Articles tagged with "raphael-van-der-vaart"
Europa League - HSV v Celtic preview
By Chris | October 22nd, 2009News and notes ahead of today's match at Celtic Park . . . •Jerome Boateng made the trip to Glasgow but will not play--he twisted his ...
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 ...
Sad news
By Chris | June 17th, 2009Ran across this story today while trying to vet a comment I read on a MoPo article this morning. Sylvie van Der Vaart, the lovely and ...
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 ...
De Jong Update
By Chris | January 19th, 2009It's all done but the signing. HSV has agreed to Manchester City's transfer offer of €20.5M, and now all that's left is for De Jong's ...
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 ...
Friday Musings and Hertha Preview
By Chris | November 14th, 2008A look at the visit to Berlin to face Hertha, and a quick recap of the news as HSV continue down the road to good ...
Wednesday musings
By Chris | November 5th, 2008Lots of news coming out of Hamburg following yet another 3-0 loss on the road. A little bit of finger-pointing, followed by some introspection, and ...
Transfer Roundup - Yeehaw!
By Chris | August 28th, 2008For HSV supporters, the departures of Rafael van der Vaart and Vincent Kompany portended bad things to come. The club directors sold the most talented ...
More catching up
By Chris | August 11th, 2008A welcome return to the blogosphere for yours truly. Hamburg escaped with their pride in tact with a 3-1 victory over Ingolstadt in their opening match of ...
Latest on Van der Vaart
By Chris | August 1st, 2008Reports this morning on Spanish radio have VDV agreeing to a €9m transfer to Real. More after the drop. According to a story here, the deal ...
Catching up
By Chris | July 29th, 2008Lots of going on to report on, especially since I have written in a couple of weeks. •The Rafael van Der Vaart transfer saga may be ...
More Rumors, Lies & Inuendo, or Transfer "News" Redux
By Chris | June 20th, 2008A credible source (OK, a bit more credible than this one) has a story this morning about Hamburg starlet Rafael (or Raphael) van der Vaart. Seems ...
Manfred Kaltz's ramblings
By Chris | June 16th, 2008An interview with former HSV star Manfred Kaltz (who is 55, b-t-w. I cannot FREAKING believe that Manny Kaltz is 55; that makes me . . .) reveals ...
What a hoot
By Chris | June 16th, 2008Reading some of the trashier sites for a little club news during the Euro, I came across this gem, and nearly pissed myself. Welcome to ...
HSV News and Notes
By Chris | June 11th, 2008Please accept another apology for the lack of posts. Between the Euro '08 (lack of club news) and what's been happening in the town where ...
Where'd that come from?
By Chris | May 29th, 2008To all that read this blog, my apologies--I've been on a wonderful and well-deserved holiday sans laptop for over a week. It's been a little ...
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 ...
Short and sweet
By Chris | April 25th, 2008Tomorrow is the second of HSV's six-pointers versus other Bundesliga contenders. Ha. HSV aren't contenders anymore. If they somehow manage to sneak into the CL ...
Company man
By Chris | April 16th, 2008Not Kompany man. n. A man whose primary allegiance is to his employer (look whose pic is in the dictionary with that definition). He's not going to ...
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. ...
Hanseaten Highlights
By Chris | April 10th, 2008All the news that's fit to translate. . . *Real Bettis are in the market for a new striker and like what they see in Mohammed ...
HSV - Vfb Stuttgart Preview
By Chris | April 4th, 2008The big match this weekend in the Bundesliga. Hamburg come in trying to regain their form, which they apparently left on the pitch in their ...
Try to follow me
By Chris | March 25th, 2008I wrote a pretty lengthy entry about this earlier. We all know that Raphael van Der Vaart is leaving HSV one way or another after ...
By request
By Chris | March 20th, 2008I was reminded that one of my promises in starting up this blog was that I would post photos of the lovely Sylvie van Der ...
Winner! Winner! Lobster dinner!
By Chris | February 27th, 2008Updated : Bundesliga Offside captain Jan has a nice write-up on the Intertoto Cup "victory". Read it here. Overlooked in this space and others on The Offside was ...
That's more like it
By Chris | February 21st, 2008A 3-0 beatdown of relegation-bound Bochum in the B'liga and a 3-1 away win at Zurich in the UEFA Cup are the highlights of last week's action. THAT'S ...
News and Notes
By Chris | February 12th, 2008I can't bring myself to write about the match versus Leverkusen (as I couldn't to write about the Hannover match, either). Suffice it to say ...
News and notes
By Chris | January 16th, 2008HSV broke training camp in Dubai on Sunday after winning the Dubai Football Challenge Cup. RvDV, for one, looks happy to be back up North. Team notes: -Vincent ...
Serves him right
By Chris | January 12th, 2008Well, Raphael van Der Vaart's flirting FINALLY came back to bite him in the ass, as Juventus manager Claudio Ranieri was quoted yesterday as saying ...
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