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Running Commentary: Bundesliga Matchday 22
By: Jan |
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A running commentary of the weekend’s Bundesliga action. Feel free to share your thoughts via the comments. This weekend all times will be Peru Time (PET, CET -6h), in honor of Werder Bremen’s man of the match against Milan: Claudio Pizzarro.
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Saturday
[07.35] This edition is a bit late. I was out on Friday and could only [...]
Category: 1. Bundesliga, 1. FC Cologne, 1899 Hoffenheim, Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Eintracht Frankfurt, Energie Cottbus, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Hannover 96, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, Matchdays, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen
Tags: 1. Bundesliga, 1. FC Cologne, 1899 Hoffenheim, Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Eintracht Frankfurt, Energie Cottbus, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Hannover 96, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, Matchdays, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder BremenWeekly Dose 25.02.09
By: Jan | 7 Comments
Kaiserslautern’s Martin Amedick has the second funniest name in world football. (The World Game)
Spot it: which Bundesliga team is featured in this old Hip Hop video? (YouTube)
How a Schalke and a Dortmund fan experienced the 133rd Revierderby. (Bundesliga Talk)
The story of adidas as told by an adidas commercial. (YouTube)
The deleted scenes which didn’t make it [...]
Quote of the Day: Museums are overrated anyway
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We should be happy, that he isn’t putting his money into museums and art galleries, but into football among other things.
The German FA’s secretary general Wolfgang Niersbach about Hoffenheim’s sugar daddy Dietmar Hopp. In fact the German FA is so happy and thankful, that they bought a football database application by ICW, a startup company [...]
The Table never lies…
By: Jan | 6 Comments
… and the table clearly wants Hertha to win their first ever Bundesliga title this season. Why would a Bundesliga table otherwise decide to read like the rallying cry of Hertha fans: Ha Ho He, Hertha BSC?
Exactly.
And now excuse me, I’m busy with my new assignment, where I look for patterns in magazines [...]
Running Commentary: Bundesliga Matchday 21
By: Jan | 8 Comments
A running commentary of the weekend’s Bundesliga action. Feel free to share your thoughts via the comments.
I modified the format a bit and introduced timestamps. Due to the time-zone spanning super-global nature of this blog, I decided to feature a different timezone each week. In honor of one of our most frequent commenters, I’ll [...]
Category: 1. Bundesliga, 1. FC Cologne, 1899 Hoffenheim, Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Eintracht Frankfurt, Energie Cottbus, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Hannover 96, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, Matchdays, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen Tags: 1. Bundesliga, 1. FC Cologne, 1899 Hoffenheim, Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Eintracht Frankfurt, Energie Cottbus, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Hannover 96, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, Matchdays, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder BremenPhoto: Hoffenheim’s latest Invention
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Hoffenheim’s coach Ralf Rangnick isn’t nicknamed The Professor for nothing and this is his latest creation: a combined striker/goalkeeper. With his fetish for “polyvalent” players, Hertha’s coach Lucien Favre must be green with envy. Anyone got an idea for a name for this beast?
Jens Lehmann doesn’t like Headbands
By: Jan | 4 Comments
Read on if you can spare 12 seconds for another perfectly trivial and perfectly bloggable Jens Lehmann moment.
Jens Lehmann is currently on his lap of honor through Europe and yesterday he stopped by a large field of frozen mud in St. Petersburg, where he ended up getting emotional about Khalid Boulahrouz’s headband.
101GreatGoals’ theory is [...]
Weekly Dose 18.02.09
By: Jan | 3 Comments
How do you promote anti-right wing extremism, anti-racism, anti anti-semitism, anti-sexism and anti-homophobia with one big stadium friendly choreo? Check out tonight’s Werder – AC Milan match and see for yourself. (Bundesliga Talk)
The former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is a boon for the Bundesliga. (Bundesliga Talk)
Hertha’s rise to the top is no joke. (Guardian [...]
Running Commentary: Bundesliga Matchday 20
By: Jan | 8 Comments
A running commentary of the weekend’s Bundesliga action. Feel free to share your thoughts via the comments.
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Friday
Trivial pre-match stats: Hoffenheim have lost four out of five top of the table clashes. Hoffenheim will play four of those five top of the table clashes at home in the second half of the season. Hoffenheim are the [...]
Category: 1. Bundesliga, 1. FC Cologne, 1899 Hoffenheim, Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Eintracht Frankfurt, Energie Cottbus, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Hannover 96, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, Matchdays, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen Tags: 1. Bundesliga, 1. FC Cologne, 1899 Hoffenheim, Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Eintracht Frankfurt, Energie Cottbus, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Hannover 96, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, Matchdays, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder BremenRunning Commentary: Bundesliga Matchday 19
By: Jan | 3 Comments
Waking this blog from its’ winter sleep was long overdue and what better way to do it, than with a completely experimental feature, which I might immediately scrap again in time for the next matchday.
A while back we had a Bundesliga forum complementing this blog. Theoretically it’s still there actually, but realistically the only people [...]
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