

VfB Stuttgart
Champions/Europa League Matchday 4: Hertha FCB
By: Jan |3 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat for Bundesliga clubs in Europe this week. The good news is that five out of six have it all in their own hands to progress to the next round. The odd club out is of course Hertha B… no wait.
Bayern Munich 0-2 Bordeaux. Bayern wanted a football teacher [...]
Matchday 11: A Day at the Snail Races
By: Jan |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 [...]
Weekly Dose 30.10.09
By: Jan |I pulled a Jupp Heynckes this week and thus the following links will have to make do for the moment.
Louis van Gaal is not a god. He’s a jazz singer. (YouTube)
Football’s winning formula revealed: give the ball to the other team and lose all your challenges. (Ballspiel)
Mainz 05 are starting to build a global fanbase. [...]
Champions/Europa League Matchday 3: It Takes Two
By: Jan |2 Blackouts. Stuttgart continued to show signs of life in their game against Sevilla and they continued to produce stupid defensive lapses, which continually cost them the games. Two such mistakes, coupled with the referee missing an offside position helped Sevilla to a comfortable 3-1 victory.
2 Own Goals. When Bordeaux’s Ciani picked up where Freiburg’s [...]
Bundesliga Matchday 9: Babbel Bobble
By: Jan |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 [...]
Weekly Dose 14.10.09
By: Jan |One of these things is not like the others: Football, Louis van Gaal, Empathy. (NRC Handelsblad)
Form is temporary. Fate is permanent? (ESPN Soccernet)
They’ve got beer fests in Stuttgart too and this time it was OK for Jens Lehmann to attend. (Das VfB Stuttgart Blog)
Hannover 96 fight to modify the 50+1 club ownership rule. (Bundesliga Talk)
The [...]
Weekly Dose 23.09.09
By: Jan |Hertha Berlin – where dreams metaphors become reality. (Ballspiel)
Kicking you while you are down: Raphael Honigstein hands out some more Hertha bashing. (Guardian)
Let Uli Hesse-Lichtenberger turn you into a VfL Bochum fan and then make our Bochum Offside your browser’s new start page. (ESPN Soccernet)
A Q&A with Edin Dzeko. (ESPN Soccernet)
VfB Stuttgart and Germany legend [...]
Bundesliga Matchday 6 Wrap-Up
By: Jan |Extra Time. We can end the debate about where the seven minutes of extra time came from in the Manchester derby. They were taken from the Bundesliga’s three Sunday fixtures, where the refs decided to call it a day after pretty much exactly 90 minutes. It’s not really a coincidence but rather an annoying habit. [...]
Jens Lehmann
By: Jan |
In case of any other goalkeeper we might ask the question what the hell he is doing out there. In case of Jens Lehmann we are thankful that he is indeed out there doing things; that he extended his contract for one more year last season.
VfB Stuttgart’s sense of humor ended though when Jens Lehmann’s [...]
Champions/Europa League Matchday 1 Wrap-Up
By: Jan |Three wins, two draws and one defeat makes for a balanced but not too glorious start to this year’s European season.
Wolfsburg. You are never too old for an impressive Champions League debut. Grafite (30) scored a hat-trick and became only (or already?) the sixth player to do so on his debut. Each of his goals [...]






