It is hard to believe that the Euros are finally all over. Ten qualifying matches. Months of anticipation and buildup. Then, just over three weeks of football, extracting every last emotion and shredding every last nerve. Especially if you were
A settled team, a striker who really appears to have found his shooting boots, three more points, and a foot in the quarter-finals of the Euros… I don’t think that as supporters of the Nationalmannschaft we could have asked for
It will never get old. Every time the Nationalmannschaft gets one over these guys, I feel far better than if we had beaten Spain, Italy or even the Three Lions. It was close in the end and perhaps should have
Anyone who who is on this site should know what is going down in the otherwise obscure Eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv tonight, and if you don’t… Hmm. To avoid repeating much of what I have said in the last
OK, I’ve been holding off this one for a while – but the time has come to finally provide you all with some potted previews of the Mannschaft’s three group opponents for the upcoming Euro finals. Not too much depth:
Well, the draw for the finals of Euro 2012 has been made… OK, so it’s not as bad as the much-feared Spain-Portugal-France combo, but pretty tough all the same. Drawn in Group B based in the Ukraine, the Mannschaft have
So, finally – time for more analysis of the game against the Netherlands from earlier this week, as well as the usual player ratings. Although this was a only a friendly, the perfomance has to go down as one of
After what has been an interesting 2011 which has seen the completion of a successful European Championship qualification campaign and the development of a team that is looking good enough to win the tournament, the year comes to an end
Kicker Online’s ratings for the game against the Ukraine were published today, and make for some interesting comparisons to those posted by myself and Bild. While Bild and I disagreed on most things but selected the same Man of the
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