Borussia Dortmund

September 28th, 2009

Bundesliga Matchday 7: Ze Roberto to F4. Checkmate.

By: Jan | Comments 2 Comments

Hamburg remain in control of the top, Hertha remain in control of the bottom and with his wins over Bochum, Dortmund and the Schalke fans Felix Magath is now in total control of the Ruhr Valley.
Battle Chess. When a commenter on one of Germany’s public broadcasters attempted to summarize and categorize the match between Hamburg [...]



August 6th, 2009

The Bundesliga Offside Bundesliga Season Preview

By: Jan | Comments 10 Comments

It’s time to preview the eight most important teams of the upcoming Bundesliga season.
Bayern
Pre-Season: Bayern’s pre-season started like all pre-seasons during odd numbered years by putting between 50 to 100 million Euros into circulation, to make up for not signing anyone during the even numbered years. This time they also played a mean practical joke [...]

June 16th, 2009

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

By: Jan | Comments 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 [...]

May 23rd, 2009

Bundesliga Season Finale Liveblog

By: Jan | Comments No Comments

What good is a liveblog in a tape-delayed world? I have no idea. I’ll leave this philosophical question unanswered and let our American readers deal with it.
For everyone else it’s season 46 episode 34 of the Bundesliga. We’ve already been served 2970 minutes high on excitement and low on answers – the latter will [...]

May 18th, 2009

Wolfsburg Close in on Title. Hamburg Close in on Supermassive Black Hole.

By: Jan | Comments 6 Comments

Uli Hoeness predicted that this championship won’t be decided on goal difference, but rather that someone would slip up, and he was right albeit in the wrong places.
Hannover 0-5 Wolfsburg. Except for the sell out crowd there was nothing really derby-ish about this game (and then, the last match at home usually tends to be [...]



May 15th, 2009

Weekly Dose 15.05.09

By: Jan | Comments No Comments

There’s a St. Pauli Offside now! There must be a better way to integrate it into the Bundesliga Offside than hoping for an extra quick promotion to the first division. (St. Pauli Offside)
A close Bundesliga title race decided on the final matchday? Happens 50% of the time, so what’s all the buzz about? (ESPN Soccernet)
The [...]

May 12th, 2009

Guide to the Bundesliga’s Season Finale

By: Jan | Comments 7 Comments

Three matchdays to go and there is still pretty much everything to play for at the top and the bottom of the table. A welcome change to last season, where we had to make do with a little tussle for the UEFA Cup and Intertoto spots and Nuremberg putting up not much of a fight [...]

April 4th, 2009

Solo Goals Galore: Raffael and Grafite and Krzynowek

By: Jan | Comments 8 Comments

It was an uncharacteristic match for Hertha Berlin against Borussia Dortmund (1-3). Their defense and goalkeeper weren’t infallible and their offense wasted dozens of chances – statistically and usually Berlin only need three chances per goal this season. So this great little solo run by Raffael to level the score (for only a couple of [...]

March 13th, 2009

The Bundesliga Money League

By: Jan | Comments 4 Comments

I never heard of Goldman Morgenstern & Partners Financial Intelligence Service before, but they published a press release which lists the turnover of each Bundesliga club for the 2007/2008 season. The data seems to come from an article in the print edition of Kicker magazine. Said article supposedly dealt with the official Bundesliga report for [...]

March 7th, 2009

Running Commentary: Bundesliga Matchday 23

By: Jan | Comments 7 Comments

A running commentary of the weekend’s Bundesliga action. Feel free to share your thoughts via the comments. This weekend all times will be Pacific Standard Time (PST, CET -9h) to help Landon Donovan get used to life in Los Angeles again.






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