

Eintracht Frankfurt
Matchday 12: Captain Future
By: Jan |The clubs at the top of the table keep crawling along. The clubs at the bottom keep sinking. Referees had a forgettable weekend and in between a player and a coach dropped bombshells.
Philipp Lahm. Bayern’s disappointing draw at home against Schalke. Robben’s moment of madness for which he should have seen a red card. Luca [...]
Photo: Sunset
By: Jan |Frankfurt’s Marco Russ and Maik Franz celebrate after the match against Bochum (2-1).
(Vladimir Rys/Bongarts/Getty Images)
Bundesliga 2009/2010: What is New? What is the Same?
By: Jan |Sorry for letting this blog rot away in the late August sun for so many weeks. Other work took over and left some time but not much energy to spend on other things. But the team blogs have been bursting with energy all the more at the same time and a few more came back [...]
Successful, Athletic, Wealthy Lone Wolf Seeks Educated, Intelligent, Fun Loving Blogger for Long Term Relationship
By: Jan |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 [...]
Bundesliga Season Finale Liveblog
By: Jan |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 [...]
The Bundesliga Money League
By: Jan |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 [...]
Running Commentary: Bundesliga Matchday 23
By: Jan |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.
Weekly Dose 05.03.09
By: Jan |Last week’s look at the family affairs behind adidas and Puma was just to warm you up. This week we learn how the two brothers briefly build a three stripes Nazi bazooka, ironically almost got blown to pieces by an Allied tank and then supplied the US army with basketball and baseball shoes. (Spiegel Online)
Ultras [...]
Running Commentary: Bundesliga Matchday 22
By: Jan |A running commentary of the weekend’s Bundesliga action. Feel free to share your thoughts via the comments. This weekend all times will be Peru Time (PET, CET -6h), in honor of Werder Bremen’s man of the match against Milan: Claudio Pizzarro.
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Saturday
[07.35] This edition is a bit late. I was out on Friday and could only [...]
Running Commentary: Bundesliga Matchday 21
By: Jan |A running commentary of the weekend’s Bundesliga action. Feel free to share your thoughts via the comments.
I modified the format a bit and introduced timestamps. Due to the time-zone spanning super-global nature of this blog, I decided to feature a different timezone each week. In honor of one of our most frequent commenters, I’ll [...]






