Team News
RIP Robert Enke
By: Abby |
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I was going to say something about the Köln games and the events there, but now is not the time.
RIP Robert Enke, and my thoughts are with his family.
Category: Team News
False Glimmers
By: Abby | 1 Comment
You know what would have been nice? A terrible, clogging draw, the kind of uninspired awfulness that gives the football haters of America all the proof they need that this is a horrible sport. One with no good chances, fouls, and nothing interesting to talk about.
Ahhh.
Instead, the vague hope of a turnaround that I felt [...]
Category: Team NewsDark 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 NewsThe 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 [...]
Category: Team NewsSo This Is Goodbye
By: Abby | 10 Comments
My mother once told me, when I was new to following football and indeed any sport, that your team will always break your heart. They will always lose. Your favorite player will always get sold, traded, or disappoint you some other way. The management will always do something to anger you. Your moments of happiness [...]
Category: Team NewsOne in a Million
By: Abby | 3 Comments
One of the first times (and still one of the few) I read something in-depth about Hertha Berlin was in Simon Kuper’s Football Against the Enemy. There’s a chapter in there about a Hertha fan from East Berlin and his troubles with the Stasi, all relating to football. Like the rest of the book, it’s [...]
Category: Team NewsBreak His Heart, Not Mine
By: Abby | 3 Comments
First off: everyone’s got to go and read the conversation in the last post. Some great insight into the situation currently at Hertha. (I pretty much agree with Jan, for what it’s worth.)
A tough stretch awaits Hertha BSC Berlin, a stretch that would be tough even if we weren’t in the position we find ourselves [...]
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