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High Flying
By: Abby |
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That’s what Hertha is right now. Even Raphael Honigstein is saying it (we’re the surprise package, after Hoffenheim, apparently). That means that, as we head to Werder Bremen in the first week of November, we’re five places ahead of the Champions League team. And even if we lose at the Weserstadion, we’ll still be ahead [...]
Revenge?
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Tomorrow we take our inexplicably excellent away form off to Dortmund to take on Borussia Dortmund and their bumblebee outfits, which I have always liked for some reason. I think I just enjoy yellow kits. We’ve already been to Dortmund once this season, for our annual collapse in the early rounds of the DFB-Pokal, where [...]
Category: match previewSweet Sixteen
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Or, Why We Probably Still Need Marko Pantelic.
Benfica heads back to Lisbon with their record of never winning in Germany intact, drawing 1-1 in front of 26,144 at the Olympiastadion. Benfica were the first to score, in the 51st minute, but Hertha equalized and that was how the game ended. Hertha were far from cowed [...]
Category: Team NewsGerman Jinxes
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Apparently, Portuguese giants Benfica have a poor record in Germany. They’ve played 15 games on German soil and lost 11 of them. They’ve never won any of them. They’ve only scored 13 goals.
However, that also shows that they’ve been playing in Europe for long enough that they’ve had 15 opportunities to play in Germany. Their [...]
Category: europeThanks, Stuttgart!
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And Hertha have now won at home.
It would be against Stuttgart, of course, because Hertha has an increasingly odd hold over the 2007 Bundesliga champions, beating them on a regular basis. There’s not a particularly good reason why we should keep beating them, other than that we do, and as much as I generally like [...]
Category: Team NewsThanks, Bild!
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As much as I enjoy international football- and I do, especially the Germany-Russia game from Saturday- it’s not the most exciting for a club blogger. Fortunately, when things get a little boring, there’s always Germany’s favorite tabloid (and my most-often read news source, sadly, due to it being written at such a level that even [...]
Category: ComedyWe’ll Always Have Otaci
By: Abby | 3 Comments
The UEFA Cup sure has been fun, hasn’t it? A few clubs I’d never heard of, a bit of coverage from the Irish press where Hertha were talked about as near-giants of the European game. Good times. And now, we’re in the group stages.
I have to say, I’m not hugely confident about getting farther than [...]
Category: europeRoad Warriors?
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Four played, three won. That’s the Hertha BSC Berlin away record so far in the 2008-2009 season. To put that in perspective, we won 3 away games in all of last season. It’s only October and we’ve already made that. And to make things even more bizarre, we’ve yet to win at home.
Saturday’s game [...]
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