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Happy Birthday To Me
By: Abby |
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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 [...]
On And On And On
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In a lot of ways, our Bundesliga season should have been Werder Bremen’s. A build-up of good results, topping the table in the second half of the season for several weeks, perhaps a collapse towards the end of things. Werder Bremen are one of the more recognizable names of the recent Bundesliga and the neutral’s [...]
Category: match previewChins Up, Chins Up
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Right, then. I’ve had my sulk and now it’s time to get back to anticipation and support. These next few weeks are going to be hard, but damn it, there’s still hope. And whatever the case, we’ve got some great memories to fall back on.
Right now, we’ve got a decent game to recover our form [...]
Category: match previewOld Friends
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The first ever Hertha game I went to was against Stuttgart. It was at home, and after going behind Hertha came back to win it. This was before Hertha was winning games on a regular basis, back when Stuttgart were defending champions, and it was an exciting outing for me.
Since then, Hertha has played [...]
Category: match previewThe Bogey
By: Abby | 6 Comments
Normally, when a team at the top of the table meets a team towards the bottom, there’s not much to talk about and not much is expected. But nothing is normal about Hertha Berlin this season. So why should this be any different?
The bottom team in question is our Brandenburg neighbors, the consistently non-glamorous but [...]
Category: match previewBack to earth, now?
By: Abby | 1 Comment
It’s been an euphoric week for Hertha fans. After last week’s win we’ve been one of the stories of Europe, our unprepossessing little club without big-name stars or big-name spending in with a chance to win our first title in over 70 years. Hoffenheim? No way. We’re the story.
It hasn’t all been positive. In fact, [...]
Category: match previewClash of the Hoeness
By: Abby | 3 Comments
Normally, the talking points of a Bayern Munich-Hertha Berlin game is about the Hoeness brothers, or more likely, the difference in fortunes between them, with Uli lording over the perennially successful Bavarians and Dieter with the less-successful Berliners. (Not that there still isn’t some of that.) If there was talk of the table, it would [...]
Category: match previewI Like Internet Jokes
By: Abby | 2 Comments
Even when they’re old, and even when I reference them too much. Which means that every time I do a match preview for a game against Arminia Bielefeld, I will make a reference to one of my very favorites, the Bielefeld Conspiracy.
It’s still funny, damn it.
Anyways. We’ve got the Friday match this week, which used [...]
Category: match previewWe Are Your Friends
By: Abby | 1 Comment
It’s the last game before the winter break and the conclusion of what’s been a pretty neat Hinrunde for us. Fourth on thirty points, with wins over all but one of the top five. And we’ve got one more game to make it our best.
Our opponents are our Fanfreundschaft partners, Karlsruher SC. (Here’s my backround [...]
The “Home” Game
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After a bye last week, Hertha’s back into European competition tomorrow. The UEFA Cup beckons and tomorrow is probably the biggest game of all of ours- the visit of Turkish giants Galatasaray.
It’s a big game because, of course, there’s a massive Turkish population in Berlin (as there is in most major German cities). So [...]
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