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… There is some serious voodoo going on in Bielefeld. And I mean the serious, hardcore kind. There has to be. Bayer went down 2 – 1 to die Blauen in yesterday’s match, thereby extending the hold Arminia Bielefeld has over the Werkself. I couldn’t find a working stream, so I [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Bielefeld = a place for sorcery
Posted in Bundesliga, Jugend, tagged Jugend, Sascha Dum on 23 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
14. Spieltag preview
Posted in Bundesliga, Internationals, tagged Bruno Labbadia, Gonzalo Castro, Hans Sarpei, Internationals, Patrick Helmes, René Adler, Simon Rolfes, Stefan Reinartz on 21 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So. The last international of the year went well for Helmes, not well at all for Adler, ok for Rolfes (he did get the full 90 minutes) and poorly for Germany as a whole. That also means that Helmes managed to keep his promise to score a goal as a tribute to his dead dog. [...]
Swagger like us
Posted in Bundesliga, Rumours, tagged Patrick Helmes, Rumours, Stefan Keißling on 18 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Bummer. I was away in DC doing the geeky thing and marathoning the Smithsonian Museums so I could not watch the match. And I came home late from school and missed the repeat so you’re left with me doing the boring thing and linking to match reports about the Werkself’s 2 [...]
Happy birthday Schnix!
Posted in Bundesliga, tagged Bernd Schneider on 17 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Today is 17th November and it is Schneider’s birthday. Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag! The midfield maestro deserves a post all on his own for this. Work hard on your rehab Schneider, we’re looking forward to seeing you back. Don’t worry, the boss will find a way to squeeze you into the [...]
Posted in Internationals, tagged Patrick Helmes, René Adler, Simon Rolfes, Stefan Keißling on 13 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Apropos of nothing, I am very tickled at the fact that this blog apparently appears in searches for “unfamous sports games”. How fitting is that? That is Bayer’s lot in life in the English-speaking football world after all. Nothing screams un-hip and unfashionable like a club with ties to a pharma company. [...]
Nothing to see here
Posted in Bundesliga, tagged Pirmin Schwegler on 12 November 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ll start with the bad news. Pirmin Schwegler has again torn his interior cruciate ligament. He’ll be out for at least six weeks and will therefore miss his chance to make his senior international debut. Ouch. Get better soon, Schwegler.
Then comes the boring. Bayern’s new #1, Michael Rensing states the obvious and says that his [...]
Misery loves company
Posted in Bundesliga, tagged Pirmin Schwegler, Rudi Völler, Theofanis Gekas on 10 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Last weekend was torrid for me football-wise. I left the house with a good feeling about the Bayer-KSC match at half-time (there was no stream, so I followed the match on live-ticker), fully expecting a good result. After all, we were 3-1 up at halftime. Nothing could go wrong, right, right?
But [...]
The T-word und 12. Spieltag
Posted in Bundesliga, tagged Renato Augusto, René Adler on 6 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a short, short article at the Guardian about how the Werkself have quietly snuck into contention for the Bundesliga (can I say the word?!) title. Urgh. Title. I hate that word. I will refrain from further quoting Shakespeare out of context but it goes without saying that no sane Bayer fan will openly mention [...]
Moving stadia is hard (and expensive) to do
Posted in BayArena, tagged BayArena, Bruno Labbadia, René Adler, Simon Rolfes on 3 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Bayer officials met with the powers that be of Fortuna Düsseldorf today to discuss the details of the temporary groundshare that will begin in 2009 whilst the installation of the new roof at the BayArena is ongoing. The full report from the website is here but to summarise, Bayer will introduce [...]
