Hertha 1 - 1 Hannover 96 Early lead, stable defense, harmless opposition, one precise pass towards the end of injury time for the very late equalizer, yaddah, yaddah yaddah, mediocrity prevails. Second League mediocrity, that is. Promotion is now mathematically impossible, so we can fire up the barb...
Karlsruher SC 3 - 2 Hertha BSC OK, thanks for the info. 13 points above the relegation playoff sport with four match days to go, we also know we really, really won't be relegated this season (at least not for sports reason; we don't kow if we'll have a licence for the next one though). Played 158, w...
Exactly. Hertha are away to our neighbour in the table today, Karlsruhe. Bit of a character test: Do we make an attempt at the region immediately below promotion territory, just to prove we have the potential (and might have been up there but for the shitty start of the season in post-dodgy-invester...
It's OK. They are still fighting for their shot at the Bundesliga while we are trundling down towards an end of season placement between 8th and 12th place.
I must tell you this. I just heard the word 'plinth' spoken outside of IrU and our silly games, in all seriousness, in a Youtube video, by an actual English native speaker.
You may be interested to learn that Germany has a new national champion in the men's football Bundesliga, and for the first time in eleven years, it's not Bayern München. Bayer Leverkusen denied them their 12th successive title this time, with a crushing five nil home win over Werder Bremen with fiv...
These victories also mean we should both be out of relegation land, Fürth having jumped the 40 point mark five games ahead of the finish line Hertha sitting at 46. For Hertha, there is even a narrow window towards promotion. We are sitting between 5 and 8 (depending on how the weekend goes) points b...