Separated at Birth: Per Mertesacker and Mesut Özil and the Playmobil Giraffe and Zookeeper

Weekly Dose 14.10.09

One of these things is not like the others: Football, Louis van Gaal, Empathy. (NRC Handelsblad) Form is temporary. Fate is permanent? (ESPN Soccernet) They've got beer ...

Daily Dose: October 11th, 2009.

Stuff to read while you see Argentina's World Cup chances saved by the bar (1:00)..... The Barcelona blog returneth. Six times over. (Barca Offside) Discovering the internet ...

Europa League Preview: Werder vs. Nacional

Tomorrow Werder head to Portugal to take on Nacional in their first match of the new Europa League campaign. Considering we were the runners-up last ...

Hibernation coming to an end..

Just a reminder, the Bayern-Dortmund match will be shown on GOLTV live at 9:30 EST on Saturday. I am hoping to do another live ...

Spotlight on: Mesut Özil

So we've made it through the international break unscathed, it seems. On Saturday, the Werder lads did well in their matches - Pasanen scored the ...

Weekly Dose 16.07.09

Red Bull are allowed to bend the rules to the max, for the sake of competitive Bundesliga football in eastern Germany... (Spiegel Online) ... and they ...

Daily Dose: June 16th, 2009

Something to read while you watch the Nani/Almedia vs Postiga/Veloso FootVolley final... A very generous goalkeeper (SoccerBloopers) Hernan Rengifo is the new Macaulay Culkin (SportsRubbish) Games decided by ...

Özil and Marin Give Bremen Fans a Taste of What's to Come

On the left: Werder Bremen's youngster and designated Diego replacement Mesut Özil. On the right: Mönchengladbach's youngster and designated new Werder Bremen signing Marko Marin. In ...

Photo: The Last Supper

From left to right: Mesut Özil, Per Mertesacker, Claudio Pizarro, Tim Wiese, Torsten Frings et al celebrate their DFB-Pokal victory over Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday ...

you knew this was coming

As I expected Mesut Özil has drawn a three-match suspension for his late sending off against VfL Bochum. Özil received a red-card with six minutes ...

Green-Whites face huge test against Bayer Leverkusen

Chewing and spitting out their Bundesliga competition, Bayer Leverkusen visits Bremen today in a mid-week match-up. Following the recent disappointing performances the Green-Whites need to ...

derby ends in a draw

The Green Whites trip to Hannover ended in disappointment as they stumbled to a 1-1 draw. Thomas Schaaf was significantly handicapped with a number of ...

Werder Bremen: The Most Exciting Team in Europe?

Fresh off of last week's 5-2 win over Bayern Munich, Werder Bremen welcomed fairytale team Hoffenheim to the Weserstadion.... and put five past them too. Bremen ...

Weekly Dose 24.09.08

The best of the worst Bundesliga "haircuts". (BILD.de) Six goals and two assists in five Bundesliga matches = Hoffenheim's Vedad Ibisevic. (SoccerBlog.com) Olli Kahn: where has all ...

Bremen Bludgeon Bayern in Munich

Well who's the Big Bad Wolf now? Werder Bremen went into Bayern's house and put on an absolute demolition derby, taking a 5-0 lead until ...

Mesut Özil Would Like Arsenal, We Would Like Him To Get A Haircut

I don't know what's in the water in Gelsenkirchen, but whatever it is it isn't good. As you can see in the picture to the ...