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Jonathan Harding
1 year
Quietly a big fan of this move. One of the most consistent ball winners I have seen and low key one of the most reliable midfielders in the league.
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Fabrizio Romano
1 year
EXCLUSIVE: Liverpool submit formal bid to sign Japanese midfielder Wataru Endō on permanent deal 🚨🔴🇯🇵 #LFC Negotiations ongoing with Stuttgard — player wants the move as it’s biggest opportunity of his career. Surprisining move by Liverpool director Schmadtke.
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4 years
Ralph Hasenhüttl's tears are important for so many reasons, mainly because I think it shows a man so comfortable with himself that he is willing to be vulnerable and share the raw, genuine emotion he is feeling in that moment. A great thing, a rare thing, a magical thing to see.
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3 years
Leon Goretzka, after thanking the fans for their support in the Portugal game, with the quote of the day about the feeling of tournament football being back in Germany this summer: "It's nice to have 82 million head coaches again rather than 82 million virologists." #EURO2020
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5 years
Jürgen Klopp doesn’t have to win a trophy to win. In my opinion, nights like this prove he has already won, many times over.
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2 years
Füllkrug! What a story! What a moment! The number nine Germany has been waiting for.
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6 years
After two years of hard work, I'm delighted to announce that 'Mensch' will be coming soon. Thank you to everyone who helped, especially @OckleyBooks for giving me a chance to share these stories.
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Jonathan Harding
3 years
Do it anyway Munich. Go on.
@dw_sports
DW Sports
3 years
BREAKING UEFA has declined an application from Munich's city council to have Allianz Arena in rainbow colors for Germany's game against Hungary. #GERHUN #EURO2020
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4 months
From interim to permanent choice, Sabrina Wittmann (32) will lead third division side Ingolstadt into the new season. History continued for the woman who became the first female head coach in the men’s pro game in Germany when she took over as interim in May. Best of luck to her.
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4 months
Sabrina #Wittmann is our new head coach! 👊⚫️🔴
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2 years
Pretty big news if true. One of the biggest supermarkets in Germany and one of the DFB's biggest sponsors Rewe is reportedly ending their partnership with the DFB immediately because of the One Love armband situation.
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Jonas Leppin
2 years
Der Kölner Handelsriese Rewe beendet wegen der FIFA-Entscheidung zur «One-Love»-Armbinde ab sofort die Kooperation mit dem Deutschen Fußball-Bund. Gleich mehr @derspiegel
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5 years
Germany is not Bavaria.
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B/R Football
5 years
Jadon Sancho and Reiss Nelson have scored 18 goals between them in 2018/19—the most by English players in a single Bundesliga season ever 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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6 years
Panini sticker unveiling - Germany World Cup style!
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7 years
Rare that an athlete would speak so candidly about the negative effects of social media, particularly after winning the #SuperBowl . Brilliantly put from Nick Foles.
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3 years
A recent kicker interview with the German FA academy chief Tobias Haupt revealed some intriguing changes to the way Germany are developing their coaches. Here's a thread on them and my thoughts included.
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4 years
By the summer of 2022, Bayern will no longer have U9 and U10 teams as the club recognises the value of giving such young kids the chance to play many different sports. Entry will then be U11 - still a bit young I think - but a huge step forward.
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4 years
Jerome Boateng out there, in the rain, dropping passes like that is outrageous. Share your Messi memes if you want but don't forget Boateng is one of Germany's greatest ever defenders.
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6 years
Uli Hoeneß misses the core message of Mesut Özil's statement to focus on the sporting aspects which he then wrongly assess. Who'd have thought a rich, privileged white man with a criminal record living in Bavaria could get it so wrong?
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3 months
I think the reaction from Julian Nagelsmann this morning shows a Germany team transformed. The head coach fighting back the tears, the players leaving camp in tears, talk of the support being back and emotions being released. Euro 2024 was a success, a new era is truly underway.
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7 years
What a man. What a coach. Christian Streich says it best, again. I translated his thoughts on Neymar's transfer.
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4 years
Just do it already. Break away, enjoy being in an even more elite club together and then, in a decade, realise that actually there was something quite special to an FA Cup third round tie away at Nottingham Forest.
@SkySportsNews
Sky Sports News
4 years
BREAKING: Liverpool and Manchester United among top clubs in talks over bombshell plot to join new FIFA-backed 'European Premier League'
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7 years
Wolfsburg's women's team win the double but no party because the club is worried about men's team being relegated.
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4 years
Atalanta Bergamo winning the Champions League is the sports story we need this summer. For that city, for those fans, playing that kind of fun football - yes.
