Articles tagged with "vfl bochum"
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Weekly Dose 20.3.08
By Jan | March 20th, 2008Create your own fan choreo; via probek.net. (madin.jp) Michael Ballack promotes a good cause. (International Herald Tribune) Rafael van der Vaart will leave a trail of dirt soaked water behind, when he leaves Hamburg with a title. (Goal.com) Stan
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, ...
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
die Tabelle lügen nicht! (02/07)
By Johnny on the Spot | February 8th, 20081. Bayern Munich Late in their match victory over Hansa Rostock, Hitzfeld switched Klose for Ottl and finally reverted from the toothless 4-4-2 to the dynamic 4-5-1 (or in their case a 4-2-3-1). Is he finally seeing the light? 2. Werder Bremen A bl
10 Things we learned from Matchday 18
By Jan | February 4th, 20081. If Bayern play bad their rivals will play worse. Or at least drop points, while Bayern won’t. Let’s take Hamburg for this weekend’s example. They played a toothless first half, went down 0-1 and then needed an improved second half to draw t ...
Transfers: The Summer Signings in Review
By Jan | February 1st, 2008The winter transfer window has just been closed, the second half of the season is about to kick off in a few hours and I had all the winter break to do a post like this one. But it wasn’t until yesterday, that I came across a page on the Gazetta dello S
Hertha Win the Swiss Battle
By Abby | October 30th, 2007Jan may have been complaining about the lack of goals in the Bundesliga this weekend, but someone forgot to tell Hertha that no one was scoring. Granted, two isn't a huge amount, but I think fans of most teams would take a solid two-nil victory. Whi
Bochum Preview
By Abby | October 27th, 2007My very first match preview as a real live blogger. I should bronze it and send it to my mother, or something. Anyway, the boys in blue are facing…well, another group of boys in blue. VfL Bochum, one of the approximately 8,000* Bundesliga clubs l
Matchday 10: We're Chasing Bayern on a Moped
By Jan | October 23rd, 2007That's how Karlsruhe's coach Ede Becker described the club's situation in the title race, after they claimed the second place in the table two weeks ago. And Karlsruhe's moped dropped two points against Bielefeld and had to make way for Bremen's and Hambu
Side by Side: Puppies - VfL Bochum
By Jan | August 29th, 2007Puppies eating - VfL Bochum's players celebrating.
Matchday 3: Best of the Weekend
By Jan | August 28th, 2007Best Bundesliga Debut a) Tobias Grahn (Hertha BSC Berlin) b) Martin Harnik (Werder Bremen) Best Goal among Brothers a) Halil Altintop (Schalke 04) b) Hamit Altintop (Bayern Munich) Best Crossbar Effort a) Ivan 'Rocketic' Rakitic ...
Matchday 1: Top 3 Happy Coaches
By Jan | August 12th, 2007Yet another feature for the new season: random top 3's. Select your favourite coach for this matchday from my unbiased pre-selection. Marcel Koller (VfL Bochum) The classic. Happens when you come back into a match and draw it after being 2-0 down ...
Bundesliga 2007/2008: Pre-Season Friendly Marathon
By Jan | August 10th, 2007If you want to check out how each Bundesliga team performed during the off-season, here is all you need. All pre-season friendlies (I hope) and links to video highlights if available. Bayern Munich (5/0/3) 01.07. Bayern - FC Sao Paulo 2:1 06.07. FT
Bundesliga 2007/2008: Predictions for a perfect Season
By Jan | August 10th, 2007It's a big day today. The Bundesliga finally starts into the new season, and after Greg already gave you his fearless predictions for the Superliga, while Sam dubbed his Ligue 1 forecast fail-proof, I decided to tell you how everything will play out in th
Bundesliga 2007/2008: All Jerseys and Sponsors
By Jan | August 3rd, 2007I've tried to compile all the jerseys of all current Bundesliga clubs, so that we can judge, whether teams that are bound to play crap and go through a disappointing season at least die in beauty - or the other way round. I consider my work to be complete
Everybody loves Werder Bremen
By Jan | June 23rd, 2007At least according to the sports marketing company Sportfive. Sportfive conducted a little survey and asked 2000 people in Germany how they felt about football and Bundesliga clubs in particular. They upsampled the results to reflect the whole German popu
Lukas Podolski picks up more Honors
By Jan | June 5th, 2007One year ago at the World Cup: Lukas Podolski scores three goals and narrowly beats Christiano Ronaldo, who probably took one dive too many, to the Best Young Player Award. This season Lukas has upped the tally and scored a total of four goals which earne
The Big Bundesliga Season Finale Preview
By Jan | May 19th, 2007Well, this is actually just a normal Bundesliga Season Finale Preview without the big. I just put that word in the title in the hope to attract some extra readers. The big finale has probably already been last weekend. VfB Stuttgart took over the top spot
Bundesliga Matchday 33: A Tale of two Cities
By Jan | May 15th, 2007Rivalries are elementary ingredients to every good football league and in the part of Germany where I live they are impossible to avoid. The Rhine-Ruhr Area (within North Rhine-Westphalia) is an agglomeration of cities on a relatively small space that pro
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