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May 20th, 2009

We Didn’t Want Your Stupid Salad Plate Anyway

By: Abby | Comments 6 Comments

As I was explaining to a friend of mine, while watching my third disappointing draw of the day, Hertha’s result meant that they’re out of a title race they should never have been part of in the first place.
That doesn’t mean it doesn’t sting.
But it does mean that despite the disappointment, despite the [...]

Category Category: match reports


May 15th, 2009

Getting Dizzying

By: Abby | Comments 2 Comments

Two games left. Two games left, and things can still change completely. Even after tomorrow’s game who knows what will happen to us? It’s the crazy year for the Bundesliga.
In a normal year, the positions of ourselves and Schalke 04, tomorrow’s opponents, would be expected to be reversed. We’d be the ones in eighth with [...]

Category Category: match preview
May 13th, 2009

Officially in Europe

By: Abby | Comments 4 Comments

The stated goal of this season, by Lucien Favre himself, was the UEFA Cup (well, the Europa League, Ibut I’m not used to that yet). Qualification for Europe was a respectable goal from a team that had come in 10th two seasons in a row but still had some ambitions. It was doing better, but [...]

Category Category: match reports
May 11th, 2009

Happy Birthday To Me

By: Abby | Comments 7 Comments

On May 9, I turned 24. Hertha Berlin were kind enough to give me the birthday present I really wanted – 3 points from Bochum. And not just that, but my old favorite Jens Lehmann and his VfB Stuttgart also had a present for me- a total demolition of Wolfsburg to bring us within just [...]

May 6th, 2009

Planning for the Future

By: Abby | Comments 3 Comments

It’s hard to comprehend that we’re four games away from the end of the season, and in just a short time the transfer window will be opened. The final games have taken on such importance and our final place in the table is still so up in the air that I can’t even think of [...]

Category Category: transfer news


May 4th, 2009

Gojko Kacar is Not A Brazilian

By: Abby | Comments 5 Comments

No matter what Ray Hudson says.
But he’s a talented young prospect anyway, and he showed why with his equalizer Sunday against Hamburg. An absolute belter of a goal from 28 meters, the sort of goal that makes the normally calm Hudson excited. (I could not find his comments, but I was entertained. Edit: Jan [...]

Category Category: match reports



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