Name the Player #7

By: Jan | 4 Comments

Which player is seen here reflecting large amounts of light straight back to the sun?

Category: Misc

Tags: Misc, Weekly Quiz

One of These Players is not Like the Others

By: Jan | 2 Comments

One of these players just doesn’t belong. Can you tell which player is not like the others?
From left to right: former Dortmund striker Márcio Amoroso, Wolfsburg striker Grafite, Bayern striker Luca Toni and Nuremberg striker/midfielder Marek Mintal.

Category: Misc

Tags: Misc, Weekly Quiz

Name the Player #6

By: Jan | 2 Comments

A fairly easy one to solve I think.

Category: Misc, Photos

Tags: Misc, Photos, Weekly Quiz

One of These Players is not Like the Others

By: Jan | 6 Comments

One of these players just doesn’t belong. Can you tell which player is not like the others?

Category: Misc

Tags: Misc, Weekly Quiz

Name the Brazilian

By: Jan | 5 Comments

If you had a German name and researched it, you’d probably end up learning that 800 years ago a poor pig farmer built his hut right beside a hole in the ground and so your family was subsequently named after this hole. A Portuguese or Brazilian name on the other hand is more like a [...]

Category: Misc

Tags: Misc, Name it

My Ongoing HSV Birthday Greetings Collection

By: Jan | 5 Comments

Over two years ago I got curious about Internet based club TV services, which more and more Bundesliga clubs were launching at the time. With Cologne being a prominent absentee, I decided to make my pick of test subscriptions based on presumed benchmark (Bayern), sympathies (Hamburg) and Champions League football (Stuttgart). Predictably Bayern had indeed [...]

Category: Hamburger SV, Misc, Photos

Tags: Hamburger SV, Joris Mathijsen, Marcell Jansen, Misc, Photos, Romeo Castelen

Successful, Athletic, Wealthy Lone Wolf Seeks Educated, Intelligent, Fun Loving Blogger for Long Term Relationship

By: Jan | 2 Comments

In other words: our Wolfsburg Offside is looking for someone to take over and join our lively Bundesliga family here at The Offside.
Please send your fake takeover applications to admin@nufc.co.uk and the real ones to daryl[at]theoffside[dot]com.
Update: Just as I write this post the Borussia Dortmund Offside goes up for auction as well. If you are [...]

Category: 1899 Hoffenheim, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Eintracht Frankfurt, FC Schalke 04, Hannover 96, Misc, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen

Tags: 1899 Hoffenheim, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Eintracht Frankfurt, FC Schalke 04, Hannover 96, Misc, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen

A Get-Rich-Quick Scheme for Football Fans

By: Jan | 7 Comments

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.
 

Category: Europa League, Hamburger SV, Misc, Werder Bremen

Tags: Europa League, Hamburger SV, Misc, Werder Bremen

Name the Ringtone

By: Jan | 4 Comments

 
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…

Category: Europa League, Misc, Werder Bremen

Tags: Europa League, Klaus Allofs, Misc, Name it, Werder Bremen

Bookmark: Bundesliga Talk

By: Jan | 4 Comments

English-language websites covering the Bundesliga are a rare sight. At least if you discount the ones that just feed news wire stories into their system. So it’s always great to stumble upon an ambitious new site – or blog to be more precise. Bundesliga Talk is an EPL Talk sister site written by Mark Moll, [...]

Category: Misc

Tags: Bundesliga Talk, Misc