Bundesliga Fanatic

Crisis is a big word. However, if we look it up in the dictionary, it comes up as “a time of intense difficulty, trouble or danger”. Now, would that not apply to Borussia Dortmund? After yesterday’s 1-0 home defeat to Bayer Leverkusen, not only are they three points behind die Werkself but a whopping ten points behind […]

If you don’t live in Germany and you tell someone you support Borussia Dortmund, you might have been called anything from being a “fair-weather fan” or a “damn hipster” to even the cliché of  ”support your local club, you @#$%&.” Well, Borussia Dortmund achieved fantastic results last year, but that’s precisely it, BVB is sooooo […]

Last week, German football was saddened by the death of one of its greatest icons, Walter Frosch. Frosch, became a German football legend for his on-pitch performances, his extravagant antics off it and, perhaps anecdotally, his moustache and floppy hair. A lover of football and life in general, he lost his fight with cancer, which […]

Yet another box is ticked for the mighty Rekordmeisters.  The list of Jupp Heynckes’ accomplishments with his 2012-13 incarnation of Bayern Munich is massive– not only are they the first German team to win the illustrious, elusive treble– but it was done in clinical, devastating style; taking down records left and right along the way. […]

“It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man’s character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.” This quote, attributed to the great American author Mark Twain, is a reference to what is known as Historical Recurrence, a theory of history with the basic premise that historical […]

Speed is a mightily important asset of Borussia Dortmund’s weaponry when going forward but without precision, needless to say it is futile. Jürgen Klopp craves both of these attributes from his side. Yet that precision in front of goal hasn’t always been present, even in the seasons when Borussia won the Bundesliga back in 2011 […]

First off, it’s best to start by saying that Borussia Dortmund have had appalling luck with injuries this weekend and that it’s an extreme case to present as an argument for anything. No team in the world could have predicted having all four of their starting defenders injured at the same time, never mind against […]

After two wins on the bounce at the start of the season Werder have slowed down considerably and have arrived in the bottom half of the table. Here’s why. The Green and Whites have only taken two wins from their last 11 outings, losing 6 matches during that period of time. As predicted earlier this […]

Before international distractions provided such an ill-timed intervention, Bayern Munich smashed a Bundesliga record by going 37 consecutive games unbeaten. The Bavarians surpassed Hamburg’s (HSV) record set in the 1982-83 season with a routine 3-0 derby win over Augsburg, Bayern’s sixth consecutive win in all competitions. Bayern’s last domestic defeat stretches way back to Sunday […]

Per Mertesacker’s not renowned for being the quickest player but on Tuesday night, he took it to new levels. It was nearly an hour after the game had finished before Germany’s match winner entered the Wembley mixed zone. To be fair to the Arsenal defender, he wore the look of a player who had been […]