

Articles tagged with "eredivise"
The Mountain Cometh
By Chris | July 17th, 2009The "Mountain" is a nickname given to a certain transfer target, who finally inked a five year deal after protracted negotiations over the fee to ...
Oh sh*t
By Chris | July 8th, 2009Loyal reader Manolo witnessed it first hand, and now it threatens the transfer strategy. Yep, Alex Silva twisted his knee and the worst is feared. In ...
Training camp, Day 3 wrap
By Chris | July 7th, 2009All's well that ends well, or something like that. As Jan pointed out in the comments of the last post, HSV have their man--Eljero Elia, ...
Quick hits
By Chris | July 1st, 2009Just back from my holiday and heading into Independence Day weekend here in the good old USA, but there are finally some signs of life ...
Let the Games Begin!
By Chris | June 8th, 2009Misdirection, obfuscation, and the old standby's, rumor and inuendo--Transfer Season, of course. Game on bitches! Who got next? There's a great story in the online edition ...
HSV -NEC Nijmegen Preview
By Chris | February 26th, 2009Now that the stage has been set by some great CL matches, it's time to get ourselves over to the real party in Euro club ...
Back in the High Life
By Chris | February 24th, 2009Even though the knockout round of the Champions League begins this evening (and if you read this blog, you know damn well who I am ...
NEC Nijmegen - Hamburg preview
By Chris | February 18th, 2009Die Rothosen travel to Nijmegen to take on NEC in the first knockout round of the Europa (ne: UEFA) Cup. Nijmegen come into the match 9th ...
What the hell was that? And yes, I'm still here
By Chris | February 16th, 2009Been a while since I last checked in and there has been a lot going on. Following the huge victory over Bayern on Matchday 18, ...
Great beginning
By Chris | February 5th, 2009Die Rothosen defeated nemesis Bayern Munich Friday evening to the tune of 1:0, in as good a football match as you are ever going to ...
Latest De Jong update
By Chris | January 21st, 2009As reported in this space earlier, HSV agreed to Manchester City's offer of 18-20 million Euro (depending on who you're asking) for the rights to midfielder ...
Back in the saddle
By Chris | January 2nd, 2009Howdy. Sorry for the long time between posts, but with Christmas and New Year's, and a death in the family mixed in the past week, ...
HSV - Aston Villa Preview
By Chris | December 17th, 2008When the UEFA Cup drawing was completed, the match between two former European champions (both Aston Villa and Hamburg) looked to be one of the most ...
This one's for Angela
By Chris | November 20th, 2008I ran across a story today on Welt.De which describes the leadership on the pitch for HSV (there isn't any) and the potential solution. Who ...
Wednesday musings
By Chris | November 19th, 2008Let's get right to it. Nice to have an international break to catch up on all the news. •Not sure whether you've heard or not, but ...
Break's over! Back to work you lot!
By Chris | October 17th, 2008As I have written previously, I like international football, but not necessarily friendlies or qualifying matches. That said, I did watch Wednesday's match between Germany ...
Catching up
By Chris | October 7th, 2008A lot has happened since my last post, and frankly you'll have to forgive me--my family life and my vocation have completely interfered with my ...
Stop the presses!
By Chris | August 27th, 2008The deal for Boca Juniors left back Luciano Fabian Monzon has, um, hit a snag. Reports last week had the Argentine international due into Hamburg ...
All the news that's out there
By Chris | August 26th, 2008Quick hitters from today's news. . . •Late word yesterday that Hamburg are "interested" In Heerenveen midfielder and USA international Michael Bradley. This is not the first ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Search Continues
By Chris | March 5th, 2008If you follow Hamburg or the Bundesliga at all, you know that HSV's manager Huub Stevens is leaving at the end of the current campaign ...
Weekly Dose 13.2.08
By Jan | February 13th, 2008Lothar Matthäus starring in a Gatorade commercial. (YouTube) The Athos, Portos and Aramis of the Bundesliga. Who'll be D'Artagnan then? (Reuters Soccer Blog) Once upon a time ...





