Borussia Mönchengladbach
Matchday 11: A Day at the Snail Races
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The top of the league collectively dropped points, allowing Hoffenheim to close the gap but not much more. The bottom of the league collectively dropped points, allowing Hertha to keep dreaming about Bundesliga survival but not much more.
Rookie Coach of the Year. Also known as the Markus Babbel Trophy. Mainz 05’s coach Thomas Tuchel had [...]
Category: Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Mönchengladbach, FC Bayern Munich, FSV Mainz 05, Hamburger SV, Hertha BSC Berlin, Matchdays, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, Werder Bremen
Tags: Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Bruno Labbadia, FC Bayern Munich, FSV Mainz 05, Hamburger SV, Heiko Herrlich, Hertha BSC Berlin, Jerome Boateng, Matchdays, Thomas Tuchel, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, Werder BremenGoals Galore: 6 + 9 Vintage Borussia Mönchengladbach Goals
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Vintage, in this context, means 1970s and brilliant. Borussia Mönchengladbach were the league’s most dominant club during that decade and won a then record five Bundesliga titles. Moreover they were also the ambassadors of style, with inspirational midfield and attacking talent in players like Jupp Heynckes, Günter Netzer (Ballon d’Or runner up 1972) or Allan [...]
Bundesliga Matchday 7: Ze Roberto to F4. Checkmate.
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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 [...]
The Evolution of Günter Netzer’s Hair
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There are many legendary football players. There are many legendary hair styles. But only a select few managed to combine the two. Germany and Borussia Mönchengladbach playmaker Günter Netzer is one who had the hair of legends.
This post sets out to tell its’ story.
Season 1965/1966 to 1966/1967
Here’s the template from which to start. Notice the [...]
Successful, Athletic, Wealthy Lone Wolf Seeks Educated, Intelligent, Fun Loving Blogger for Long Term Relationship
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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 BremenBundesliga Season Finale Liveblog
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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 [...]
Category: 1. Bundesliga, 1. FC Cologne, 1899 Hoffenheim, Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Eintracht Frankfurt, Energie Cottbus, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Hannover 96, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, Matchdays, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen Tags: 1. Bundesliga, 1. FC Cologne, 1899 Hoffenheim, Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Eintracht Frankfurt, Energie Cottbus, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Hannover 96, Hertha BSC Berlin, Karlsruher SC, Liveblogs, Matchdays, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder BremenWolfsburg Close in on Title. Hamburg Close in on Supermassive Black Hole.
By: Jan | 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 [...]
Category: 1. FC Cologne, 1899 Hoffenheim, Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Energie Cottbus, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Hannover 96, Hertha BSC Berlin, Matchdays, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Wolfsburg Tags: 1. FC Cologne, 1899 Hoffenheim, Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Edin Dzeko, Energie Cottbus, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Franck Ribery, Grafite, Hamburger SV, Hannover 96, Hertha BSC Berlin, Luca Toni, Lucien Favre, Mario Gomez, Marko Pantelic, Matchdays, VfB Stuttgart, VfL WolfsburgBorussia Mönchengladbach’s Great Last Minute Escape
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When it all comes down to it, it doesn’t matter how they did it.
There wasn’t all that much football on display in Borussia Mönchengladbach’s last two matches against Schalke and Cottbus, which of course wasn’t Gladbach’s fault alone. Schalke can control a game and dominate possession, but they can’t really score goals or come up [...]
Guide to the Bundesliga’s Season Finale
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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 [...]
Job Security in Europe’s Top Leagues
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Getting the sack as a football coach isn’t really the worst thing that could happen to you and to Jürgen Klinsmann. Except for the banking sector there probably isn’t a job on this planet where screwing up pays you so much in golden handshakes. Looking at it this way, this season’s best places in Europe [...]
Category: Borussia Mönchengladbach, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Facts and Figures, VfB Stuttgart Tags: Armin Veh, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Facts and Figures, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Fred Rutten, Jürgen Klinsmann, Jos Luhukay, VfB Stuttgart
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