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September 8th, 2009

Um. Well. Um.

By: Abby | Comments 2 Comments

It’s an international break, and from a Hertha perspective, it’s pretty damn boring. Some of the team is gone, and those that aren’t don’t have much to do. They had a friendly against 9th-division side Altenberge, where they scored 10 goals (Artur Wichniarek knocked up a hat-trick, 19-year-old Tim Scheffler did as well, new signing [...]



August 31st, 2009

If You Survive Me

By: Abby | Comments 5 Comments

In April, last season, the come-from-behind 2-1 win against Werder Bremen caused a lot of us to believe that we were really going to do something. True, it was late in a disappointing season for the northerners, and even truer, we’d been pounded on earlier in the season for the away game, but it was [...]

August 10th, 2009

Go Back To The Start

By: Abby | Comments 12 Comments

A battling 1-0 win that my Bayern-supporting friend (bitterly, after I teased him about which team had won and which team didn’t on Saturday) referred to as “boring”?
Oh yes, it’s good to be back.
Hannover, much to my pessimistic predictions, put up more of a fight than they appeared capable of in pre-season. They had the [...]

August 6th, 2009

Hey, Remember That Swedish Guy?

By: Abby | Comments 2 Comments

You know, the one I said signed for Lazio and that our Lazio blogger said signed for AZ Alkmaar?
Turns out neither of us were right, and as of today, he’s a Hertha Berlin player.
His name is Rasmus Bengtsson and it’s got all the signs of a transfer coup. AZ are the reigning champions of Holland, [...]

July 30th, 2009

Why I Love Lucien Favre

By: Abby | Comments 1 Comment

Let’s face it- I’m a hopeless fangirl when it comes to our coach. You know it, I know it, it’s all over the damn blog. There’s something about his method and style that gels perfectly with what I want the coach of my football club to be like.
The most recent example of this: he’s having [...]

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July 28th, 2009

This Was Totally Necessary, I’m Sure

By: Abby | Comments 3 Comments

A friendly against FC Lübars, who you may remember from when we adopted their women’s team as our own, ended in a 23-0 victory for the Herthaners. That’s correct, 23 goals.
It’s always hard to know how to report on wins like this. On the one hand, goals are awesome, especially goals for Hertha. On the [...]

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July 27th, 2009

Meet the New Simunic, and A Few Others

By: Abby | Comments 3 Comments

So, after a bit of the standard transfer hemming and hawing, we’ve got our man. 21-year-old Nemanja Pejcinovic, billed as the ‘new Josip Simunic’ by some in the press, has joined Hertha after impressing Lulu in a week-long trial. While at one point it seemed like the deal wouldn’t go through, something was worked out [...]

July 16th, 2009

All the Tabloid Favorites

By: Abby | Comments 1 Comment

That’s what Hertha has right now.
A 2-0 friendly win against Ferencvaros of Budapest (just a bit over the border from the Austrian training camp) was more notable for the trouble at it than the game itself. Goals from Cicero and Gojko Kacar were overshadowed by the events away from the pitch. 3 Hertha fans were [...]

July 6th, 2009

Image Is Everything

By: Abby | Comments 4 Comments

Like every other team, Hertha has a spate of friendlies lined up, to fine-tune the team before the season gets underway. Among the 8th-division teams and other assorted opponents scheduled, there are two that, to me, stand out.
The first is right upon us- this Wednesday, in fact. It’s the opening game of the revamped stadium [...]

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July 2nd, 2009

Where To Now?

By: Abby | Comments 3 Comments

It’s signed, sealed, and exit-interviewed: Josip Simunic has left Hertha after nearly 10 years.
I honestly thought it wasn’t going to happen. A bit of a boy-who-cries wolf scenario. A player can talk about leaving only so much before I stop believing him, and it seems that my entire time doing this blog he’s been [...]






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