
One Evening in October: FC Carl Zeiss Jena vs. AS Roma, 1980
To many followers of German football today, Carl Zeiss Jena are but a hazy blur on the landscape. At best, known as a small club connected in some way to a company that makes camera […]
To many followers of German football today, Carl Zeiss Jena are but a hazy blur on the landscape. At best, known as a small club connected in some way to a company that makes camera […]
Regardless of what happens today, yesterday’s 4-4 feast of a draw between Bayer Leverkusen and AS Roma at the BayArena is the match of the round. Perhaps feast is the wrong descriptor. Let’s try avant-garde […]
The meeting with AS Roma at the Allianz Arena was never going to be as spectacular as the record-breaking 7-1 triumph two weeks earlier at the Stadio Olimpico, but FC Bayern would book their place […]
FC Bayern would head to Rome for what would be billed as arguably the toughest match of the season so far, against an AS Roma side that had won its last five matches at the […]
A myth, a Club legend and one of Europe’s best strikers – they didn’t call him ”the King of Football” for nothing. ”That is Schaffer! Can you see what he is holding in his hands?” […]
The 1984-85 European campaign is one I would remember for all the wrong reasons as an FC Bayern fan. I was back in the UK and resident at a boarding school in the south-west, tucked […]
Carl Zeiss Jena were happy to send the Italians home after 90 minutes. East German coaching legend Hans Meyer has certainly had an illustrious and long career. The German press, and the Bild Zeitung in […]
When he succeeded Erich Ribbeck to become the eighth Nationaltrainer in the summer of 2000 at the age of forty, Rudolf “Rudi” Völler brought with him very little in the way of coaching experience – […]
This game was a classic example of a tale of two halves. Bayern progressed steadily after the kick off, finding it quite easy to stifle Roma, push them back and capitalize on their mistakes. The […]
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