Articles tagged with "teams"
Northern Derby: From Vander to van der Vaart
By Jan | December 3rd, 2007Werder Bremen's reserve goalkeeper Christian Vander holds a unique record. In 22 Bundesliga matches he made 6 serious mistakes. This is a ratio that even ...
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: Picks of the Week
By Jan | November 30th, 2007This week has been all about: Friendship - or lack of. (Hertha Offside) Team mates - or lack of. (Werder Offside) Beards. (Bundesliga Offside) Buttocks. (Bundesliga Offside) Kits. (Bundesliga Offside) European ...
Champions League Matchday 5: Late Bloomers
By Jan | November 30th, 2007Just as the Bundesliga clubs were all a little late to the Champions League party, I'm a little late with this short wrap up. But ...
Artifacts from the 90s: Ugly Borussia Dortmund Kits
By Jan | November 27th, 2007From left to right: Season 1991/1992, Season 1992/1993 and Season 1993/1994. In 1992 Dortmund finished second behind Stuttgart, followed by two fourth place finishes. In ...
Matchday 13: Comebacks
By Jan | November 27th, 2007Thirty goals spread out over nine matches made for an entertaining weekend, that nonetheless left me feeling a bit unsatisfied. Mostly because it lacked any ...
Mischievous: Rene Adler exposes Sergej Barbarez' Butt
By Jan | November 26th, 2007Sergej Barbarez just went through a stereotypical villain-to-hero cycle at Bayer Leverkusen. First booed by the fans, he has by now proven to be a ...
Snapshot: Floodlights
By Jan | November 26th, 2007One of the few positive side-effects of the dark and cold winter days is the extensive use of floodlights at football stadiums. Bayer Leverkusen - ...
Beardwatch: Kevin Kuranyi
By Jan | November 26th, 2007Kevin Kuranyi has once again proven his worth for Schalke 04 this weekend. Schalke beat Hanover 3-2 and Kuranyi scored the first two goals himself ...
Perfect Match: Armin Veh - Eerie Castle
By Jan | November 25th, 2007Here's Stuttgart's coach Armin Veh, presumably watching a flock of bats flying over the stadium in Frankfurt. Judging by the position of his feet, he ...
Weekly Dose 25.11.07
By Jan | November 25th, 2007A new adidas commercial to go with the new German national team kit. (YouTube) Latest rumours: Jürgen Klinsmann and Bernd Schuster are linked to the England ...
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: They've given their all
By Jan | November 23rd, 2007As 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 ...
Bookmark: Oliver Kahn's Chinese Homepage
By Jan | November 23rd, 2007Oliver Kahn is currently enjoying the last season of his professional football career and as of next summer he'll be our man in Asia. His ...
Snapshot: Bare Knuckle Boxing
By Jan | November 22nd, 2007Werder Bremen's Carlos Alberto and Boubacar Sanogo settle an argument during a training session. Thomas Schaaf has suspended both for the match against Cottbus.
International Break Wrap-Up: Olic, Simunic and Petric do their part to sink/help England
By Jan | November 21st, 2007The story of this European matchday must be England's defeat at home against Croatia. After Israel threw them a massive lifeline on Saturday with their ...
Odd Couple: Per Mertesacker and Squidward Tentacles
By Jan | November 20th, 2007OK, I need to revise my original assumption regarding this Per Mertesacker photo. There was something else that drew me to it.
Weekly Dose 20.11.07
By Jan | November 20th, 2007I skipped one week, because I wasn't busy enough collecting links. But here's an extra long episode you can skim through while listening to a ...
International Break Wrap-Up: Confidence Boosts for Valdez, Podolski and Simunic
By Jan | November 19th, 2007International breaks are one of those unnecessary evils our poor club officials have to cope with these days. In the worst case players pick up ...
Tutorial: Rant like Uli Hoeneß
By Jan | November 14th, 2007Bayern Munich, like all other Bundesliga clubs, are organised as a membership association, and as such they held their annual meeting yesterday. And it could ...
Matchday 13: Diego's two Goals against Karlsruhe
By Jan | November 12th, 2007To serve Angharad's request from an earlier post, here are the two goals Diego scored against Karlsruhe (4-0). Two fine individual efforts, well worth requesting, ...
Matchday 13: Hitzfeld's heavy Rotation under heavy Criticism
By Jan | November 12th, 2007Now, that Bayern Munich stopped winning each and every game by a three to five goal margin, it's time to analyse, what surely has to ...
Snapshot: Benchwarmer
By Jan | November 12th, 2007From left to right: wunderkind Toni Kroos, Marcell Jansen, Lukas Podolski and Mark van Bommel. Four great captions waiting for you.
Matchday 13: Time to move a bit closer together and have a Title Race
By Jan | November 12th, 2007It's buckling the trend time in the Bundesliga. So much so in fact, that I'll do my whole matchday report in form of buckled trends. Global ...
Matchday 13: VfB Stuttgart 3-1 Bayern Munich
By Jan | November 10th, 2007Serving the most important result first, before regular matchday coverage resumes tomorrow. Goals by Gomez and Bastürk for Stuttgart and Luca Toni scored a late ...
FC Nuremberg: Cup Winners, Guitar Heroes
By Jan | November 10th, 2007Abby from the Hertha Offside is running a small series titled Reasons Why The Bundesliga Is Awesome. It already featured club branded toasters and private ...
Analysis: Competitive Balance in Europe's Big Five Leagues after 11 Matchdays
By Jan | November 8th, 2007A bit over one-third of the Bundesliga season is over now, and I thought it's time to cater to the statistic nerds among my readers ...
Snapshot: Kevin Kuranyi
By Jan | November 7th, 2007Schalke's injured Kevin Kuranyi during the Champions League match against Chelsea. Seeing how Schalke dominated Chelsea, it's a shame that he couldn't help them find ...
Champions League: Ifs and thens
By Jan | November 6th, 2007One half of this week's Champions League matchday is over, though since Stuttgart is basically dead already, I can start sketching out my favourite scenarios ...
Weekly Dose 06.11.07
By Jan | November 5th, 2007I should have written a short blog post that mentions and celebrates the fact that Germany will host the Women's World Cup in 2011. To ...
Snapshot: Breathe, breathe, breathe, push, push, push.
By Jan | November 5th, 2007Here's Stuttgart's Mario Gomez during the match against Nuremberg. Alternative captions are welcome.
Matchday 12: Mario Gomez' Goal against Nuremberg
By Jan | November 4th, 2007This great individual effort was enough to seal a 1-0 away victory over Nuremberg. Two consecutive wins in the league for Stuttgart doesn't mean they're ...
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