Articles tagged with "hamburger sv"
Weekly Dose 14.05.08
By Jan | May 14th, 2008I recently joined Angela over at the Germany World Cup Blog to do some Euro 2008 blogging. Daryl suggested we post more often now to build a readership ahead of the tournament. But I've already gone through the process with this blog, so why all t ...
10 Things we learned from Matchday 33
By Jan | May 14th, 20081. Rostock and Duisburg return to the second division. They went from newly-promoted to newly-relegated over the course of one season. Duisburg lost against Bayern at home (2-3), despite staging a semi-remarkable comeback after Lukas Podolski had ma ...
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 ...
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: With the Grace and Beauty of Tim Wiese
By Jan | May 11th, 2008That's how we did our blogging this week. Anna had a little present for Bayern Munich. (Stuttgart Offside) Stuttgart finally get a dedicated football stadium arena. (Stuttgart Offside) Tim Wiese is walking in Toni Schumacher's shadow. (Bunde ...
10 Things we learned from Matchday 31 and 32
By Jan | May 9th, 2008It was a busy week of Bundesliga football. And it was a busy week for me as well, so I focused my attention on the inevitable and the ugly. But there was more happening in the league, and it's time to catch up with it in this double header edition. ...
Quote of the Day: Tim Wiese doesn't give a Shit
By Jan | May 8th, 2008"Some referees probably give a red card for this, but I don't give a shit about it now. We won the game." Tim Wiese in his post match interview after a heated northern derby between Hamburg and Bremen ended 1-0 for the visitors. The ...
Weekly Dose 08.05.08
By Jan | May 8th, 2008Bayern Munich is the 5th most valuable football club in the world, followed by Schalke 04 in 10th, Dortmund in 15th, Hamburg in 17th and Bremen in 18th position. Don't take Forbes' data about the clubs too literally though. They will try and tell ...
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 ...
It is done
By Chris | May 6th, 2008We have our new manager. And he is Martin Jol, formerly with Spurs. Here are links to the story in Goal.com , Bild.de , and Hamburg Morgenpost. The announcement will be made publicly on Friday 9 May. (wait for it.) (wait for it.) ( ...
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: We See and Hear Everything
By Jan | May 3rd, 2008And then we blog about it. Borussia Dortmund's new jersey. (Borussia Dortmund) Borussia Dortmund's new money. (Borussia Dortmund) Miroslav Klose's new nose. (Bayern Offside) Hertha's old friends. (Hertha Offside) Willy Sagnol's new dance. ...
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 ...
10 Things we learned from Matchday 30
By Jan | April 29th, 20081. Only math stands in Bayern's way now. Bayern beat Stuttgart 4-1 on Sunday. Angela blogged about how it happened and then Anna blogged about why it happened. Now I blog about how Bayern top the table with a 12 point lead. 20 goals stand between th ...
Bundesliga Offside Rewind 19.04.08
By Jan | April 19th, 2008Welcome to a revised edition of my weekly blog internal handing out of link love. From now on you can check out the highlights of one week of Bundesliga blogging and try to guess who is the player/coach/manager on the picture on the right. Twice the ...
Company man
By Chris | April 16th, 2008Not Kompany man. n. A man whose primary allegiance is to his employer (look whose pic is in the dictionary with that definition). He's not going to let another summer go by and miss out on millions by staying with HSV. Nope, he's encour ...
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 ...
10 Things we learned from Matchday 28
By Jan | April 15th, 20081. Nuremberg can no longer finish their matches. Last week Nuremberg's match against Frankfurt was stopped for 20 minutes, after some people from Nuremberg's travelling support burned firecrackers and threw a flare onto the pitch. This Friday Nuremb ...
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 ...
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: Hungry for more
By Jan | April 5th, 2008More team blogs: Check out Anna's VfB Stuttgart Offside. (Stuttgart Offside) More power: The Offside is the 35th most powerful blog in the world. Beware. More team blogs: Angela is looking for more bloggers. (Bayern Offside) More shit than y ...
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 ...
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 ...
10 Things we learned from Matchday 26
By Jan | March 31st, 20081. Nothing. The teams at the top of the table couldn't win their games. The teams at the bottom of the table didn't lose their games. As such no team gained a lot of ground, nor did any team lose a lot of ground. And when the six best teams in the l ...
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 ...
5 Things we learned during the International Break
By Jan | March 28th, 20081. Hamburg are missing out. Just look at that photo. Though, Croatia didn't really impress in their friendly against Scotland (1-1) and neither Dortmund's Mladen Petric nor Bremen's Ivan Klasnic could put their names on the score sheet. I'm still a ...
5 Things the Bundesliga Offside Bloggers learned from Matchday 25
By Jan | March 27th, 2008I spent my weekend telling lies to my relatives, which depending on their age were about bunnies and candy, and depending on their favourite team, were about how Hamburg or Bremen still have a chance of winning the title. It was an entertaining diver ...
5 Things the Bundesliga Offside Bloggers learnt from Matchday 25
By Jan | March 27th, 2008I spent my weekend telling lies to my relatives, which depending on their age were about bunnies and candy, and depending on their favourite team, were about how Hamburg or Bremen still have a chance of winning the title. It was an entertaining diver ...
Brawl in the Bundesliga
By Chris | March 27th, 2008I was trying to come up with a WWE-esque title for this post, which really is about the chase for 2 of the 3 Champions League spots in the Bundesliga. I am not conceding the title to Bayern Munich by any stretch, but it will take a collapse of 1964 P ...
News and Notes
By Chris | March 26th, 2008Slow news week on the club front in the Bundesliga with the international break and HSV having crashed out of European competition. Here's a quick list of Hamburg guys who are playing for their countries this week: Raphael van Der Vaart, Nig ...
Try to follow me
By Chris | March 25th, 2008I wrote a pretty lengthy entry about this earlier. We all know that Raphael van Der Vaart is leaving HSV one way or another after this season. His destination is what remains up in the air. We have heard Valencia, Milan, Juventus, and Inter(?!)since ...
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: Posts that made Oliver Kahn go...
By Jan | March 23rd, 2008Lukas Podolski and Jiayi Shao fought out one of the most exciting draws of the season. (Bundesliga Offside) Borussia Dortmund is back in Europe and the Dortmund Offside is back in action. (Dortmund Offside) Chris wrote an informative post ab ...
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