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

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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 […]

Category: Hamburger SV, Eintracht Frankfurt, Hertha BSC Berlin, VfB Stuttgart, Werder Bremen, FC Bayern Munich, 1. Bundesliga

Tags: 1. Bundesliga, FC Bayern Munich, VfB Stuttgart, Tim Wiese, Martin Jol, Kaka, Werder Bremen, Hertha BSC Berlin, Hamburger SV, Eintracht Frankfurt, Tag Index

The Colour Pink

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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 […]

Category: Miscellaneous, Backstory, Eintracht Frankfurt, 1. Bundesliga

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5 Things we learned from Matchday 29

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1. The truth behind Mirko Slomka’s dismissal.
Mirko Slomka got fired on Sunday. The same Sunday Kevin Kuranyi put on his serious face and told reporters that Schalke had lost a very good coach, who every player loves to work with. Then he put on his sad face. Then he said OK. Then he drove away […]

Category: Eintracht Frankfurt, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Hannover 96, Energie Cottbus, Arminia Bielefeld, Borussia Dortmund, 1. FC Nuremberg, Matchday Coverage, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, VfB Stuttgart, 1. Bundesliga

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10 Things we learned from Matchday 28

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1. Nuremberg can no longer finish their matches.
Last week Nuremberg’s match against Frankfurt was stopped for 20 minutes, after some people from Nuremberg’s travelling support burned firecrackers and threw a flare onto the pitch. This Friday Nuremberg’s match against Wolfsburg got abandoned after heavy rain rendered the pitch unplayable. A Bundesliga first. Nuremberg were leading […]

Category: Energie Cottbus, VfL Wolfsburg, Hannover 96, Eintracht Frankfurt, VfL Bochum, Arminia Bielefeld, Hansa Rostock, MSV Duisburg, Karlsruher SC, Hamburger SV, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, FC Bayern Munich, Werder Bremen, Matchday Coverage, FC Schalke 04, VfB Stuttgart, Borussia Dortmund, Hertha BSC Berlin, 1. FC Nuremberg, 1. Bundesliga

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10 Things we learned from Matchday 26

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1. Nothing.
The teams at the top of the table couldn’t win their games. The teams at the bottom of the table didn’t lose their games. As such no team gained a lot of ground, nor did any team lose a lot of ground. And when the six best teams in the league don’t do their […]

Category: Hannover 96, Eintracht Frankfurt, Hamburger SV, VfL Wolfsburg, VfL Bochum, MSV Duisburg, Karlsruher SC, Arminia Bielefeld, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, FC Bayern Munich, Werder Bremen, Matchday Coverage, FC Schalke 04, VfB Stuttgart, Hertha BSC Berlin, 1. FC Nuremberg, 1. Bundesliga

Tags: Lukas Podolski, David Jarolim, Tim Wiese, 1. Bundesliga, Matchday Coverage, Werder Bremen, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, VfB Stuttgart, 1. FC Nuremberg, Hertha BSC Berlin, Borussia Dortmund, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Hamburger SV, Eintracht Frankfurt, Hannover 96, VfL Wolfsburg, VfL Bochum, Arminia Bielefeld, Karlsruher SC, MSV Duisburg, Tag Index

10 Things we learned from Matchday 24

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1. Luca Toni goes down easily.
Call him a diver or an opportunist. When Bayern were trailing 1-0 at Cottbus, Luca Toni worked the slightest contact to his maximum advantage. He lost control of his body, fell to the ground and was awarded a questionable penalty for his troubles. But it was meant to be Cottbus’ […]

Category: Hamburger SV, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Eintracht Frankfurt, VfL Wolfsburg, Energie Cottbus, Borussia Dortmund, Hertha BSC Berlin, Werder Bremen, Matchday Coverage, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, 1. FC Nuremberg, 1. Bundesliga

Tags: Luca Toni, Maik Franz, Slaven Bilic, , 1. Bundesliga, Matchday Coverage, Werder Bremen, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, 1. FC Nuremberg, Hertha BSC Berlin, Borussia Dortmund, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Hamburger SV, Eintracht Frankfurt, VfL Wolfsburg, Energie Cottbus, Tag Index

10 Things we learned from Matchday 22

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1. A lesson in the fine art of self destruction by Schalke 04.
The merits of having the club’s president publicly lame ducking a coach are generally questionable. Doing so ahead of two of the most crucial fixtures of the season is attention seeking, mistimed and pure idiocy at best. While Schalke’s sporting director Andreas Müller […]

Category: VfL Wolfsburg, Eintracht Frankfurt, Hamburger SV, Energie Cottbus, VfL Bochum, MSV Duisburg, Karlsruher SC, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Werder Bremen, Matchday Coverage, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hertha BSC Berlin, VfB Stuttgart, 1. Bundesliga

Tags: Shinji Ono, Mirko Slomka, Markus Rosenberg, 1. Bundesliga, Werder Bremen, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, VfB Stuttgart, Hertha BSC Berlin, Borussia Dortmund, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Hamburger SV, Eintracht Frankfurt, VfL Wolfsburg, Energie Cottbus, VfL Bochum, Karlsruher SC, MSV Duisburg, Matchday Coverage, Tag Index

Caption This: Joris Mathijsen and Frank Rost

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Here are Joris Mathijsen and Frank Rost exchanging a few words during Hamburg’s match against Frankfurt (4-1). What are they saying?

Category: Snapshots, Eintracht Frankfurt, Hamburger SV, 1. Bundesliga

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10 Things we learned from Matchday 21

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1. Sotirios Kyrgiakos is the Bundesliga’s Marco Matterazzi.
It wasn’t a World Cup final, it has yet to prove to be title deciding, but it at least shares some similarities with the infamous incident. Diego is - statistically approved - the most fouled player in the Bundesliga. A little fact that coincides with him being the […]

Category: VfL Wolfsburg, Eintracht Frankfurt, Hamburger SV, Energie Cottbus, Arminia Bielefeld, MSV Duisburg, Karlsruher SC, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Hertha BSC Berlin, Werder Bremen, Matchday Coverage, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, 1. FC Nuremberg, VfB Stuttgart, 1. Bundesliga

Tags: Diego, Mario Gomez, Mark van Bommel, Maik Franz, Mirko Slomka, Sotirios Kyrgiakos, 1. Bundesliga, Matchday Coverage, Werder Bremen, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, VfB Stuttgart, 1. FC Nuremberg, Hertha BSC Berlin, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Hamburger SV, Eintracht Frankfurt, VfL Wolfsburg, Energie Cottbus, Arminia Bielefeld, Karlsruher SC, MSV Duisburg, Tag Index

Weekly Dose 13.2.08

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Lothar Matthäus starring in a Gatorade commercial. (YouTube)
The Athos, Portos and Aramis of the Bundesliga. Who’ll be D’Artagnan then? (Reuters Soccer Blog)
Once upon a time a couple of people got together in an internet discussion to squash some stereotypes about German football. (BigSoccer.com)
Who needs the Premier League playing a 39th game, if you can get […]

Category: Miscellaneous, International, Backstory, Eintracht Frankfurt, National Team, 1. Bundesliga

Tags: Lothar Matthäus, Martin Fenin, Eredivise, Wunder von Bern, 1. Bundesliga, National Team, Eintracht Frankfurt, Backstory, Miscellaneous, International, Tag Index