Poor Michael Rensing. Alone, abandoned, faced with an onslaught of yellow players, bravely
keeping the scoreline down to five. The only Cologne player who cared to show up on Saturday.
Scenes from a goalkeeper's worst nightmare, or wet dream, depending on where you rate him on the
Mad German Goalkeeper™ scale of one to ten.
Poor Michael Rensing. Alone, abandoned, faced with an onslaught of yellow players, bravely
keeping the scoreline down to five. The only Cologne player who cared to show up on Saturday.
Scenes from a goalkeeper's worst nightmare, or wet dream, depending on where you rate him on the
Mad German Goalkeeper™ scale of one to ten.
Dieter Hecking had. Nuremberg won, played well and found their rhythm despite losing all their
best players in the summer. Cologne lost, played badly and still haven't found their rhythm despite
keeping all their best players.
And so Arsenal's pre-season continues tomorrow with with a pre-season match-up with FC Cologne
(or Koln for the German speaking fans). Arsenal have been training in Germany and this game will
single the end to "phase one' of their pre-season training.
Now the reason why Arsenal are playing a friendly versus Cologne is not evident as we have had
virtually no dealing with the club in the past.
English speaking BVB fans are on cloud nine. Their German speaking counterparts are on cloud
seven. But maybe there's a way to bring the two together for the big party on May 14th. Roman
Weidenfeller will volunteer as a translator. A 2-0 victory over Nuremberg clinched Dortmund's
seventh German championship and the first title after nine years, thanks to Leverkusen doing, what
Leverkusen does best.
MUNCIH, Germany — Bayern Munich's title aspirations suffered a major blow on Saturday as
relegation-threatened Cologne hit back from 2-0 down to inflict a 3-2 defeat on the defending
champions. Bayern were cruising after first-half goals by Germany striker Mario Gomez, his 16th in
19 league matches, and Turkey midfielder Hamit Altintop.
