Gladbach coach Lucien Favre is visibly delighted with his team’s performance against Bayern Munich.

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Poor Michael Rensing. Alone, abandoned, faced with an onslaught of yellow players, bravely keeping the scoreline down to five. The only Cologne player who cared to show up on Saturday. Scenes from a goalkeeper’s worst nightmare, or wet dream, depending on where you rate him on the Mad German Goalkeeper™ scale of one to ten. I think Michael Rensing is certainly more on the sane end of the spectrum.

A group of Cologne fans hijacked the Podbielskiallee in Berlin-Dahlem to honor their icon.

Not that Lukas Podolski’s performance against Hertha as such warranted naming a street after him, but it was part of a bigger picture. One that could ultimately lead us to world peace. The group calls itself “Lilian Laslandes” and left a written claim of responsibility at the scene (The McKenna Schreiben*), in which they outlined their philosophy and demands:

„The pacifistic commando “Lilian Laslandes” hearby admits to renaming the Podbielskiallee in Berlin-Dahlem as part of the Cologne late summer. As open-minded, self- and fun-loving supporters of 1. FC Cologne we demand the resurrection of Sexy Cora, the proclamation of the Republic of Colonia, the imprisonment of Marko Marin as well as general world peace.”

If their demands aren’t met, they’ll continue renaming everything Podolski until the world turns into something like this.

* German for claim of responsibility is Bekennerschreiben. Kevin McKenna is a Cologne defender. McKenna Schreiben…

via Express

Depending on your allegiances and grievances:

• Bayern’s Away Support.
• A Gazprom delegation.
• Felix Magath and his staff paying their former employees a visit.

Spotted by Ian Holyman ahead of the game between Schalke and Bayern.

Dieter Hecking had. Nuremberg won, played well and found their rhythm despite losing all their best players in the summer. Cologne lost, played badly and still haven’t found their rhythm despite keeping all their best players. Lots of work yet for Stale Solbakken.

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Left hand on blue. One foot in the second division. At least as long as Hamburg coach Michael Oenning can’t fix his team’s grave defensive problems / hasn’t been fired yet.

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During Bayern’s 5-0 demolition of Hamburg, Arjen Robben made one of his trademark runs on the right and his sudden cut in-field created parabolic flight like microgravity conditions in his path, causing Ivica Olic and Jeffrey Bruma to experience a brief sensation of weightlessness.

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Shocking scenes of chaos and destruction in Cologne’s sixteen yard box were televised around the globe on Saturday. Schalke striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar got away from all the looting and plundering with a hat-trick and the jersey of a hapless opposing player. Impressive comeback.

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It took 810 days and cost €60m to renovate the Mercedes Benz Arena, and Stuttgart made sure that investing all the time and money was absolutely worth it. Most notably, the running track is gone, of course, and the capacity has been bumped to 60441. But some thought has also been put into the rest of the match day experience, resulting in the men’s toilets behind the curve offering a view onto the field. Never miss a second of the action and pray that things don’t get messi when a goal is scored.

Dortmund’s players celebrate after their match against Hamburg in front of 25000 fans on the south terrace – aptly called the yellow wall. This would be my favorite thing about Dortmund, if it weren’t for Mario Götze and Co. playing such beautiful football at the moment. But it’s a close second.

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