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3 years
Wrote an actual ode to Robin Gosens, #GER 's new hero at #EURO2020 . For @dw_sports :
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3 years
Manuel Neuer confirms #GER will show solidarity with #ENG and also kneel tomorrow. Both captains will wear rainbow armbands. Both teams will kneel. Step by step. #EURO2020
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Jonathan Harding
2 years
Lewandowski departure makes sense for both parties. He leaves as one of the all-time great Bayern and Bundesliga players with nothing left to win, and Nagelsmann gets the chance to make a real mark on his era by deciding the future of Bayern’s attack.
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2 years
Bundesliga 2-1 Germany.
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6 years
Some thoughts: - Bale’s goal is good enough to decide any game. - Real Madrid had an incredible amount of luck (across the whole tournament) to win this one. - Madrid don’t really make individual errors, though. - Salah is even more important than first thought #UCL
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Jonathan Harding
7 years
Huge night for Jerome Boateng. A black man born in Berlin captaining his country in the capital. Massive moment for man and country. #GERBRA
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4 years
Would definitely watch All or Nothing: Hertha Berlin.
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3 years
Good to see. Would like to see more men's team head coaches support their club's women's team.
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DW Sports
3 years
🌭⚽️ Dinner and a game? Julian Nagelsmann is at Bayern Munich's #UWCL game vs. Lyon.
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Jonathan Harding
3 years
This is horrendous on so many levels.
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Bayern & Germany
3 years
Bayern will face the German national team in a friendly game with the entire income from the match going to FCB as a compensation for Hansi Flick's departure. The game could take place this year [ @Koch_AZ ]
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2 years
Germany players warm up in training shirts with rainbow coloured sleeves and then cover their mouths with their hands for the team photo. A clear statement.
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Jonathan Harding
8 years
Never seen so many banners in the Süd. Protest time. "Whoever loves football, hates RB." "Beer is a passion, RB only a fashion." #bvbrbl
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Jonathan Harding
8 years
Podolski on the Loew video (majestically): "Nothing special. I think 80 percent of you and me have scratched our balls at some point."
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4 years
Put some respect on this Union Berlin team. Since they arrived in the Bundesliga, they have got it right in terms of coaching, recruitment and effort. Just impressed by the way the club is run.
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Jonathan Harding
4 years
Jude Bellingham playing well and full of chat too. Pretty sure I heard him just say: "You're soft as s***" to a Sevilla player.
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Jonathan Harding
2 years
Perhaps the most German introduction to Germany ever.
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Asif Burhan
2 years
"When you get an apartment, you don't get a kitchen! That's so strange. So I'm in the process of trying to get somebody around to fit me a kitchen, which I've never experienced before" @StanwayGeorgia on adapting to life in Germany ahead of @FCBfrauen 's first match of the season.
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Jonathan Harding
3 years
The most important piece of news today.
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Omar Jimenez
3 years
BREAKING: Derek Chauvin has been convicted on ALL charges in the killing of George Floyd. #DerekChauvin #GeorgeFloyd
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5 months
For anyone who has watched Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga this season, this European performance, particularly given the stage and the opponent, feels like a major catfish.
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Jonathan Harding
6 years
Thomas Müller now saying in interview with Spiegel there's no racism in sport. I mean really. You wait all this time to say something and then that's what you have to say? Goodness me. I wonder how @Kaepernick7 or @KPBofficial feel about that statement.
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Jonathan Harding
3 years
Gareth Southgate's use of language throughout has been superb. He is making conscious choices about what he says and regularly focuses on the perspective of others. Results are one thing but England are very lucky to have him as their manager, especially at this moment in time.
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Jonathan Harding
8 years
Pulisic's eyes were wide when he described how real the city of Dortmund's passion is for @BVB . A wonderful moment in the interview.
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Jonathan Harding
2 years
Hertha Berlin against Hamburg in this season’s relegation/promotion playoff you say? Two more chaotic, dramatic clubs could not meet in a more important game. Let the chaos derby begin.
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Jonathan Harding
3 years
Weak, and not the words of someone aware of their responsibilities in my opinion.
@dw_sports
DW Sports
3 years
Joshua Kimmich explains why he's not vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Jonathan Harding
3 months
To his credit, Nagelsmann recognises when it’s not working and reacts. Went with Can and Sané to start, it didn’t work, and swaps them for Andrich and Wirtz at halftime. Has a good sense of game flow and reacts quickly. Have always liked and respected that in a coach. A skill.
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Jonathan Harding
3 years
I understand loyalty, recognise the competitiveness of the position and respect Gareth Southgate is the coach. Jadon Sancho’s absence still remains inadequately explained, though. He was explosive down the stretch for BVB. To not feature at all is remarkable.
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Jonathan Harding
3 years
Flick and probably quite a few of the Bayern team watching this thinking, how are we not there?
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Jonathan Harding
5 months
Leverkusen. This season. Order the DVD review. Write the book. Start cutting the YouTube highlights. A truly remarkable campaign. A bonkers run full of late, late, late goals and breathtaking football. A team that just cannot, will not lose. Three more to immortality.
