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May 13th, 2008

Time for Frankfurt and Berlin to be on their best Behaviour

By: Jan | Comments 3 Comments

The Bundesliga has won an additional UEFA Cup berth, following a draw including the seven fairest and wisest leagues in Europe. Now it’s up to the DFL to decide which team in the Bundesliga honoured the Fair Play ideal the most and thus earns the honour to compete in Europe despite the fact, that they […]



May 11th, 2008

Bundesliga Offside Rewind: With the Grace and Beauty of Tim Wiese

By: Jan | Comments No Comments

That’s how we did our blogging this week.

Anna had a little present for Bayern Munich. (Stuttgart Offside)
Stuttgart finally get a dedicated football stadium arena. (Stuttgart Offside)
Tim Wiese is walking in Toni Schumacher’s shadow. (Bundesliga Offside)
Scarfs for girls or scarfs for fans? (Bundesliga Offside)
Kaka and Eto’o could be playing for Berlin next season. (Hertha Offside)
It […]

May 9th, 2008

The Colour Pink

By: Jan | Comments 6 Comments

Football in Germany has long been savoured as one of the last male refuges. As such anything pink has so far been exclusively reserved for Tim Wiese and his skin tight goalkeeper jerseys. But the times are changing and through the years more and more girls started to wrap their minds around the passive offside […]

May 9th, 2008

10 Things we learned from Matchday 31 and 32

By: Jan | Comments 3 Comments

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 […]

May 8th, 2008

Quote of the Day: Tim Wiese doesn’t give a Shit

By: Jan | Comments 3 Comments

 
“Some referees probably give a red card for this, but I don’t give a shit about it now. We won the game.”
 
Tim Wiese in his post match interview after a heated northern derby between Hamburg and Bremen ended 1-0 for the visitors. The “some referees would give a red card” bit refers to this kung-fu […]



May 8th, 2008

Snapshot: Two-in-One

By: Jan | Comments 2 Comments

I have the rare honour to spell the names Valeri Domovchiyski and Lukas Sinkiewicz in the same sentence. Valeri plays for Hertha and Lukas plays for Leverkusen. The two played against each other on Wednesday. Hertha ended up putting more misery on Leverkusen and more pressure on Michael Skibbe, as they won the match 2-1.

May 8th, 2008

Weekly Dose 08.05.08

By: Jan | Comments 1 Comment

Bayern Munich is the 5th most valuable football club in the world, followed by Schalke 04 in 10th, Dortmund in 15th, Hamburg in 17th and Bremen in 18th position. Don’t take Forbes’ data about the clubs too literally though. They will try and tell you that Schalke is owned by the Veltins brewery. (Forbes)
Mad Jens […]

May 5th, 2008

Snapshot: Say it with Flowers / Say it with Showers

By: Jan | Comments 3 Comments

Kudos to Wolfsburg for the idea. Presenting a bouquet of flowers to beer showered footballers makes a great picture.
Not to take anything away from the aforementioned beer showers…

May 5th, 2008

And now… the traditional winning of the title.

By: Jan | Comments 2 Comments

Bayern Munich have secured the Bundesliga title. A 0-0 draw against Wolfsburg was enough.
Congratulations. Head over to the Bayern Munich Offside to celebrate a wild blog party. Or you can discuss the new signings Bayern’s competitors need to make to be champions, over at the Hamburg, Stuttgart, Bremen (needs a blogger) or Schalke Offside.
Or hang […]

May 3rd, 2008

Bundesliga Offside Rewind: We See and Hear Everything

By: Jan | Comments 3 Comments

And then we blog about it.

Borussia Dortmund’s new jersey. (Borussia Dortmund)
Borussia Dortmund’s new money. (Borussia Dortmund)
Miroslav Klose’s new nose. (Bayern Offside)
Hertha’s old friends. (Hertha Offside)
Willy Sagnol’s new dance. (Bundesliga Offside)
Hamburg’s new potential new coach, who will then sign for another club surely. (Hamburg Offside)
No Euros, no swan song for Bernd Schneider. Sob sob. (Euro 2008 […]






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