Round of 16 second leg in the Champions League season 2009/2010 As unseemly as it may be: I am telling about this match in the first person. As much as this may make it lacking in objectivity. I set out to refute this judgement in the course of the text. Bayern won the first leg…
This match took place in the Champions League group stage of the 2010/2011 season on the evening of 3 November 2010. The match was selected by the author as a live match from the Sky offer for 90-minute, i.e. complete, observation, including commentary. There were some good reasons for this:If there is a following at…
On the coverage of SKY, the broadcaster with exclusive rights to the German Bundesliga, the Champions League and the Euroleague: They once acquired the mining rights for a gold well. They made a find. In fact, they found heaps of gold! Now they thought about what to do with the gold? After a lot of…
Fair play is really a beautiful word. Especially since it’s English. And the idea behind it! Really great. But may I ask where this still exists in today’s football? I would like to pick out a particular game situation and look at it in the mirror of time and how fair play has not only…
A few essential words just today, on Monday, 8 November 2010, about Werder Bremen, who are now being talked into a crisis – an effect that can occasionally actually be achieved by “talking them into it”. All one can really say about this crisis talk is that in Germany the only criterion for measuring the…
The one big topic of conversation these days are the unrolled posters with hate messages, which almost caused matches to be abandoned here and there. Of course, all this is no coincidence and the continuation of the story, since it is “the big topic”, also has its understandable causes. It’s just that you have to…
One should always bear in mind that the really big manipulations only became conceivable because there was a growing betting market on which very large bets could gradually be made, which could also be interesting for “big investors”. One could almost say that wherever very large amounts are staked, fraudsters are almost automatically attracted who…
From the point of view of a professional player, it is worthwhile to say a few enlightening words about the entire betting scandal, starting with the manipulations around referee Robert Hoyzer that were uncovered in January 2005. Certainly, the whole story is highly complex and offers starting points from many perspectives to tackle the problem.…
On the one hand, it is virtually a matter of course that I have to talk about it at some point. On the other hand, it is also the case that one has to be extremely careful with any form of accusation as well as we talk about “cheating”. So I have to keep myself…
1) Introduction Once again I may quote this sentence here, and here it does have a special meaning: “Whoever wants to bet, also wants to cheat.” Originally, I maintain my opinion that the quotation originates from the fact that in the dim and distant past, a betting offer came about like this: “There are 400,000…
