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 […]
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Leverkusen 4 – 4 AS Roma: Schmidt’s Zunkunftfußball on Tour
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 […]
Classy Bayern book their place in knockout stage after easy win against Roma
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 […]
Bayern in seventh heaven as Roma are torn apart in their own arena
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 […]
Forgotten legend – Alfréd Schaffer
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?” […]
Dumped out of the Cup and smacked across the palms: Everton v FC Bayern München, 1985
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 […]
Snapshot – AS Roma on a tight schedule
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 […]
Tante Käthe,The Accidental Nationaltrainer: Rudi Völler
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 – […]
AS Roma 3 – 2 Bayern Munich: A case study in Bayern’s weaknesses
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 […]
