On the face of things, pulling the score back to 3-3 having been 3-1 down at half-time is no mean achievement. However this only tells half the story on an evening that saw an unnecessarily exciting encounter shaped wholly by
It’s 11.11.11, and time for the report on the friendly international against the Ukraine in Kyiv. I have managed to find a fairly decent stream in Ukrainian on a channel called Inter (Інтер). It is working pretty well at the
Time for an update on the latest team news, and what – according to Kicker at least – looks like something approaching an experimental line-up by Nationaltrainer Joachim Löw. Having initially been left behind at the team hotel, Mario Gómez
And we have not forgotten. RIP Robert Enke, 10.11.2009.
Time for some latest news on the team for the friendly against the Ukraine in Kyiv this coming Friday, and the bad news that noth Miroslav Klose and Marco Reus are both out of the running. While I didn’t actually
Next week we see the Nationalmannschaft in two rather tasty-looking fixtures: away in Kiev against Euro 2012 co-hosts the Ukraine and then what should should be a classic at Hamburg’s AWD Arena against old rivals the Netherlands – twenty-three years
It’s the end of the month… Time for another update on the development of the website, and a status report on how things are going and what’s next on the agenda. Yes, there’s still lots and lots of work to
Finally, the Kicker Online and Bild ratings for both the Turkey and Belgium matches have been published – so let’s see how they compare with my scores and with each other.
With the qualification process for Euro 2012 almost at an end, I thought I’d provide a quick update on the teams that have already qualified, those that have made it into the play-offs and a quick overview of the draw
So the qualifying group that started in Brussels against Belgium last September is over, and has concluded with yet another satisfactory home victory over the same opposition to cap off a highly successful campaign. With a perfect record of ten
The final European Championship qualifying fixture against Belgium at Düsseldorf’s Esprit-Arena is just over three hours away now, and is live on ESPN here in the UK which means that all of you lucky readers will get your on-the-spot as-it-happens
Tomorrow evening Germany take on second-placed Belgium in Düsseldorf, in what will hopefully be a gala sign-off to what has been an encouraging and highly satisfactory qualifying campaign. While the game is technically meaningless for the Mannschaft there is still