Bundesliga starts at 40: An Englishman’s journey through German football....
“Why don’t you go off and watch some sport somewhere?” It was September 2011 and this advice was usually reserved for the days when my girlfriend wanted me out of the house. However, on this occasion...
View ArticleBundesliga starts at 40: An Englishman’s journey through German football....
For our third annual trip to Germany, my brother and I would be zigzagging across the Southwest for a whistle stop schedule of eight games in ten days. We’d left no margin for error so had booked...
View ArticleBundesliga Starts at 40: An Englishman’s Journey through German Football....
Having breathlessly navigated a run of three games in four days, my brother and I were firmly settled into our German adventure that hadn’t even reached the halfway point. After the previous night’s...
View ArticleBundesliga Starts at 40: An Englishman’s Journey through German Football....
For the penultimate leg of our trip, my brother and I would be travelling into vaguely familiar territory as we made our way to match 7 out of 8. We’d visited the Black Forest twice before during...
View ArticleAn Englishman’s English Week in Bavaria
Having just returned from our third successive pre-Christmas trip to Germany, my brother and I had no desire to wait another year for our next dose of live Bundesliga action. The upcoming “English...
View ArticleAn Englishman’s Football Excursion into Eastern Germany
Our previous four trips had seen my brother and I conquer vast swathes of the West, the North and the South of Germany, so it was inevitable that we’d focus our next adventure on the relatively...
View ArticleAn Englishman’s Early Season Bundesliga Weekend
Since diving head first into Bundesliga football during the autumn of 2011, my brother and I had made regular biannual trips to Germany that at their most chaotic had seen us squeeze as many as 8 games...
View ArticleAn Englishman’s Pre-Christmas Bundesliga Break
With the 2015 calendar having flipped over to November there was one pressing question on my mind as the festive season fast approached; could my brother and I sneak in a fifth and final Bundesliga...
View ArticleAn Englishman does the 2. Bundesliga Opening Weekend
The saying goes that with each new season brings new hope. So as my brother and I prepared for the 2016-17 campaign our main hopes were that our adventures in German football would continue unabated [...]
View ArticleAn Englishman Reaches His 50th German Stadium
When my brother and I first dipped our toes tentatively into the Bundesliga water back in October 2011, it was supposed to be nothing more than a spontaneous one-off adventure. Our aim was simply to...
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