July 17th, 2009

Reality Check: No You Couldn’t

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There are some clubs in the Bundesliga where even Obama fails.

Energie Cottbus grabbed a lifeline by securing the relegation play-off spot, but ended up having not even close to a chance in their tie against FC Nuremberg, who beat them 5-0 on aggregate to end all eastern German presence in the Bundesliga.

Category: Energie Cottbus, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, Photos

Tags: Energie Cottbus, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, Photos

May 23rd, 2009

Bundesliga Season Finale Liveblog

By: Jan |

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What good is a liveblog in a tape-delayed world? I have no idea. I’ll leave this philosophical question unanswered and let our American readers deal with it.
For everyone else it’s season 46 episode 34 of the Bundesliga. We’ve already been served 2970 minutes high on excitement and low on answers – the latter will [...]

May 18th, 2009

Wolfsburg Close in on Title. Hamburg Close in on Supermassive Black Hole.

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Uli Hoeness predicted that this championship won’t be decided on goal difference, but rather that someone would slip up, and he was right albeit in the wrong places.
Hannover 0-5 Wolfsburg. Except for the sell out crowd there was nothing really derby-ish about this game (and then, the last match at home usually tends to be [...]

Category: 1. FC Cologne, 1899 Hoffenheim, Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Energie Cottbus, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Hannover 96, Hertha BSC Berlin, Matchdays, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Wolfsburg

May 14th, 2009

Borussia Mönchengladbach’s Great Last Minute Escape

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When it all comes down to it, it doesn’t matter how they did it.
There wasn’t all that much football on display in Borussia Mönchengladbach’s last two matches against Schalke and Cottbus, which of course wasn’t Gladbach’s fault alone. Schalke can control a game and dominate possession, but they can’t really score goals or come up [...]

Category: Borussia Mönchengladbach, Energie Cottbus, FC Schalke 04, Matchdays, Videos

Tags: Borussia Mönchengladbach, Dante, Energie Cottbus, FC Schalke 04, Matchdays, Roberto Colautti, Videos

May 12th, 2009

Guide to the Bundesliga’s Season Finale

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Three matchdays to go and there is still pretty much everything to play for at the top and the bottom of the table. A welcome change to last season, where we had to make do with a little tussle for the UEFA Cup and Intertoto spots and Nuremberg putting up not much of a fight [...]

Category: Arminia Bielefeld, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Energie Cottbus, FC Bayern Munich, Facts and Figures, Hamburger SV, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg

Tags: 1. Bundesliga, Arminia Bielefeld, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Energie Cottbus, Facts and Figures, FC Bayern Munich, Hamburger SV, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg

March 13th, 2009

The Bundesliga Money League

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I never heard of Goldman Morgenstern & Partners Financial Intelligence Service before, but they published a press release which lists the turnover of each Bundesliga club for the 2007/2008 season. The data seems to come from an article in the print edition of Kicker magazine. Said article supposedly dealt with the official Bundesliga report for [...]

March 7th, 2009

Running Commentary: Bundesliga Matchday 23

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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 Pacific Standard Time (PST, CET -9h) to help Landon Donovan get used to life in Los Angeles again.

February 28th, 2009

Running Commentary: Bundesliga Matchday 22

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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 [...]

February 20th, 2009

Running Commentary: Bundesliga Matchday 21

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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 [...]

February 13th, 2009

Running Commentary: Bundesliga Matchday 20

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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 [...]