

Martin Jol
Let the Games Begin!
By: Chris |Misdirection, obfuscation, and the old standby’s, rumor and inuendo–Transfer Season, of course. Game on bitches! Who got next?
Europa, here we come!
By: Evan |Well Ladies and Gentlemen, after some very tense games last night, HSV will be playing in the new Europa League competition! Unfortunately, living in the second most isolated city in the world means that I was stuck watching Wolfsburg (but when it’s Bremen being beaten thrashed, it’s all good!) Luckily Jan’s liveblog kept me updated [...]
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
By: Chris |This campaign had been most remarkable for Hamburg supporters. HSV were alive in all three competitions–the Bundesliga, the DFB-Pokal, and the UEFA Cup in mid-April–and looking to finally get that no-silverware-since-1987 monkey off our collective back. We truly looked as though we belonged on the big stage in Europe among the top clubs, the perennial [...]
HSV – Manchester City, part deux
By: Chris |The return leg of the UEFA Europa Cup tie between Hamburg and City is on tap for Thursday at the City of Manchester stadium. And yet again, HSV are going to be short-handed.
HSV – Man City UEFA Cup Preview
By: Chris |European competition comes to the ‘Bank on Thursday as HSV take on Manchester City in the quarter finals of the UEFA Cup. BMJ (that’d be Big Martin Jol) needs some warm bodies for his side. . .
HSV -NEC Nijmegen Preview
By: Chris |Now that the stage has been set by some great CL matches, it’s time to get ourselves over to the real party in Euro club football. Red-headed step child or not, it’s Europa UEFA Cup time.
Back in the High Life
By: Chris |Even though the knockout round of the Champions League begins this evening (and if you read this blog, you know damn well who I am cheering for and against), I would be remiss if I did not post something after Hamburg monumental defeat of valiant Leverkusen in Dusseldorf on Sunday.
NEC Nijmegen – Hamburg preview
By: Chris |Die Rothosen travel to Nijmegen to take on NEC in the first knockout round of the Europa (ne: UEFA) Cup.
MATCHDAY! Finally . . .
By: Chris |Yep, the Rückrunde (that’s the spring season/second half to you non-German speakers, you know, like myself) gets underway today with one of the marquee fixtures in all of football this weekend. Die Rothosen take on the Munich Machine at the ‘Bank.
Friday’s news
By: Chris |•The DFB has handed down its verdict on the dust up between Ivica Olic and Carlos Eduardo of TSG: Suspensions for both–2 Bundesliga games and 3 friendlies. Ouch. For HSV, Olic is out for the Bayern match on 30 January and the trip to Karlsruhe on 7 February.
•Mladen Petric is still nursing a tender calf [...]






