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

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 ...

Daily Dose: April 6th, 2009.

Stuff to read while you enjoy the worst starter-backup goalie combo in the world....... Per Mertesacker touches his captain in a special place. (Unprofessional Foul) Valencia might ...

Weekend Quiz Answers: Who Were Those Bundesliga and La Liga Players?

If you haven't already taken our weekend quiz on Bundesliga and La Liga players, stop by here first. Then come back to this post ...

Green Whites injury report

Looking ahead to the Green Whites match against Karlsruhe SC this Saturday, the club will likely welcome back a trio of Germany internationals Torsten Frings, ...

Green-Whites fight back

With the Green Whites recent stumble journalists have circled around throwing out ideas of a "crisis" in Bremen. Obviously most of these journalist types have ...

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 ...

Werder Bremen ready to battle in Greece

First off, I wanted to welcome everyone to Werder Bremen's new blog. I want to thank everyone at The Offside and of-course Daryl for giving ...

Friday Quicklinks

Hala Madrid! Well, we have Sunday's match v Espanyol to look forward to, and I think Corey's writing up a preview for that... but ...

Werder Bremen Housing Pugilists

A locker room/training room fight once in a season is excusable. It's a passionate game played by passionate players. Two brawls between teammates in the ...

Bundesliga Offside Rewind: They've given their all

As in: the German players who held Wales to a 0-0 draw at home, Jogi Löw who motivated them from the sidelines and the team ...

Odd Couple: Per Mertesacker and Squidward Tentacles

OK, I need to revise my original assumption regarding this Per Mertesacker photo. There was something else that drew me to it.

More Obscene Gestures from the Germany-Cyprus Match

It seems the uncovering of Jens Lehmann's obscene gesture towards the crowd in Hannover was only the tip of the iceberg. Further study of the ...

Snapshot: Matryoshka Doll

Michael Owen - Arne Friedrich - Per Mertesacker. England 1 - Germany 2.

Now for what you've all been waiting for......

With all of the transfer speculations this season and the continuing rumors of players coming and going I've been tossing around ideas of ideal players ...