

Articles tagged with "bayer-04-leverkusen"
Matchday 16: Sense and Sensibility
By Jan | December 11th, 2007A lot has happened but fairly little has changed this weekend. And tempers were running a bit wild. Borussia Dortmund 6-1 Arminia Bielefeld Borussia Dortmund have quite ...
Emo 04 Leverkusen
By Jan | December 11th, 2007It wasn't meant to be for Bayer Leverkusen back in 2002. Instead of winning their first ever Bundesliga and Champions League title, it was Neverkusen ...
Matchday 15: Move along, nothing to see here
By Jan | December 4th, 2007Abby, Chris and Angela already covered most of this weekend's biggest games, so this recap is basically just a quick reminder to visit their blogs. ...
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: Picks of the Week
By Jan | November 30th, 2007This week has been all about: Friendship - or lack of. (Hertha Offside) Team mates - or lack of. (Werder Offside) Beards. (Bundesliga Offside) Buttocks. (Bundesliga Offside) Kits. (Bundesliga Offside) European ...
Mischievous: Rene Adler exposes Sergej Barbarez' Butt
By Jan | November 26th, 2007Sergej Barbarez just went through a stereotypical villain-to-hero cycle at Bayer Leverkusen. First booed by the fans, he has by now proven to be a ...
Snapshot: Floodlights
By Jan | November 26th, 2007One of the few positive side-effects of the dark and cold winter days is the extensive use of floodlights at football stadiums. Bayer Leverkusen - ...
Weekly Dose 06.11.07
By Jan | November 5th, 2007I should have written a short blog post that mentions and celebrates the fact that Germany will host the Women's World Cup in 2011. To ...
Matchday 11: Twelve
By Jan | October 29th, 2007Twelve goals are better than eleven. Otherwise this matchday would have equaled the Bundesliga's negative record. The 26th matchday of the 1989/1990 season and the ...
UEFA Cup: Four out of Four
By Jan | October 4th, 2007Some good news from the European stage at last. The UEFA Cup may lack the mass appeal of its big European brother, but it's still ...
Matchday 8: Over- and Underachievements
By Jan | October 2nd, 2007I had already started covering a tiny bit (the Friday night match bit) of this matchday in a previous post, and some sad news came ...
UEFA Cup Round Up
By Jan | September 20th, 2007Bayer Leverkusen 3-1 Uniao Leiria Leverkusen controlled a good portion of the match but were always vulnerable at the back and too generous with their chances ...
Matchday 4: Best of the Weekend
By Jan | September 4th, 2007Best goal celebration a) Manasseh Ishiaku (MSV Duisburg) b) A team effort by Boubacar Sanogo, Diego and Hugo Almeida (Werder Bremen) Best young goalkeeper a) Manuel Neuer (Schalke 04) b) ...
Matchday 4: Things we always knew and Things we almost forgot
By Jan | September 4th, 2007Bayern Munich isn't invincible Though it took 87 minutes on Sundays match against Hamburg to come to this conclusion. When I read that Rafael van der ...
UEFA Cup Draw: Relive the Excitement
By Jan | August 31st, 2007Matchday 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) ...
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 ...
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, ...
DFB-Pokal: First Round Summary
By Jan | August 7th, 2007The early rounds of the DFB-Pokal or any domestic cup competition are rare places, where negative, destructive and defensive football is cherished and encouraged. It's ...
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 ...
Buli News Roundup: Kahn's future in Asia and a few exciting Transfer Stories
By Jan | July 3rd, 2007Lactate Testing is currently all the buzz since Jürgen Klinsmann sharpened the media's attention for the importance of an athletes' fitness levels. A footballer that gets ...
Everybody loves Werder Bremen
By Jan | June 22nd, 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 ...
Tourist Attraction of the Day: Kickabouts with Bernd Schneider
By Jan | June 21st, 2007This about concludes my Bernd Schneider trilogy for today. It's a little anecdote I recently picked up. Bernd Schneider went on holiday to Sardinia right ...
Insight of the Day: Bernd Schneider proves Klinsmann right
By Jan | June 21st, 2007The German FA was in a desperate situation, when Jürgen Klinsmann took over the job as Germany's new national coach in 2004. This desperate situation ...
Rumour of the Day: Bernd Schneider to Real Madrid
By Jan | June 21st, 2007Today's rumour was kicked off by Bernd Schuster. It's not even decided yet whether the FC Getafe coach will take over Fabio Capello's job in ...
Best Bundesliga Goals 2006/2007: Honorable Mentions
By Jan | June 3rd, 2007Diego - Preuß - Schlaudraff - Hitzlsperger - van der Vaart - Honorable Mentions Serving as a little refill here are two goals I didn't include ...
The Big Bundesliga Season Finale Preview
By Jan | May 18th, 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 ...
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 ...





