For Fun

Believe it or not, we are just a week away from the start of another glo­ri­ous Bun­desliga sea­son. Hav­ing taken the sum­mer off from wor­ry­ing about foot­ball (and cram­ming in seven Harry Pot­ter books into those months), it is time to dive head-deep into my favorite pas­sion. The dif­fi­cult thing about this year is that […]

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One of the Bundesliga’s fun­ner 4–4–2’s. GOALKEEPER Rene Adler Near Elder (if word about his back is true) DEFENDERS Paul Stal­teri Ultra Pilates (per­haps, but what about Ultra defend­ing?) Michael Grav­gaard Alarm! Vice! Hag­gard! (Jol! Agrees! Some!) Daniel Van Buyten Banal, Even, Untidy (it’s almost kind, even) Dino Drpic Drip In Cod (and on the field at […]

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I am going through the process of learn­ing Ger­man and while find­ing the toi­let is always nice, it really doesn’t help when it comes to the rea­son I want to learn the lan­guage: Fußball. So here are seven ran­dom words for you who don’t know Ger­man to learn. You will come across them on occasion. […]

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Who’s your douche-daddy? That’s right Albert! Angered that noto­ri­ous douche-weasel, Jens Lehmann had grabbed all the head­lines this week with his shoe throw­ing inci­dent against Salid Sal­i­hovic, Albert Streit decided to take mat­ters in his own hands by get­ting into a punch up with the non-ghetto Boateng brother, him­self a bit of a douche-waffle. His […]

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While many expect Bay­ern to cruise through the sec­ond half of the sea­son, their loss at Ham­burg means it’s not a fore­gone con­clus­sion. Who do you think will win the title and feel free to post why you think. Who Will Win the League ( polls)

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What if Euse­bio hadn’t dis­man­tled Nurem­burg in the Euro­pean Cup in 1962? Or Yugoslavia hadn’t erased the mir­a­cle of Berne by send­ing West Ger­many home early at the 1962 World Cup? No we prob­a­bly wouldn’t still have the Oberliga sys­tem! But if we did, this is what it would look like cur­rently. I have done […]

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