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Jonathan Harding
3 years
So much evidence of a broken game here. Game style at his age, coaches advising scouts to look at children this young, child playing 3/4 years up (he himself admits is hard), language and perception around his ‘ability’. No room to be a 4 year old. Mad.
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Jonathan Harding
3 years
Very proud to say that after nearly three years of work, Soul is finally ready to share. Hugely grateful to all those who made this possible, and of course to @OckleyBooks for another opportunity to do this work. I hope it resonates.
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Jonathan Harding
8 years
Great gesture. Darmstadt are offering free season tickets to those on low incomes. Club want watching the team live to be an option for all.
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Jonathan Harding
6 years
Özil never said there was racism in the team. How is this still being incorrectly analysed?
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Pascal Jochem
6 years
Löw: „Özil was a bit exaggerating when it comes to racism. There was never a single attempt of racism or anything similar in our team.“ #DFBTeam #l öw
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Jonathan Harding
2 years
The talk about Freiburg should be how amazing it is they qualified for the Europa League not what a shame it is they missed out on the Champions League.
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3 years
Robin Gosens thinks 40,000 fans in a stadium in a country where the COVID incidence is really high is borderline. Believes the whole situation is “everything but optimal.” #ENGGER #EURO2020
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Jonathan Harding
7 years
🇩🇪's new kit (from November). Inspired by the 90s. Like it, even without the colour (via @FunkeSport ).
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Jonathan Harding
3 years
High School Munich 3.
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Stefan Bienkowski
3 years
Julian Nagelsmann dressed for the occasion, if the occasion was a musical in an American high school…
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Jonathan Harding
2 years
Same story, different season. Bin the playoff. Three up, three down. 18-team league opens door to potentially huge quality gap but it’s time to start rewarding teams for a strong season rather than giving teams another chance after weak seasons.
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Jonathan Harding
5 years
A big week in Germany for potential reform at the youth football level. There is a revolution coming. A piece for @dw_sports on the approach that will change youth football in Germany.
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Jonathan Harding
6 years
Germany lose a friendly but: - They rarely play well in friendlies - Their tournament record is ok though - Marco Reus didn't get injured
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7 years
Outrageous and somewhat medieval quite frankly. Wolfsburg women one of the best teams in women's football. Club should rejoice in that.
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Jonathan Harding
6 years
Before it becomes a viral tweet, worth mentioning again that Germany didn’t go out in the group stage because they didn’t have Leroy Sane. #WorldCup
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Jonathan Harding
4 years
Think the biggest compliment you can pay Serge Gnabry is that the post Arjen Robben years at Bayern Munich are now just the Serge years.
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Jonathan Harding
4 years
Quick takes are terrible for all involved. Bellingham played well but it's one game. Give him time before rolling the hype train in. Clip of Havertz's wayward pass goes viral. Give him time before putting him out to dry. Give people more time. Stop expecting everything instantly.
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3 months
@Ankaman616 Or Jude just said:
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Jonathan Harding
8 years
That right there is exactly why you have a player like Dembele. Magical.
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Jonathan Harding
7 years
What a statement from BVB. Four days after the club is attacked, the stadium is full of signs supporting equality. Powerful.
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Jonathan Harding
4 years
Kimmich ending Kroos’ Germany career tonight.
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7 years
The sad truth is that the men wouldn't put potential title celebrations on ice if the women were in sporting trouble. Double standards.
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Jonathan Harding
2 years
After Mbappe laughed at the suggestion of not flying to an away game and Spain flew a ridiculously short distance for a recent international, I wondered how Bundesliga clubs travel on away days. Here's what I found out for @dw_sports :
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Jonathan Harding
3 years
Very grateful for the opportunity to work for this platform and with such a fine group of people.
@TheAthleticFC
The Athletic | Football
3 years
An all-star cast to provide Bundesliga & German football coverage on The Athletic... 🇩🇪 📋 Tactics: @jasmine_bh1 📝 Interviews & features: @JonBloggs66 & @ChrisMc_LII 🗣�� Big talking points: @KitHolden ⚽ Analysis: @SebSB For all our Bundesliga coverage... 👇
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Jonathan Harding
3 years
Bayern’s loss does not open up the title race, but it does give us a chance to appreciate Bochum. So let’s do that.
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Jonathan Harding
6 years
The absence of Leroy Sane had nothing to do with Germany not contesting or winning today. Deeper problems than having a winger who can dazzle (Draxler was fine).
