Holiday” my ass…

Wednesday, 26.4.2012, second leg of the Champions League semi-final, Bayern Munich had to travel to Madrid to defend a 2-1 lead from the first leg, if possible, in order to achieve the dream of every footballer, to reach the final of this gigantic competition, which will be played in Munich, of all places, making the…

Sloppy finish…

Champions League semi-final, Tuesday Bayern – Real, Wednesday Chelsea – Barcelona. It doesn’t get much better than this, which should make all the people in charge at Sky’s mouth water. Today it is important to advertise football, to advertise one’s own programme offer, today one wins new customers, if someone comes to a friend’s house…

Report highlights

1) A live bet Marcel Reif, the king of reporters, has of course not let himself be deprived of the treat of Schalke vs Dortmund as a live match. For a few minutes at the beginning of the game, he even manages to make the viewer believe that he could enjoy the game for once…

The Sky Annual General Meeting

I was lucky enough to receive a personal invitation to this year’s annual general meeting from Yvonne Carmen Andresen, a shareholder of Sky Deutschland AG. She certainly saw a great opportunity for this company to be successful in the long term with the help of the football broadcasting rights – as long as the quality…

Flood of goals

At this point it is constantly emphasised that goals in football are almost more important than the proverbial salt in the soup. Here the aspect is always brought to the fore that for the fan of a team this may be of secondary importance, for example solely because he would like to see goals in…

12-03-30

This week, there was once again the European Cup. The quarter-finals of the Champions League and Euroleague were on the agenda, with three German representatives. Here, too, Sky Deutschland had secured the broadcasting rights. They made use of this right, but, as on all other occasions of German football broadcasts, they did the usual anti-publicity…

The county league at the Champions League

Every friend of football had reason to look forward to a really great game on Wednesday evening. FC Barcelona was in action – and not only do you HAVE to look forward to it, you HAVE to watch it. Because this is modern circus, because this is the highest school, because it is art and…