Kaiserslautern romped to a 3-1 away win as they opened their Bundesliga season against FC Koln on Saturday. Just two years earlier, the club narrowly escaped relegation to Germany's third division after a horrendous start to the 2007-2008 season, where the club managed just three victories in nineteen league matches. In the summer of 2008, […]

Saturday's Bundesliga matches saw Gladbach take on Nurnberg, Koln host Kaiserslautern, Frankfurt travel to Hannover, Freiburg battle St. Pauli, Hoffenheim host Werder Bremen, and Schalke travel to Hamburg. Gladbach opened the day against relegation play-off winners Nurnberg, who defensive stability earned them a point in this match. Nurnberg opened the scoring through midfielder Jens Hegeler, […]

AC Milan didn't exactly have a disappointing season, they just didn't achieve much. And while the team is full of very old players (remember Oddo?), there is a project in place, this project starts with Allegri, a new, relatively young, and attacking coach. While maybe this upcoming season might not be the best for the […]

Everyone knows when you travel up to Toronto, Ontario, Canada you will have a tough time earning any form of points against this Toronto FC side at their fortress called BMO Field. The challenge for the Red Bulls was to try and get at least a point against Canada's top Division I side. Well within […]

Stoke City lost a hard fought match on Saturday at home to Tottenham as yet more controversy surfaces concerning goal-line technology. Spurs went up in the first half thanks to a bundled goal off the face of Gareth Bale before Ricardo Fuller equalized for Stoke City after showing his well-timed striker's instinct. Bale again scored, […]

Huang Abandons Liverpool Bid Kenny Huang has abandoned his bid to take over Liverpool FC on behalf of Chinese sports investment firm QSL, a source told The Guardian. Huang was long considered the only viable contender to take over the debt-riddled club. Huang's withdrawal is rumored to be because of frustrations with the pace of […]

No stranger to German football but new to writing for Bundesliga Talk, I'm interested in knowing which club readers of this site support. Take a second to vote in the poll below so the writers for this site can get a better idea of who the readers want to hear about the most. If there's […]

Sometimes I'm proud to be British. But other times, I'm ashamed. After watching a documentary series on YouTube entitled "Hooligans Untold Story," an investigative look inside the world of England football hooligans by the renowned team from BBC's Panorama, I was very ashamed especially since the footage was only a few years ago, from 2006. […]

Steve McClaren made history today by being the first English manager to take charge of a Bundesliga side, but he could not secure what would have been an historic win over Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich. Goals from Thomas Mueller and Edin Dzeko, and then a dramatic winner from Bastian Schweinsteiger just thirty seconds from full-time, […]

Well I have to say that this was a very good week for MLS sides getting involved with the CONCACAF Champions League Group Stages. In the first week of competition we saw three of the four sides earn wins. Unfortunately for the Seattle Sounders they were hit with some bad luck once it got towards […]

Brazilian midfielder Wesley has today completed his transfer to the Bundesliga with Werder Bremen. Wesley, aged 21, is another of a long line of Santos wonderkids to come through the side and make their way to Europe. Wesley's versatility is what will make him such a special capture for Werder Bremen. The young Brazilian is […]

Serie B champions Lecce have once again made the jump to Serie A, two years after finishing nineteenth and being relegated. Prior to that they spent two years in Serie B, preceded by three years in Serie A. As you can see, Lecce has made a habit of bouncing up and down the ranks, making […]

Roy Hodgson is a saint. Well, not exactly, but if you wanted to get a good indication of what type of person he is and how much patience he has, watch the above video of yesterday's Liverpool press conference after Liverpool's 1-0 win over Trabzonspor. A Turkish journalist staggered in front of Hodgson while he […]

As news that Turkish club Besiktas are prepared to take Robinho off Manchester City’s books for a cool 16 million British pounds with ten million more on offer in performance-related payments, it raises an important question. Just how poor does your form, commitment and professional behaviour have to be before a football club will stop […]

After reading Jesse Chula's article about how many Premier League matches will you watch this weekend, it made me contemplate how different the TV and Internet viewing experience is to going to a game in England. More specifically, going to an away game. I've been to plenty of top-flight games in England and Wales, but […]