October 15th, 2008

Video: 70s Bundesliga Kits (complete with expressive dance number)

By: Jan |

West Germany in 1974. Bayern were busy winning their European Cup triple. The German national team was busy winning the World Cup. Kraftwerk were busy minimalising their Autobahn record. The Bundesliga Offside blogger Jan was busy weaving the threads of fate to get his parents to date and multiply a bit quicker, fearing he could [...]

Category: 1. Bundesliga, 2. Bundesliga, Eintracht Frankfurt, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, MSV Duisburg, Miscellaneous, VfB Stuttgart, Videos

Tags: 1. Bundesliga, 2. Bundesliga, adidas, Colour Philosophers, Eintracht Frankfurt, FC Schalke 04, Friedrich-Ernst von Garnier, Günther Netzer, Hamburger SV, Miscellaneous, MSV Duisburg, VfB Stuttgart, Videos

May 14th, 2008

10 Things we learned from Matchday 33

By: Jan |

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1. Rostock and Duisburg return to the second division.
They went from newly-promoted to newly-relegated over the course of one season. Duisburg lost against Bayern at home (2-3), despite staging a semi-remarkable comeback after Lukas Podolski had made it 3-0 after just 20 minutes. Rostock lost against Leverkusen (1-2) in a game which kept Leverkusen’s [...]

May 9th, 2008

10 Things we learned from Matchday 31 and 32

By: Jan |

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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 this double header edition.
1. Bremen and Schalke win Champions [...]

Category: 1. Bundesliga, 1. FC Nuremberg, Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Energie Cottbus, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Hansa Rostock, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, MSV Duisburg, Matchdays, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen

April 29th, 2008

10 Things we learned from Matchday 30

By: Jan |

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1. Only math stands in Bayern’s way now.
Bayern beat Stuttgart 4-1 on Sunday. Angela blogged about how it happened and then Anna blogged about why it happened. Now I blog about how Bayern top the table with a 12 point lead. 20 goals stand between them and Werder Bremen. 24 goals stand between them and [...]

Category: 1. Bundesliga, 1. FC Nuremberg, Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Energie Cottbus, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Hansa Rostock, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, MSV Duisburg, Matchdays, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen

Tags: 1. Bundesliga, 1. FC Nuremberg, Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Energie Cottbus, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Hansa Rostock, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, Matchdays, MSV Duisburg, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen

April 15th, 2008

10 Things we learned from Matchday 28

By: Jan |

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1. Nuremberg can no longer finish their matches.
Last week Nuremberg’s match against Frankfurt was stopped for 20 minutes, after some people from Nuremberg’s travelling support burned firecrackers and threw a flare onto the pitch. This Friday Nuremberg’s match against Wolfsburg got abandoned after heavy rain rendered the pitch unplayable. A Bundesliga first. Nuremberg were leading [...]

March 31st, 2008

10 Things we learned from Matchday 26

By: Jan |

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1. Nothing.
The teams at the top of the table couldn’t win their games. The teams at the bottom of the table didn’t lose their games. As such no team gained a lot of ground, nor did any team lose a lot of ground. And when the six best teams in the league don’t do their [...]

Category: 1. Bundesliga, 1. FC Nuremberg, Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Eintracht Frankfurt, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Hannover 96, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, MSV Duisburg, Matchdays, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen

March 3rd, 2008

10 Things we learned from Matchday 22

By: Jan |

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1. A lesson in the fine art of self destruction by Schalke 04.
The merits of having the club’s president publicly lame ducking a coach are generally questionable. Doing so ahead of two of the most crucial fixtures of the season is attention seeking, mistimed and pure idiocy at best. While Schalke’s sporting director Andreas Müller [...]

Category: 1. Bundesliga, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Eintracht Frankfurt, Energie Cottbus, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, MSV Duisburg, Matchdays, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen

March 3rd, 2008

Refereeing Basics: How not to show a Red Card

By: Jan |

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Here’s referee Felix Brych showing Duisburg’s Bojan Vrucina a yellow-red card gangsta-style.
Well, being a referee won’t make you the coolest bloke in the neighbourhood, nor do the players on the pitch respect you, neither do the coaches on the sidelines and TV stations celebrate every mistake you make with seemingly endless slow-motion replays. But trying [...]

Category: 1. Bundesliga, MSV Duisburg, Snapshots

Tags: 1. Bundesliga, MSV Duisburg, Snapshots

February 29th, 2008

Bundesliga Offside Rewind: Human Relations

By: Jan |

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This week our bloggers studied the behaviour of people in groups, in particular but not exclusively groups of eleven.

Abby discussed the problem of leadership. (Hertha Offside)
Abby also presented a practical example of how a few small changes to the GolTV schedule could help improve the working conditions for all Bundesliga bloggers. (Hertha Offside)
Chris discussed the [...]

Category: 1. Bundesliga, Arminia Bielefeld, FC Bayern Munich, Hamburger SV, Hertha BSC Berlin, MSV Duisburg

Tags: 1. Bundesliga, Arminia Bielefeld, FC Bayern Munich, Hamburger SV, Hertha BSC Berlin, MSV Duisburg

February 28th, 2008