Felix Magath

So per­haps this is where we should be. Two giants of Ger­man foot­ball lock­ing horns for the title. Bay­ern Munich have won 5 of the last 9 cham­pi­onships. Mag­ath has won 3 of the last 5, is respon­si­ble for 2 of Bayern’s 5 and even led Stuttgart to 2nd in the past decade. Bay­ern win because […]

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I had a long con­ver­sa­tion with Mani Honig­stein, who is the brains behind the foot­ball social net­work­ing site Footbo. An avid Bay­ern Munich fan, I talked to him about the sum­mer trans­fers and his views on the sea­son ahead for the Bavar­ian giants. Tell us a lit­tle about Footbo, and what you are try­ing to […]

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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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Have goals ever been so impor­tant? With two games remain­ing, points are only mar­gin­ally more impor­tant than goal dif­fer­ence in the hunt for sur­vival, Europe and even the Meis­ter­schaft. Wolfs­burg silenced the crit­ics and showed their pro­fes­sion­al­ism by keep­ing their out­stand­ing home-form (remem­ber the only points dropped at the VW were back in August) by […]

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Wolfs­burg has issued an offi­cial state­ment say­ing that Felix Mag­ath will leave the club on June 30th of this year. Mag­ath is bound for Schalke as has been rumored all week, although we still await con­fir­ma­tion from the Gelsenkirchen side. While many claims have been made by the press about Magath’s salary demands, it wasn’t […]

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1st Schalke What You Know: If baseball’s Chicago Cubs had a baby with the Red Sox prior to 2004, Schalke would be the off­spring. What You Don’t: All things both good and bad must end. What to Expect: Yes, Campe­ones! I say that, buck­ing all trends, and know­ing full well that Schalke could be lead­ing the […]

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The new Bun­desliga sea­son is just days away, so Bun­desliga Talk writ­ers Mark Moll and Dou­ble Pivot decided to inter­view one of the pre­em­i­nent writ­ers and authors on the topic of Ger­man soc­cer, Raphael Honig­stein. Many read­ers may know Honig­stein best from his appear­ances on the Foot­ball Weekly Pod­cast by The Guardian. Here’s the transcript […]

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