The Laughing Stock
By: Abby | October 7th, 2009So 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 seen the footage.
Now, those that are paying attention might remember that last week Hertha went out and signed a new goalkeeper to play backup to the 2 ahead of poor young Sascha that were injured. Timo Ochs was out of contract with Red Bull Salzburg, we needed a goalkeeper, so we had a new player. And…he became the third injured Hertha Berlin goalkeeper half an hour into the Hamburg game.
If it wasn’t farcical at Hertha Berlin before- and trust me, it was- this weekend it became practically a Molière play in the capitol city.
As a blogger, I scarcely know what to say, other than I don’t envy Friedhelm Funkel anything. Turning Hertha into a team with a defense would flummox anyone. I can only imagine how he must have felt after his first game on the Hertha bench. Plus, now Lukasz Piszczek is out for three weeks.
Sigh.
Lucien Favre had his press conference, a private affair at the Hotel Adlon. Berliner Morgenpost has some video and speculation about why he’d do such a thing. He didn’t say much, really, just that he’s made “too many compromises and errors” and wasn’t pleased with the lack of money and the players that came in. He said the players weren’t working against him and he didn’t have anything to do with Hoeness being fired, some statements that rose eyebrows. Generally, he read from cards and looked a bit freaked out. The speculation goes on, with no closure.
I don’t know. Everything’s making me a bit depressed these days, when everyone else is laughing.
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Hertha need to spend and spend big in the january transfer window…. otherwise we are going to be playing in the 2. bundesliga next year!
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Lulu did himself no favors with those last ramblings. I suspect his and Hertha’s parting was not as amicable as Micha Preetz made it out to be. That said, it’s time to see the Hamburg match for what it was — a freakish footballing catastrophe in which Hertha actually strung together 20 good minutes on the pitch. All we need to do to beat out next opponents Nuremberg is stay focusedand play hard. The Club, to put it simply, sucks. Especially if we get Cicero back, we should be able to dominate the midfield. If we get that ice-breaker win, I think we’ll be all right. Should we not, things would look dark indeed.
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There may have been doubts in recent weeks, but the words Hertha, Berlin and winning aren’t mutually exclusive. You need to lie about your h though.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1929145,00.htmlSo, one excuse less not to win in Nuremberg.
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I was at the game last Sunday. It was horrifying! I’ve never seen such a comical display of goalkeeping in my life! Hamburg didn’t play particularly well, but they didn’t need to when they were being gifted a victory by Hertha.
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