Bundesliga Splashes

Well, the Business-Punchinellos in the Bundesliga management decided before that season that it would be a great idea to bring back the 1991 abrogated relegation play-off games, meaning that the 16^th of the Bundesliga plays the 3^rd of the 2^nd Bundesliga in back-to-back matches. We now get treated with soccer-istical dainties such as Cottbus against Nuremberg. Anyway, the first match was played today, Cottbus lost 0-3 at home. Ouch! Nuremberg is getting ready to celebrate their promotion into the Bundesliga after the second leg on Sunday.

Meanwhile did Oliver Kahn interfere in the transfer politics of his old club Bayern Munich. And I’ve got to say, I share his opinion this time. He commented on Bayern’s request for Manuel Neuer, the goalkeeper of Schalke 04, saying that ‘he is a talented goalie, no more, no less’. And he doesn’t see a huge difference between him and Michael Rensing as they both have times where they play for the gallery as well as they’re fault-prone every now and then.

The next one could’ve been written by Mrs. Morissette. As Hamburg is losing their coach and are on the manhunt once again, you hear the name of Leverkusen’s coach Bruno Labbadia suddenly more often. He on the other hand is pretty much livin’ on the edge (yeah, this was Aerosmith, I know) at the Bayer club at the moment, as a loss in the DFB-Pokal final on Saturday would mean his sack. And who would Leverkusen lose to? Werder Bremen. Yes, their rival Werder Bremen who knocked the Redpants out of two semi-finals and defeated them three times in 19 days. So apparently, Werder could now help Hamburg to get the coach they want to have. Ah, Alanis…