End of Break

It’s over. The time of year most loathed by football fans, the winter break (closely followed by the summer break), is past us. In one of only three matches that were given the go-ahead by the FA in the Regionalliga Nord, Magdeburg travelled to league leaders Holstein Kiel. Kiel had created some consternation among followers [...]

Posted on February 23, 2009 at 2:24 pm by madcynic · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Cold Turkey

Since the beginning of the dreaded winterbreak I had not seen a full football match, neither on TV nor in a stadium. As I’m generally not that interested in indoor football, soccer addict’s methadone, there hasn’t been much to alleviate the withdrawal. But yesterday, finally, there was a friendly scheduled between 1. FC Magdeburg reserves [...]

Posted on January 10, 2009 at 2:15 pm by madcynic · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Winterbreak

It’s winterbreak in German football, and while training resumes on Jan 14, there are no transfer rumours at all to be found, at least none too reliable. I’m still hoping for a right defender and a central midfielder, but I guess it will come as surprising as on the team presentation in the summer when [...]

Posted on January 4, 2009 at 11:05 pm by madcynic · Permalink · Leave a comment
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