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The new Deloitte Money League is out and the Bun­desliga is stronger than ever.

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There is a new book to add to the pan­theon of Ger­man foot­ball books. Jon Gould­ing (pro­nounced Gold-ing) is a Port Vale sup­porter liv­ing in Cheshire Eng­land. He was intro­duced to Ger­man foot­ball by his father-in-law, and fell in love with 1.FC Nürn­berg. After attend­ing a few games, Jon turned his mates onto the the delights […]

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One of the strengths of Footbo has been the abil­ity of users to grade a game and the per­for­mances within. Recently they made changes to the wid­get that allows for this user inter­ac­tion and it is a def­i­nite improve­ment. I would encour­age you all to check it out. Rather than get­ting a grade from Goal.com, […]

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I’m sick of this crappy lit­tle net­work and hav­ing to deal with their bull­shit. They suck. Plain and sim­ple! They promised us 3 games a week and they are already back­ing off to 2 games a week at best. They promised a con­test that never mate­ri­al­ized. They pick up Europa and won’t even show German […]

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While it comes out in Sep­tem­ber, I was for­tu­nate enough to get an advanced copy of Englis­cher Fuss­ball: A German’s View of our Beau­ti­ful Game. It was handed to me by the man him­self. But there was a prob­lem with his tim­ing. Rafa had handed this book to me right in the mid­dle of book […]

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Derek Rae of ESPN was kind enough to speak to me at length about Ger­many and Ger­man foot­ball. If you have access to ESPN/ESPN Inter­na­tional, you may be accus­tomed to Rae’s com­men­tary for the Cham­pi­ons League, La Liga or even Ere­di­visie; there­fore, you might find that an inter­view of a foot­ball announcer who doesn’t announce […]

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Fol­low­ing a busy sea­son, Raphael Honig­stein of The Guardian and Footbo was kind enough to talk with me and address a few ques­tions I had about the end of the sea­son and the start to the silly sea­son. Which player(s) sur­prised you the most this sea­son?  a) Mis­i­movic. We knew he could play foot­ball, but […]

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