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November 10th, 2009

Hooray for FC Hollywood

By: Luke | Comments 5 Comments

First of all, apologies to all of you for a slow response to this most interesting of weekends. Although I don’t blame the match, I’ve been pretty sick for three days, but trying to make a comeback today.
Clearly, I don’t want to write a match review. I’d simply make two points about the [...]



November 5th, 2009

FC Bayern vs Schalke 04: The Search For a Non-Stereotypical Storyline

By: Luke | Comments 14 Comments

This is a terrific match for a lazy writer. So many storylines fall right into your lap. For this occasion, I could: a) Talk about how how Felix Magath’s dismissal from Bayern looks like a terrible mistake in retrospect and b) make a very negative indictment of Louis van Gaal by some statistical [...]

October 29th, 2009

Adios, Jose Ernesto Sosa

By: Luke | Comments 6 Comments

The club has confirmed that Jose Ernesto Sosa has been loaned to his old Argentine club Estudiantes de la Plata for the remainder of the season. So begins the pruning of the Bayern roster that Uli Hoeness promised just a couple days ago. With Sosa’s contract in Munich set to expire in 2011, [...]

October 16th, 2009

Robben now out of Freiburg match; Demichelis to catch up on sleep

By: Luke | Comments 2 Comments

Completely invalidating an entire section of yesterday’s entry, Arjen Robben apparently forgot to rub magic spray or Paulaner or whatever miracle salve he was using on his surgically repaired knee and did not make the trip to Freiburg with the team. If nothing else works, he will start bathing in a nice 1985 vintage [...]

September 20th, 2009

Player of the Week vote

By: Angela | Comments 3 Comments

I couldn’t be happier that one of my very favorites, the Beautiful Belgian Bull aka Daniel van Buyten, is up for Player of the Week at the Official Bundesliga Website. If you would all do me a big favor and head on over there and vote for Daniel, I would greatly appreciate it. [...]



September 17th, 2009

Preview: FC Bayern Munich vs. 1. FC Nürnberg

By: Luke | Comments 3 Comments

The Bayern-Derby will kick off at 9:30 a.m. EST on Saturday. Those who are really in the spirit can begin drinking at about 6 a.m. EST when Munich Oberbürgermeister Christian Ude (sadly, an 1860 board member) taps the first keg to open Oktoberfest! The match will be shown live on ESPN Deportes and [...]

September 12th, 2009

Louis, I think this is the beginning….

By: Luke | Comments 10 Comments

It’s amazing that a match that was so frustrating to watch for the first half hour or so would turn out to be perhaps even more exciting than last week. Bullet goals, mad dashes, familiar and not so familiar faces on the score sheet, we have everything to be excited about.
*In the most [...]

August 30th, 2009

10 thoughts after #10’s day in the sun

By: Luke | Comments 12 Comments

1) A day later is perhaps a better time to write, letting the euphoria of a skillful, beautiful, exciting victory sink in a little bit. But as fans, we’ve got to try to maintain some balance to things. Just as last weekend should not have sent us looking for a ledge to leap [...]

August 27th, 2009

Robben’s new ‘hood & Champions League at a glance

By: Luke | Comments 12 Comments

Bayern’s official website has confirmed the Robben transfer as a fait accompli. Credit to reader jocamryn, who stole a little of my intended thunder, as my original headline was going to be something like “Hoeness touts Robben’s versatility, Dutchman to start in goal Saturday”. Maybe Hoeness just held up a picture of Ludovic [...]

August 19th, 2009

Görlitz scores against Görlitz, a goal for the ages remembered & other curiousities

By: Luke | Comments 7 Comments

FC Bayern was victorious in their Testspiel in Saxony against Gelb-Weiss Görlitz by the final count of 10:0. Former Bayern star Jens Jeremies was a youth player for Gelb-Weiss, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this season. His pro club was happy to repay his loyalty over the years by participating in the [...]






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