Bundesliga Offside Rewind: With the Grace and Beauty of Tim Wiese
That’s how we did our blogging this week.
- Anna had a little present for Bayern Munich. (Stuttgart Offside)
- Stuttgart finally get a dedicated football
stadiumarena. (Stuttgart Offside) - Tim Wiese is walking in Toni Schumacher’s shadow. (Bundesliga Offside)
- Scarfs for girls or scarfs for fans? (Bundesliga Offside)
- Kaka and Eto’o could be playing for Berlin next season. (Hertha Offside)
- It took Hamburg’s professional coach scouting task force six months to sign Martin Jol. (Hamburg Offside)
- Angela had written a remarkable, insightful, funny, knowledgeable and witty blog post when suddenly… (Bayern Offside)
The Colour Pink
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Football in Germany has long been savoured as one of the last male refuges. As such anything pink has so far been exclusively reserved for Tim Wiese and his skin tight goalkeeper jerseys. But the times are changing and through the years more and more girls [...]
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10 Things we learned from Matchday 31 and 32
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It was a busy week of Bundesliga football. And it was a busy week for me as well, so I focused my attention on the inevitable and the ugly. But there was more happening in the league, and it’s time to catch up with it in [...]
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Quote of the Day: Tim Wiese doesn’t give a Shit
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“Some referees probably give a red card for this, but I don’t give a shit about it now. We won the game.”
Tim Wiese in his post match interview after a heated northern derby between Hamburg and Bremen ended 1-0 for the visitors. The “some referees would give a red card” bit refers [...]
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Snapshot: Two-in-One
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I have the rare honour to spell the names Valeri Domovchiyski and Lukas Sinkiewicz in the same sentence. Valeri plays for Hertha and Lukas plays for Leverkusen. The two played against each other on Wednesday. Hertha ended up putting more misery on Leverkusen and more [...]
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Matt Damon stars in The Ballack Identity
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I realised that I still had to reveal the identity of the kid on this picture. And it was indeed Matt Damon. I might be the last to notice it, but until I scanned YouTube for a video I could use to wrap a post around it, I wasn’t aware of this striking resemblance.
The [...]
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Weekly Dose 08.05.08
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Bayern Munich is the 5th most valuable football club in the world, followed by Schalke 04 in 10th, Dortmund in 15th, Hamburg in 17th and Bremen in 18th position. Don’t take Forbes’ data about the clubs too literally though. They will try and tell you that Schalke is owned by the Veltins brewery. (Forbes) Mad Jens [...]
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Snapshot: Say it with Flowers / Say it with Showers
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Kudos to Wolfsburg for the idea. Presenting a bouquet of flowers to beer showered footballers makes a great picture.
Not to take anything away from the aforementioned beer showers…
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And now… the traditional winning of the title.
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Bayern Munich have secured the Bundesliga title. A 0-0 draw against Wolfsburg was enough. Congratulations. Head over to the Bayern Munich Offside to celebrate a wild blog party. Or you can discuss the new signings Bayern’s competitors need to make to be champions, over at the Hamburg, Stuttgart, Bremen (needs a blogger) or Schalke Offside. Or hang [...]
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Name this Player #3
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Who’s that kid?
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Team News
A competition of stupidity
For someone who is not a fan of any of the teams involved it must be quite a funny picture: Hamburg, Leverkusen and Stuttgart really, really want to play in the UEFA-Cup, but keep stumbling over their own feet, while Wolfsburg, who nobody had expected to do this well, are slowly sneaking their way to the international spots.
On a second thought, it reminds a little of the title race last season.
Eins, Zwei, Drei, Neun
Apologies for lack of posting in a week where actual things were going on, but I've been having a birthday and therefore without time to write up posts.
But in my absence, Hertha's done surprisingly well for themselves. Three wins in a row as of today, and as I type we're in ninth. One of those wins was even away. As Jan pointed out the other day, in the table just for the second half of the season we're in sixth. There's one game left to go and instead of collapsing, we've done better. We could still go down horribly to the champions next week, but that hardly counts.
Wolfsburg and the new kits
The importance of today's match is obvious: Wolfsburg has been one of the most positively surprising teams of the second half of the season and Stuttgart can't expect to beat them unless they're fully focused. And with the same number of points as Hamburg and Leverkusen being only one victory away, these three points are absolutely necessary.
Considering the line-up, Serdar Tasci has torn a muscle fiber in the last match, but since Meira is fit again there shouldn't be any problems. Both Veh and Heldt didn't want to comment on the situation of Raphael Schäfer. He's been heavily criticised by the fans once again, which of course isn't helping the least.
Here's the line-up from the VfB's web-site:
Schäfer
Osorio-Meira-Delpierre-Magnin
Hilbert-Pardo-Bastürk-Hitzlsperger
Gomez-Cacau
Nothing new there, da Silva is back on the bench, as well as Beck. Let's hope this team, which would have been the standard line up for the whole season if it hadn't been for all the injuries will stand up to the pressure of having to win in order to save the UEFA-Cup spot.
On a different note, since today the kits for the 08/09 season are available. Here's a look:
Welcome to the Mercedes-Benz-Arena
Today the district council of Stuttgart agreed on the modification plans for the Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion to a “multifunctional football stadium.” With the last hurdle on the way to the Mercedes-Benz-Arena cleared, it’s time to take a look at the plans.
When finished, the whole thing is probably going to look like this:
He's a sly one... that Oliver Kahn.
First he hates him. Criticizes him publicly and gets a suspension for it. Then he's singing his praises. Now he's calling for him to replace himself as Captain once he retires. Who in the world is Oliver Kahn talking about? You may have guessed it ...
May 08, 2008 | Read this article...
Argh!
I had a whole post written out on the match today and something happened when I went to post and I lost over half my entry. I'll try again tomorrow!
May 07, 2008 | Read this article...
Lell gets extension, Sagnol gets...?
Christian Lell's contract was set to run out with Bayern Munich in 2009. Lell, however, has signed a contract a two year extension with the Bavarian Giants, keeping him in Munich until 2011 currently. Out of fifty-four possible appearances, Lell has played in forty-four games. At just ...
May 06, 2008 | Read this article...
Bring on Bremen, Redux
Chalk one up for the success of avoiding predictions. Hamburg have the Northern Derby mid-week against arch rival Werder Bremen at the Bank (See how I've taken to calling the ground by some sort of nickname based on the ground's naming sponsor? It's quite the thing to do in American ...
May 06, 2008 | Read this article...
It is done
We have our new manager. And he is Martin Jol, formerly with Spurs.
May 06, 2008 | Read this article...
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