The Bundesliga Season opened after its winter pause with  a loss for league leaders Bayern and 11th place Hertha Berlin, and a win for Schalke today over Stutgart 3-1.
Hertha Berlin ran into an inspired Nuremberg – who in their 1000th Bundesliga match – won at home 2-0 against a seemingly lackluster  Hertha Berlin. This was not the start that new Hertha coach Michael Skibbe had [...] Continue Reading…

Euro crisis and Economic Debt Crisis Worldwide will dominate for Berliners
On January 1st exactly 10 years ago in 2002, the Euro was introduced as a common currency in 12 European countries and a decade later, the jury is still out on whether it will be considered a success or a failure – this year will be a definitive one for the [...] Continue Reading…

According to media reports this evening Hertha Berlin coach Markus Babbel has confirmed recent rumors that he will in fact leave the club but is hopeful he can see out his contract to the end of the 2011//2012 season.

There were no direct reasons given for the falling out other than that it has been common knowledge that there was serious disagreement [...] Continue Reading…

“O was ist das schon’, the German audience sang in Hamburg last night and rightfully so. They saw an energetic, creative, alert and motivated team beat a lethargic, sleepy and leaderless Dutch team that seemed to just make the motions – as if they were there simply for some commercial contractual obligation and nothing more.

Now at the close of 2011, the year [...] Continue Reading…

On the 25th of September 2011, 40,000 people of varying levels of fitness set off for the 38th annual Berlin Marathon at 9am for what would, for many people, be a run that would last at least four hours. Some non-professionals can manage it in around three hours and the winner, Patrick Makau from Kenya completed the Berlin Marathon in [...] Continue Reading…

“Hertha Berlin, known as the Old Lady of German soccer, is finding her feet after a nasty fall into debt and decline.” – So reads the first sentence in a very good article which appeared in yesterdays New York Times by one of  its sports writer Rob Hughes. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/sports/soccer/05iht-soccer05.html

What follows is one of those typically popular, heart-warming American type of come-back stories [...] Continue Reading…

In the last Bundesliga game of the day, Hertha Berlin has continued to their winning ways since their return to the first division with a 3-0 win over Koln.

After have put 4 goals past various opponents in each of their last 2 out games, Koln was humbled by a wily Berlin side which played with an unrecognizable confidence.

Pierre-Michel Lasogga put 2 goals [...] Continue Reading…

Schalke Coach resigns!

Ralf Rangnick has resigned as head coach of German Bundesliga club Schalke 04 earlier today citing health reasons.

According to a to a press release from the club, the 53 year Rangnick has been suffering from something similar to ‘chronic-fatigue-syndrome’ which is just perhaps another way of saying he is just stressed out – and needs to withdraw from stressful situations [...] Continue Reading…

What an upset – what a shocker and yes even for Hertha Berlin fans!

Hertha Berlin, just a couple of weeks after their re-entry into the Bundesliga after having been relegated to the 2nd division last year, beat the current reigning champions, Dortmund!

After this game Dortmund side are now ….wait for it…..10th in the table! Always the consummate gentleman, Jurgen Klopp Dortmund’s manager [...] Continue Reading…

What is Ping Polf? Well, first of all, the easiest thing to do is to explain where the name came from, then you might be able to get some idea what the game involves. The name is a Portmanteau of the words Ping Pong and Golf, and the game involves the use of Ping Pong (Table Tennis) [...] Continue Reading…