

Eredivise
Circling the drain
By: Chris |Our Hanseaten heroes are back to their blundering ways, having lost any momentum they may have gained in their well-played defeat to Bremen, with their away loss to relegation-strugglers Cottbus. Cottbus, for their part, ensured that they will stay in the 1. Bundesliga with a victory. Not sure what else there is to say about [...]
Resolution? Ha!
By: Chris |We should know by the end of this week month season year decade who the new manager is. There really isn’t anything else left to write about this season.
Last week in this space, I speculated that the club’s directors hadn’t talked to Ex-Spurs boss Martin Jol about the post in a while. Turns out I am pretty [...]
Nevermind
By: Chris |Nevermind that the Dinosaur lost to Duisburg (?!) at home Saturday. Nevermind that 4 regulars will be missing from the next match, including captain VDV. Nevermind that the side are in a complete freefall (I have had Tom Petty in my head non-stop since Saturday morning) right now, having collected exactly 2 points in their [...]
Monday mourning
By: Chris |Turns out I am a realist. HSV dropped to third in the Bundesliga after Saturday’s away defeat to current title-holders Stuttgart, 1-0. The story of the match was Hamburg’s failure to capitalize on opportunities, particularly in the 2nd half when the practically camped out in the Stuttgart end. But in the end, they failed to score [...]
I can’t make this sh*t up
By: Chris |Top of the table drops 2 points on the road in the Bavarian derby, 3rd and 4th place are both defeated, and all HSV can manage is a draw versus a team in the drop zone. Way to see the big picture and take the bull by the horns. Oh, and Schalke leapt from fifth to third with [...]
The Search Continues
By: Chris |If you follow Hamburg or the Bundesliga at all, you know that HSV’s manager Huub Stevens is leaving at the end of the current campaign to take over at Dutch giants PSV Eindhoven. Stevens announced his intention to move in late November (while I was on Thanksgiving holiday, thank you–couldn’t you have waited until I [...]







