FC Schalke 04
Matchday 12: Captain Future
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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 [...]
Category: 1. FC Cologne, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Eintracht Frankfurt, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Hertha BSC Berlin, Matchdays, VfB Stuttgart
Tags: 1. FC Cologne, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Eintracht Frankfurt, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Felix Magath, Hamburger SV, Hertha BSC Berlin, Matchdays, Michael Skibbe, Philipp Lahm, VfB StuttgartWeekly Dose 04.11.09
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An English intern at German footie magazine 11Freunde talks about German and English football. (11Freunde)
Uli Hesse-Lichtenberger writes about footballers who suffer/ed from depression. (ESPN Soccernet)
Bayern have an “on” switch and they have a far more popular “off” switch as well. (Ballspiel on – off)
My personal theory about who may be in charge of that switch. [...]
Quote: Ten Beers
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“It is a fairy tale that I ban everything. I only ban things that are hurting the team. But when someone comes to me and says he needs ten beers to score a goal, then I lecture him about the risks of alcohol consumption and give him ten beers.”
Schalke’s coach Felix Magath in an interview [...]
Category: FC Schalke 04Bundesliga Matchday 9: Babbel Bobble
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Bayern were busy exercising control and dominance. Leverkusen were busy defending. Hamburg were busy passing the ball around. Creativity, inspiration and excitement were busy waiting for a date that would never show up. Not this weekend.
Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars. VfB Stuttgart will host Sevilla in the Champions League on Tuesday and then [...]
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 [...]
Category: 1. FC Cologne, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Hertha BSC Berlin, Matchdays Tags: 1. FC Cologne, Arne Friedrich, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Bruno Labbadia, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Hamburger SV, Hertha BSC Berlin, Louis van Gaal, Lucien Favre, Matchdays, Michael Frontzeck, Zé RobertoBundesliga 2009/2010: What is New? What is the Same?
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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 [...]
Category: 1. Bundesliga, 1. FC Cologne, 1. FC Nuremberg, Eintracht Frankfurt, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, FSV Mainz 05, Hamburger SV, Hertha BSC Berlin, Matchdays, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen Tags: 1. Bundesliga, 1. FC Cologne, 1. FC Nuremberg, Al Pacino, Any Given Sunday, Arjen Babbel, Armin Veh, Arne Friedrich, Bruno Labbadia, Eintracht Frankfurt, FC Bayern Munich, FC Schalke 04, Felix Magath, FSV Mainz 05, Hamburger SV, Hertha BSC Berlin, Jens Lehmann, Josip Simunic, Louis van Gaal, Markus Babbel, Matchdays, Michael Skibbe, Thomas Tuchel, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen, Zé RobertoVideo Review: Lewis Holtby (Schalke 04)
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It took 18 year old Lewis Holtby just one season to catch up on everything you would expect from a promising young talent and then he improved on it.
He was promoted from Alemannia Aachen’s youth straight to the senior side, skipping the reserves, and quickly became a first team starter. The DFB took note and [...]
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 [...]
Bundesliga 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.
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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 Wolfsburg
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