Matchday 16: Sense and Sensibility

A 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

It 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

Abby, 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

This 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

Sergej 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

One 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

I 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

Twelve 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

Some 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

I 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

Bayer 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

Best 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

Bayern 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

Matchday 3: Best of the Weekend

Best 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

If 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

It'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

The 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

I'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

Lactate 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

At 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

This 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

The 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

Today'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

Diego - 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

Well, 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

Rivalries 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 ...