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We Didn’t Want Your Stupid Salad Plate Anyway
By: Abby |
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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 [...]
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Officially in Europe
By: Abby | 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: match reportsHappy Birthday To Me
By: Abby | 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 [...]
Gojko Kacar is Not A Brazilian
By: Abby | 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: match reportsIt’s Comforting, In A Way
By: Abby | 6 Comments
A “highly efficient” Hertha performance, featuring defending described mostly as “solid”, produced a 1-0 win away to Hoffenheim. It was another one of those games in which the other team dominated, should have won on multiple occasions, hit the crossbar, and yet lost as we managed to score with our one shot on target.
It [...]
Category: match reportsWe’re Not Dead Yet
By: Abby | 24 Comments
Just when it seemed like the dreams were dead - 70 minutes into what looked like our fourth loss in a row - they showed a flicker of life. After the full 90, they think they’ll go for a walk.
The first half was one of those games where it looked like proof that our luck [...]
It Pours
By: Abby | 4 Comments
As the spring approaches and the Seattle weather turns to the sort of thing that we don’t tell outsiders about, all the clouds and gloom are coming instead from Hertha Berlin.
Saturday’s game against Hanover didn’t fail to stop our bad run of form; it just compounded it, with a 2-0 loss. That’s now three in [...]
I Know It’s Gonna Happen Someday
By: Abby | 3 Comments
The way this season has gone, it only makes sense that when we do finally lose, it’s to the team that we always beat.
Grumble.
It was a bad day for us. There’s not much more that can be said. Sometimes we’ve been bad and still won; this time, we were bad and just bad. It’s not [...]
Das geht ab
By: Abby | 5 Comments
Signs that things are different for Hertha this season: they’re the live game on GolTV’s Bundesliga coverage, and they’ve got the superstar commentary team (Ray and Phil, of course) talking over it. True, Hertha v. Leverkusen is on paper more exciting than Bayern v. Bochum, but it’s still probably something that wouldn’t have happened last [...]
What is up with Wolfsburg?
By: Abby | No Comments
The Hertha story of this season, to hear it retold from neutrals, is of Hertha winning a lot of games where they should have lost. That’s been the standard line. The one exception that’s usually brought up was the game against Wolfsburg, where Hertha should have won but instead drew 2-2. And the new exception? [...]
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