Time for another update. I have now taken photographs of my entire match programme and ticket collection, and these have now been added to the match reports pages. Since my last blog post I have also put together my notes
Getting with the Programme
March Site Update
I just thought I’d keep subscribers and followers up to date with the latest progress on the main site. Three more match reports in the Germany v England feature section were completed, the 1972 two-legged European Championship quarter-final and the
Match Reviews: Ongoing
Some of those of you following the development of the archive may have seen the section devoted to matches between Germany and England – a sub-project that is still ongoing on account of my writing detailed reports on each match.
Immer, immer… Italien.
There was a vote on satellite channel ESPN for viewers to decide which match to show live: Germany-Italy or France-Brazil in Paris. The Germany game got the short straw and hence was shown after the France game finished (the French
Tonight’s XI
OK, I never expected Jogi to choose the team I outlined earlier this week, and the line-up is not too much of a surprise save for Dennis Aogo starting in place of Arne Friedrich and the just fit-again Miro starting
Italy again in Dortmund…
I am sure most of you reading this will want to forget the last time Germany played Italy in Dortmund – so Wednesday’s encounter against the Azzurri might offer an opportunity to make up for some of the hurt of
Site update…
So, we are almost a month into 2011, and the project is still ticking along. Most of the new changes have been made to the statistics section, where you can now find a complete list of all Germany’s fixtures since
A goalless finish
Germany finished the year with a goalless draw in Sweden – only the third time in seventeen games where they have failed to hit the target. They could not be accused of not trying, as a largely experimental side including
New faces for Sweden
Tomorrow the Mannschaft take on Sweden in Gothenburg in their final game of what has been a highly entertaining year. Remaining true to his policy of using friendly fixtures to blood younger players, Nationaltrainer Jogi Löw has pencilled in a
One year…
since the death of Robert Enke. Ruhe in Frieden, Robert.
Four from four.
Germany’s final competitive fixture of 2010 against Kazakhstan garnered the desired result – though it was a well-earned victory. The 3-0 result may have made things look convincing, but for the first forty-eight minutes the unheralded Kazakhs gave as good
A Kazakh Adventure
Kazakhstan. A country unknown to many, and one that would have been unknown to many more were if not for the film about its allegedly most famous son Borat Sagdaev. A country famous for a weird, peasant-like people, bizarre public