Articles tagged with "hertha-bsc-berlin"
Matchday 12: Captain Future
By Jan | November 10th, 2009The clubs at the top of the table keep crawling along. The clubs at the bottom keep sinking. Referees had a forgettable weekend and in ...
What it Took to be a Bundesliga Fan in East Germany
By Jan | November 9th, 200920 years ago the Berlin Wall fell. Depending on who you ask it was either because of David Hasselhof, an accident or a peaceful revolution ...
Champions/Europa League Matchday 4: Hertha FCB
By Jan | November 5th, 20093 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat for Bundesliga clubs in Europe this week. The good news is that five out of six have it ...
Matchday 11: A Day at the Snail Races
By Jan | November 2nd, 2009The top of the league collectively dropped points, allowing Hoffenheim to close the gap but not much more. The bottom of the league collectively dropped ...
The Numbers Game: Matchday 11
By Jan | November 2nd, 2009We keep it strictly binary this week. 0. The combined number of goals Bayern's strike duo Miroslav Klose and Luca Toni scored so far this season. 1. ...
Champions/Europa League Matchday 3: It Takes Two
By Jan | October 22nd, 20092 Blackouts. Stuttgart continued to show signs of life in their game against Sevilla and they continued to produce stupid defensive lapses, which continually cost ...
The Numbers Game: Matchday 9
By Jan | October 19th, 2009It wasn't a good weekend for exciting football. It was a good weekend for exciting numbers. Or rather, a good weekend for those who can ...
Weekly Dose 07.10.09
By Jan | October 7th, 2009The next generation of hooliganism is digital. (ESPN Soccernet). To attend Hertha's home games in Berlin's Olympiastadion just walk down Jesse Owens Alley and then turn ...
Fun while it lasted
By Chris | October 6th, 2009This stay at the top of the table, yeah, enjoy it while you can. 'Cause chances are we aren't hanging around too much longer. . ...
Bundesliga Matchday 8: The Tragedy of Errors
By Jan | October 5th, 2009Establishing something comparable to England's Big Four remains a distant dream for last season's top four in the Bundesliga. Wolfsburg are 7th after disappointingly drawing ...
Bundesliga Matchday 7: Ze Roberto to F4. Checkmate.
By Jan | September 28th, 2009Hamburg remain in control of the top, Hertha remain in control of the bottom and with his wins over Bochum, Dortmund and the Schalke fans ...
Weekly Dose 23.09.09
By Jan | September 23rd, 2009Hertha Berlin - where dreams metaphors become reality. (Ballspiel) Kicking you while you are down: Raphael Honigstein hands out some more Hertha bashing. (Guardian) Let Uli Hesse-Lichtenberger ...
Bundesliga Matchday 6 Wrap-Up
By Jan | September 21st, 2009Extra Time. We can end the debate about where the seven minutes of extra time came from in the Manchester derby. They were taken from ...
Champions/Europa League Matchday 1 Wrap-Up
By Jan | September 17th, 2009Three wins, two draws and one defeat makes for a balanced but not too glorious start to this year's European season. Wolfsburg. You are never too ...
Bundesliga 2009/2010: What is New? What is the Same?
By Jan | September 2nd, 2009Sorry for letting this blog rot away in the late August sun for so many weeks. Other work took over and left some time but ...
The Bundesliga Offside Bundesliga Season Preview
By Jan | August 6th, 2009It's time to preview the eight most important teams of the upcoming Bundesliga season. Bayern Pre-Season: Bayern's pre-season started like all pre-seasons during odd numbered years by ...
DFB-Pokal First Round: Famous 45, Heroic 90, Epic 120 and Transcendental 119:57
By Jan | August 5th, 2009There is much to like about the DFB-Pokal. First of all, its' format contrasts nicely with all other season long competitions. A pure knockout tournament. ...
Reality Check: No You Couldn't
By Jan | July 17th, 2009There are some clubs in the Bundesliga where even Obama fails. Energie Cottbus grabbed a lifeline by securing the relegation play-off spot, but ended up having ...
Transfer Talk: The Hunter and the Hunted
By Jan | July 15th, 2009The transfer period started with two early big money moves. In fact, very big money moves anywhere outside of Madrid. Diego sealed a transfer to ...
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, ...
First of many
By Chris | June 9th, 2009. . . Transfer rumors regarding current HSV players. Today, it is Mladen Petric and an offer from Bundesliga champs VfL Wolfsburg. Die Wölfe have made ...
Quick hits
By Chris | June 3rd, 2009Quick news bites to fill the start of the offseason . . . •Winter transfer flops Marcel Ndjeng, Albert Streit, Michael Gravgaard, and Khalid Sinouh were ...
Bundesliga Season Finale Liveblog
By Jan | May 23rd, 2009What good is a liveblog in a tape-delayed world? I have no idea. I'll leave this philosophical question unanswered and let our American readers deal ...
Wolfsburg Close in on Title. Hamburg Close in on Supermassive Black Hole.
By Jan | May 18th, 2009Uli Hoeness predicted that this championship won't be decided on goal difference, but rather that someone would slip up, and he was right albeit in ...
Guide to the Bundesliga's Season Finale
By Jan | May 12th, 2009Three matchdays to go and there is still pretty much everything to play for at the top and the bottom of the table. A welcome ...
Solo Goals Galore: Raffael and Grafite and Krzynowek
By Jan | April 4th, 2009It was an uncharacteristic match for Hertha Berlin against Borussia Dortmund (1-3). Their defense and goalkeeper weren't infallible and their offense wasted dozens of chances ...
The Bundesliga Money League
By Jan | March 13th, 2009I never heard of Goldman Morgenstern & Partners Financial Intelligence Service before, but they published a press release which lists the turnover of each Bundesliga ...
Weekly Dose 11.03.09
By Jan | March 11th, 2009The way they play one-touch football in the 2. Bundesliga. (101 Great Goals) The way a 3. Liga keeper made himself immortal. (YouTube) The way SoccerLens wraps ...
Stat of the Day: Hertha Explained
By Jan | March 10th, 2009Statistics haven't been too kind to Hertha this season. Wether you look at possession, shots on target or one-on-one situations - all the bragging rights ...
Photo: Heavy Metal
By Jan | March 9th, 2009So now we finally know what Andriy Voronin needs that ponytail for and what happens with it, once he takes the hair tie off \m/. ...
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