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By: Abby |
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Finally, a bit of a turnaround. It took a change of coach, undignified sniping in the press, and until October to do it, but we’ve got another point in the Bundesliga. Defending champions Wolfsburg, home of some particularly potent attackers, were held to a 0-0 draw. And with it, maybe, just maybe, some signs of [...]
Category: match reports
Dark Before the Dark
By: Abby | 9 Comments
It doesn’t get easier.
13,334 showed up to the cavernous Olympiastadion on Thursday to see Hertha lose 1-0 to Heerenveen, a team ranked third from bottom in the Dutch league. Like us, they’d been struggling after a successful previous season (coming in 5th and winning the Dutch cup), and sacked their manager. It would have been [...]
Category: Team NewsWe’re Hertha and You’re Not
By: Abby | 8 Comments
I have a couple friends here who are fellow Bundesliga fans. When we meet up, we chat about what’s going on in the league, the stories and gossip of our respective teams. It’s usually pretty fun.
These days, they’ve been asking me “what’s up with Hertha?” And every time I reply “I have no damn clue.”
Because [...]
Category: Team NewsLet’s Try And Not Suck So Bad
By: Abby | 5 Comments
That’s the message that new manager Friedhelm Funkel has for Hertha fans. It’s the pragmatic sort of message that Funkel’s reputation suggested he would say.
Of course, what else can he say? A team in turmoil, rock-bottom, with a confusing situation in the backroom and nearly an entire squad of injuries (including 3 injured goalkeepers). The [...]
Category: match previewThe Laughing Stock
By: Abby | 4 Comments
So by now, everyone and their football blog-reading mother has seen what happened in Berlin this weekend. In case you’ve been blacked out, it’s all here. Hertha Berlin, against Hamburg, a team we’d had a surprising hold on (particularly in Berlin), scored four goals, but only one in their net. And Sascha Burchert…well, you’ve all [...]
Category: Team NewsThe Successor
By: Abby | 10 Comments
It’s official: Friedhelm Funkel is the new coach of Hertha BSC Berlin.
He spent the past five years as manager of Eintracht Frankfurt, before leaving at the end of last season. At Frankfurt, he got them up, kept them up, and even brought them to Europe via a cup final, so he has the sort of [...]
Someone Heard A Rumor, That Someone Has To Pay
By: Abby | 3 Comments
Claims and counter-claims litter the papers.
The facts: Lucien Favre is gone, after being one of the most feted coaches in Germany. Upon leaving, the also-fired Harald Gämperle, Favre’s long-term aide, said that the players were the reason for his sacking, as they’d “never worked under such a good coach.”
Needless to say, the papers [...]
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