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Jonathan Harding
3 years
Munich is lit up anyway. 🌈🌈🌈🌈 #EURO2020
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3 years
A #GER fan just ran onto the field during the Hungarian national anthem and held up a rainbow flag in front of the Hungary team. Cheers and applause from most of the crowd before swiftly being escorted off. #EURO2020
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Jonathan Harding
4 years
Delighted to say that Mensch the audio series is now here. In a 5-part series, I read the prologue and 4 select chapters before being interviewed about the work. Part 1: The Prologue is out today. Enjoy, and thank you for all the support.
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Jonathan Harding
8 years
Karius a good fit for #LFC . 22, but experienced (91 Bundesliga appearances) and ambitious. Great reflexes, distribution decent, works hard.
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Jonathan Harding
3 months
A tough way for it to end for Germany, but even though they’re out and some legendary players will depart, I think they’re also back. Performances have been positive and exciting, support has been restored and there are so many reasons to be optimistic about the future.
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Jonathan Harding
4 months
Marco Reus, a man whose career has been as a bridesmaid, next to Toni Kroos, a serial winner. The two faces of two very different careers, and yet both legends in their own way.
@TheAthleticFC
The Athletic | Football
4 months
The end of an era. #UCLfinal
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Jonathan Harding
4 years
I think Robert Lewandowski has reached the point where it's time to admit he is one of the greatest players ever. An Op-ed for @dw_sports :
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Jonathan Harding
2 months
Spain clearly deserved winners, but their victory also reemphasises just how close Germany were. Nagelsmann’s side definitely could have won that game and if so, perhaps it’s Germany who end up winning it all. Fine margins and all that, but no doubt that Germany are close again.
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Jonathan Harding
5 years
Spent the evening watching Urawa Red Diamonds play Kashima Antlers. Great support (from both sets of fans), exciting football (despite the humidity) and a real family feel to the experience. Unique. #wearereds #urawareds
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8 years
Some words that will resonate with most football fans, from a BVB fan group on Facebook about Mats Hummels.
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Jonathan Harding
6 years
Somewhere in a rural Munich suburb, scientists are working furiously to clone Jupp Heynckes in time for August.
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Jonathan Harding
3 years
Marco Reus opting out of #EURO2020 to rest his body after an intense year is some big 2021 energy. Priorities. I respect it hugely, especially given how well he is playing.
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Jonathan Harding
2 years
Germany paying the price for not ending a game they spent an hour in control of. Their defense was always going to be the problem. They needed to score two or three to hide it and having not done that, their weakness has been exposed.
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Jonathan Harding
5 years
Well done BBC.
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5 years
Jadon Sancho was asked after the game whether he could remember the last time he didn't score in a Bundesliga home game. Jadon: That's a hard one, I don't know. I can't remember. Not easy to remember given that it was FIVE months ago.
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Jonathan Harding
3 years
Pretty sure Tuchel just won manager of the month, but yeah, one loss to WBA and it's time to pull out the "this is the Premier League" narrative.
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Adam Crafton
3 years
Yessss Joe Cole: “This is a lesson to Tuchel: this isn’t the Bundesliga, this isn’t Ligue 1, this is the Premier League”
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3 years
Perhaps one of the very few players who spent most of his career genuinely being underrated. Played a key role for Bayern in that treble season and scored one of the greatest forgotten goals (2017 UCL final) ever. Ran hard, played hard, scored lots.
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Zach Lowy
3 years
Mario Mandžukić has retired from football at 35 years of age. What a career he's had, one of the most underrated forwards of the past decade.
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7 years
"I've got my A-Levels in the bag and now a pro contract at Leverkusen - it feels great," says Kai Havertz. Education then football. Love it.
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Jonathan Harding
4 years
The one and only thing I have enjoyed about ghost games is hearing the players. Really revealing. Mats Hummels in the first half: "Lads, our pressing is merely symbolic."
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Jonathan Harding
3 years
There are Bayern transfers and then there’s prime Marcel Sabitzer joining a midfield unit of Kimmich, Goretzka and Tolisso. Bonkers. They just keep getting better.
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Jonathan Harding
6 years
@GretaThunberg Incredible speech Greta! Strong words that the world needs to hear.
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Jonathan Harding
5 years
When Heung-min Son, Leroy Sané and Roberto Firmino left the Bundesliga I never thought they’d become the players they are today. Really, really impressive development.
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Jonathan Harding
3 years
Hope Dortmund have a plan for after this group because that time is coming soon. Bellingham, Haaland, Akanji now playing at level beyond this team. Reus and Hummels both 32. Trophy or not, window is closing.
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Jonathan Harding
3 years
Huge credit to Marco Reus. I thought he and his body looked done earlier in the season but the way he has come back and played in the last few weeks, and particularly tonight, is a credit to him as a person and a player. Fantastic.
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Jonathan Harding
2 years
Welcome to Germany’s training pitch for the World Cup in Qatar. A proper castle-like stadium located over 100km outside of Doha. No chance of anyone spying on this team’s tactical plans. Closed off and a long way away.
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