Oh. My. Goodness. What else is there to say? Well, there is a lot to say, to be honest. When die Blauen Blog went into its own Winter Break I was chewing on...

Happy Boxing Day folks! The holidays means days where I have nothing to do but play FIFA 08, so the Virtual Season got some work put into it. Now, in our last episode,  Arminia had...

After Friday's debacle, I waited to post about the match as I knew something had to give after Dortmund took Arminia to the woodshed. An exhilarating start to the season has turned into a...

Well, things don’t always go as they should. Of course, this should be a given, for yours truly this was the case this past five days or so. First off, the midweek post was supposed to conta...

It was a beautiful autumn Saturday at my humble abode. I found the Bayer Leverkusen-Arminia Bielefeld match on TV, and was settling down for what I would assume to be a pretty cracking match....

In an earlier post, I posted a column by Uli Hesse-Lichtenberger which sang the praises of manager Ernst Middendorp on ESPN Soccernet. Well, the lovefest for the mercurial manager continues on...

Despite my best efforts, mastery of the German language has eluded me. After all, it isn't the easiest language to learn, and as Mark Twain summed the experience up: Whenever [a] German dive...