
Everybody Wants Them Some Huntelaar & Mario Gomez
By chris | April 3rd, 2008We're hitting that part of the season where transfer rumors go from "ah, we'll see in six months" to "oh, maybe we should be thinking about these a little". Two of the best young names hitting the marker hard right about now are Klaas Jan Huntela ...
I can't make this sh*t up
By Chris | April 1st, 2008Top of the table drops 2 points on the road in the Bavarian derby, 3rd and 4th place are both defeated, and all HSV can manage is a draw versus a team in the drop zone. Way to see the big picture and take the bull by the horns. Oh, and Schalke l ...
A Tale Of Two Strikes
By chris | March 31st, 2008It was Zvjezdan Misimović's day in the sun playing against his old team and, as you can see above, scoring a gorgeous ball off the bounce just before the stroke of halftime. That is until Lukas Podolski got into the act in the 80th minute, havin ...
Hamburg - Bielefeld Preview
By Chris | March 28th, 2008HSV meet Arminia Bielefeld Saturday at the HSH. Huzzah! Hamburg come into the match 2nd in the Bundesliga on 46 points, but only 2 points up on Leverkusen, Bremen and Schalke (in 3rd through 5th places, respectively), and thus need the whole 3 point ...
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