

Europa League
Champions/Europa League Matchday 4: Hertha FCB
By: Jan |3 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat for Bundesliga clubs in Europe this week. The good news is that five out of six have it all in their own hands to progress to the next round. The odd club out is of course Hertha B… no wait.
Bayern Munich 0-2 Bordeaux. Bayern wanted a football teacher [...]
Champions/Europa League Matchday 3: It Takes Two
By: Jan |2 Blackouts. Stuttgart continued to show signs of life in their game against Sevilla and they continued to produce stupid defensive lapses, which continually cost them the games. Two such mistakes, coupled with the referee missing an offside position helped Sevilla to a comfortable 3-1 victory.
2 Own Goals. When Bordeaux’s Ciani picked up where Freiburg’s [...]
Champions/Europa League Matchday 1 Wrap-Up
By: Jan |Three wins, two draws and one defeat makes for a balanced but not too glorious start to this year’s European season.
Wolfsburg. You are never too old for an impressive Champions League debut. Grafite (30) scored a hat-trick and became only (or already?) the sixth player to do so on his debut. Each of his goals [...]
The Money Game: Champions League vs Europa League
By: Jan |We’re heading into a new season of European football, which for most people really only means Champions League football. The big question ahead of every Champions League season is of course not who wins it – Stuttgart won’t, Wolfsburg won’t and most probably Bayern won’t either so why bother – but who earns how much. [...]
A Get-Rich-Quick Scheme for Football Fans
By: Jan |1. Get a piece of paper.
It doesn’t have to be white. Just make sure it fits the color-scheme of your football club of choice.
2. Use the paper to take part in a pre-match fan choreograpgy.
Name the Ringtone
By: Jan |
Bremen’s sporting director Klaus Allofs needs some cheering up at the moment and would like to put that ringtone on his cell. What’s the name of the song?
Name more…
A Quick and Complicated Guide to Europe
By: Jan |European football competitions used to be a straight forward affair. Two cups for each domestic league title and another one for the best of the rest all played out in a two-legged knockout format. Then came the G-14, breakaway league threats and UEFA’s response with a complicated mix of pre-group stage qualification knockout ties, group [...]
Jens Lehmann doesn’t like Headbands
By: Jan |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 [...]
Quote of the Day: Kevin Kuranyi’s Philosophical Moment
By: Jan |“I feel better than yesterday and worse than tomorrow.”
Kevin Kuranyi’s sole post match statement following his great goal and overall good performance against the PSG reserves.
Google Translate: Paris Saint-Germain to German
By: Jan |I have to give some credit to Google, for not just collecting more and more sensitive data about us, but also making better and better tools. For its’ German language users seeking a French to German translation, Google Translate even tries to find a Bundesliga counterpart of the French club in question. In this case [...]






