

VfL Wolfsburg
10 Things we learned from Matchday 31 and 32
By: Jan |It was a busy week of Bundesliga football. And it was a busy week for me as well, so I focused my attention on the inevitable and the ugly. But there was more happening in the league, and it’s time to catch up with it in this double header edition.
1. Bremen and Schalke win Champions […]
10 Things we learned from Matchday 30
By: Jan |1. Only math stands in Bayern’s way now.
Bayern beat Stuttgart 4-1 on Sunday. Angela blogged about how it happened and then Anna blogged about why it happened. Now I blog about how Bayern top the table with a 12 point lead. 20 goals stand between them and Werder Bremen. 24 goals stand between them and […]
Masters of Space and Time
By: Jan |When I was a kid, Dr. Emmett Brown taught me, that certain interventions into the past or future could create a time paradox and cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space-time continuum and destroy the entire universe. That’s the worst case scenario.
Sunday’s match between Nuremberg and Wolfsburg was a […]
Weekly Dose 18.04.08
By: Jan |Luca Toni embodies Bayern Munich’s renaissance more than any other player (scroll down and click on the numbers or on weiter to navigate through the slideshow); via probek.net. (Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin)
Luca Toni embodies Bayern Munich’s renaissance more than any other player II (scroll down and click on the numbers or on weiter to navigate through […]
10 Things we learned from Matchday 28
By: Jan |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 […]
10 Things we learned from Matchday 26
By: Jan |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 […]
5 Things the Bundesliga Offside Bloggers learned from Matchday 25
By: Jan |I spent my weekend telling lies to my relatives, which depending on their age were about bunnies and candy, and depending on their favourite team, were about how Hamburg or Bremen still have a chance of winning the title. It was an entertaining diversion from the world of hard facts and truth here at the […]
Weekly Dose 27.3.08
By: Jan |Good news for GolTV subscribers. (Yahoo! Biz)
Bad news for people watching their football on German TV (i.e., please pity me). (Goal.com)
A spectacular overhead goal by Jürgen Klinsmann. (Who Ate All The Pies)
A spectacular rise and fall. (Deutsche Welle)
Fun with names: Grafite spells trouble for Schalke. (AFP)
Fun with names: Writing on wall for Schaaf’s Bremen as […]
Quote of the Day: If I can make it here…
By: Jan |“If I can make it in the Bundesliga, I can take on the world.” - Makoto Hasebe (VfL Wolfsburg).
Funny how I said the exact same thing to myself, when I started blogging the Bundesliga for The Offside.
10 Things we learned from Matchday 24
By: Jan |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’ […]






