Articles tagged with "hertha bsc berlin"
My Fair Lady: Hertha's Road to Europe
By Jan | May 19th, 2008The old lady Hertha is back in Europe. The club topped the national Fair Play Ranking and will compete in next season't UEFA Cup as a reward. The Bundesliga Offside recaps the three crucial moments in Hertha's UEFA Cup spot clinching season. 1. Jo ...
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: Good Byes
By Jan | May 18th, 2008Bayern said good bye to Oliver Kahn and Ottmar Hitzfeld, Hamburg said good bye to Huub Stevens and the Bundesliga Offside says good bye to another week of blogging. Anna bid farewell to Silvio Meißner. (Stuttgart Offside) ...and will soon have ...
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 ...
Time for Frankfurt and Berlin to be on their best Behaviour
By Jan | May 13th, 2008The Bundesliga has won an additional UEFA Cup berth, following a draw including the seven fairest and wisest leagues in Europe. Now it's up to the DFL to decide which team in the Bundesliga honoured the Fair Play ideal the most and thus earns the hon ...
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. ...
Snapshot: Two-in-One
By Jan | May 8th, 2008I have the rare honour to spell the names Valeri Domovchiyski and Lukas Sinkiewicz in the same sentence. Valeri plays for Hertha and Lukas plays for Leverkusen. The two played against each other on Wednesday. Hertha ended up putting more misery on Le ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Snapshot: Use the Force, Lulu!
By Jan | March 31st, 2008Here's Hertha's coach Lucien Favre practising his Jedi skills. Grown confident in his abilities, he then tried to apply his powers on his players. With little success, as Cottbus beat Hertha 2-1. ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
10 Things we learned from Matchday 24
By Jan | March 18th, 20081. Luca Toni goes down easily. Call him a diver or an opportunist. When Bayern were trailing 1-0 at Cottbus, Luca Toni worked the slightest contact to his maximum advantage. He lost control of his body, fell to the ground and was awarded a questionable p
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: Welcome on Board
By Jan | March 16th, 2008Captain Bastian Schweinsteiger would like to welcome you on board of the Allianz Arena. Lift off to a different galaxy of football will be delayed due to unexpected problems with Anderlecht and Cottbus. Bastian would like to specifically welcome... Mi
Weekly Dose 12.3.08
By Jan | March 12th, 2008It might look like another my league is bigger than yours article (or for girls: my league is prettier than yours), but Chris Williams makes a good point about why it is difficult to compare leagues based on the specific nature of a cup competition and
10 Things we learned from Matchday 23
By Jan | March 11th, 20081. It have been tough 42 hours for Bremen. You can heap quite a bit of misery on a club in a timeframe of just 42 hours. First Tim Wiese helped Glasgow Rangers to a comfortable 2-0 home win in the UEFA Cup. Then Werder was forced to announce, that they h
The Way they were: Lucien Favre
By Jan | March 4th, 2008Here's Hertha's coach Lucien Favre circa 1987/88, sporting a slightly rockabilly haircut. Before he was hired to build a somewhat respectable legacy for an egomanic general manager at Berlin, before he won back-to-back Swiss championships with Zürich and
10 Things we learned from Matchday 22
By Jan | March 3rd, 20081. A lesson in the fine art of self destruction by Schalke 04. The merits of having the club's president publicly lame ducking a coach are generally questionable. Doing so ahead of two of the most crucial fixtures of the season is attention seeking, ...
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: Human Relations
By Jan | March 1st, 2008This week our bloggers studied the behaviour of people in groups, in particular but not exclusively groups of eleven. Abby discussed the problem of leadership. (Hertha Offside) Abby also presented a practical example of how a few small changes to th
10 Things we learned from Matchday 21
By Jan | February 26th, 20081. Sotirios Kyrgiakos is the Bundesliga's Marco Matterazzi. It wasn't a World Cup final, it has yet to prove to be title deciding, but it at least shares some similarities with the infamous incident. Diego is - statistically approved - the most fouled pl
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: Upon Critical Analysis...
By Jan | February 23rd, 2008...the Bundesliga Offside team of bloggers came to the following conclusions this week: Abby concluded that Bielefeld does exist (potentially). (Hertha Offside) Jan concluded that the UEFA Intertoto Cup is a trophy every team should strive to win. (
10 Things we learned from Matchday 20
By Jan | February 19th, 2008As a true football blogger I always think it to be appropriate to be kept away from blogging with nothing less than a calf strain, a torn ligament in my left knee or a thigh injury. At the end of the day though it was just a common cold. And now regular s
10 Things we learned from Matchday 19
By Jan | February 13th, 20081. There are entertaining 1-1 draws. You could call them borderline exciting draws as well. The top of the table clashes between Leverkusen and Hamburg and Bayern and Bremen didn’t really help anyone in terms of results, but yet you didn’t feel you j
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