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Germany v Paraguay: Match Analysis and Player Ratings 15 Aug 2013 | 04:15 pm
The first match of the 2013/14 season – and indeed the first tentative steps on the road to next year’s FIFA World Cup in Brazil – would be taken on a dry evening in Kaiserslautern’s Fritz-Walter-Stad...
Paraguay. Peinlich. 15 Aug 2013 | 02:20 am
Usually the early season friendly fixture sees a side packed with youngsters, but for what I think is the first time in his tenure as Nationaltrainer Joachim Löw has named a close to full-strength sta...
2013/14 Kicks off in Kaiserslautern 8 Aug 2013 | 06:01 pm
It’s difficult to believe how quickly the last few months have gone – maybe it has been the exceptionally decent weather. When I last looked at the match countdown there would be more than ninety days...
2013 US Tour School Report 15 Jun 2013 | 06:45 am
I started writing this two-match report after the first instalment of Germany’s much-criticised post-season (or should I say tail of the season) tour against Ecuador in Boca Raton, but the second matc...
A Weird Encounter in Washington 3 Jun 2013 | 03:31 am
It’s a warm and humid afternoon in Washington DC, and both teams make their way out into the RFK Memorial Stadium for what is the Nationalmannschaft’s final game of what has been a fantastic season fo...
Fastest Goals and Florida Flattery 30 May 2013 | 02:21 am
The two teams walk out to a sparsely-populated stadium in Boca Raton, where most of the support appears to be for the yellow-shirted South Americans. It is a cloudy and somewhat humid afternoon in Flo...
Retained, Recalled, Recruited. 17 May 2013 | 02:59 pm
So, we have our squad of twenty-three players for the two-match tour of the United States, numbered from one to twenty-four with no number nineteen. Weird. Maybe Paul Hardcastle had something to do wi...
Is it really worth it? 16 May 2013 | 04:19 pm
In a couple of hours’ time, Nationaltrainer Jogi Löw will announce his squad for the upcoming end of season two-match tour of the United States, which sees the team take on Ecuador in Boca Raton follo...
Have we seen the last of the great German centre-forward? 14 May 2013 | 04:56 am
The recent ongoing debate over the concept the of the strikerless “False Nine” and Nationaltrainer Joachim Löw’s decision not to play a regular centre-forward in Germany’s more recent matches has prom...
“You always can tell a thoroughgoing bastard when you see one” 11 May 2013 | 09:21 pm
I was all set to post up the eighth instalment of the One Cap Wonders series today, but other developments have pushed it aside. Namely, the ongoing saga regarding the use of images on the site. Havin...
