What a difference an N makes

I've taken a little break for the international week, but events certainly have not, and with the possibility of a full scale revolt on our ...

FC Bayern vs Schalke 04: The Search For a Non-Stereotypical Storyline

This is a terrific match for a lazy writer. So many storylines fall right into your lap. For this occasion, I could: a) ...

Soundoff: Best Player/Manager In History (Uberman).

Earlier in the week we mentioned Johan Cruijff's return to the sidelines for the Catalonia national team. In the process, a certain sentence spilled across ...

Weekly Dose 16.09.09

Clean it like the Kaiser. (The Local) Bayer may be only second in the Bundesliga but are top of the York Monday Six-a-side Football Leisure League. ...

Görlitz scores against Görlitz, a goal for the ages remembered & other curiousities

FC Bayern was victorious in their Testspiel in Saxony against Gelb-Weiss Görlitz by the final count of 10:0. Former Bayern star Jens Jeremies was ...

As the Ribéry turns..

Cue the soap opera organ strains. It was a 3-ring Ribéry circus at the Säbener Strasse on Monday. Aïe! Of short term concern, Ribéry had ...

Lukas Podolski to come home

It is by no means a secret but Lukas Podolski is unhappy with his life in München and anxious to return "home." I have stressed ...

Weekly Dose 27.11.08

"It would have been unthinkable in our day.” - The Kaiser on Ribery's Pink revolution. (BILD) Meet Klinsmann Coleiro from Malta. (American Arena) Mourning the death of ...

Bayer Leverkusen are fairly good

So maybe that is a "slight" understatement because in-truth Bayer Leverkusen is first in the table for a good reason as no-one has been able ...

Bayern squeezes out tough victory with great defense

As expected Bayern's visit to Veltins-Arena was a tough match and although Schalke controlled possession of the ball throughout the majority of it, they fell ...

the Bavarian's come to town

Following Karlsruher's incredible three-goal comeback against Bayer Leverkusen, Bayern's visit of Veltins-Arena takes an even greater importance in the table. After getting off to a ...

send Jürgen back

The words I hope to hear sing out through the media post the match I have been waiting for all season. Heading into Saturday's visit to ...

Weekend Quiz Answers: Who Were Those Legends?

First, if you haven't yet done our Weekend Quiz, stop by this post to see if you can identify our players. So who were ...

Weekly Dose 12.09.08

Germany's worst football team is looking for sponsors. (Spiegel Online) Why take a new photo of Jens Lehmann, when an intern with a pirated copy of ...

Bayern May Be Getting More Italian

Big changes were afoot in Germany last summer after their dismal and downright unacceptable campaign last year, at least by Bayern's "record champion" standards. Well ...

Classic Moment: Georg 'Katsche' Schwarzenbeck's late Equaliser against Atlético Madrid

It was the European Champions Cup (as in: Champions League) final in Brussel back in 1974. Bayern had reached the final for the first time. ...

Weekly Dose 6.2.08

They are making jokes about Bielefeld's (ex-)coach of the century (Power) Ernst Middendorp down in South Africa. (allAfrica.com) A puff-piece about Jogi Löw. (uefa.com) An article about ...

Prodded by the Press, Beckenbauer Hits on Mourinho

In the wake of Ottmar Hitzfeld's resignation as Bayern Munich gaffer (effective at the end of the season), Franz Beckenbauer is now officially on the ...

Blue Steel: Franz Beckenbauer vs Zoolander

If you always wondered what Franz Beckenbauer was doing on the 15th of September 1982 from 11.45am to 7.40pm...

...then let me help you out and fill you in with the details. 11.45am Beckenbauer uses the border crossing at Heinrich-Heine street and declares his intentions ...

Weekly Dose 22.09.07

The German national team is the fourth best football team in the world according to this month's FIFA World Ranking. (FIFA.com) The Bundesliga is the fourth ...

Franz Beckenbauer's NASL Farewell Match

Some users on YouTube have remarkable collections of vintage football videos, and I hope that their accounts aren't as much in danger of being shut ...

King Ribéry and Kaiser Franck

Bavaria has a king again. That's the slogan greeting pedestrians passing by Munich's Theatiner Church. The church is currently undergoing some restoration work and the ...

Truisms

Uli Hoeness - General Manager of Bayern Munich and one of only two Germans to ever miss a penalty (doesn't that fact make him all ...

Truisms

Uli Hoeness - General Manager of Bayern Munich and one of only two Germans to ever miss a penalty (doesn't that fact make him all ...

A Name to Remember: Mario Gomez

Fans of the German Bundesliga are already very familiar with the name Mario Gomez. The 21-year-old VfB Stuttgart forward is currently tied for the ...

The Call for Restrictions on Foreigners in Club Football Grows

The one and only Franz Beckenbauer has joined the list of people who think that proposals to force club teams to field at least six ...

Franz Beckenbauer Continues to be Everywhere

We're not sure if the guy in the blue shirt next to Bill Clinton at last night's New York Mets baseball game is really Franz ...