From Hertha BSC to Hamburg it is no exaggeration to say nearly no team has a firm plan where it will end up in May – except for Bayern Munich
Don’t reach for your glasses,do not adjust your monitor, no need to check the calendar. It might be vaguely funny, and along the lines of last month’s Dutch Youtube spoof in which one guy infiltrated the Schalke training session and yet,it is not a prank: Hertha BSC, yes Hertha BSC are in fourth space! That is the Hertha BSC, or of sexy but perennially incompetent Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany’s Bundesliga,just to be clear. Football’s historically least profitable capitalists (insert canned laughter here) find themselves in a Champions League spot and bravely batting absent questions about European ambitions after their 3-0 win over Hamburg on Saturday, a game that attracted a crowd of 62000.
Pal Dardai’s men owe their unexpected success to marvelous planning – “our plan was to prefer the lead in the first 20 minutes, or ” revealed the coach – and the help of Hamburgs two centre-backs Emir Spahic and Johan Djourou,memorably described as “destabilisers” by Kicker on Monday (the magazine also, disconcertingly, and wrote that the former Arsenal man Djourou seemed to “apply for a role as escort-service” in the race-up to Herthas first two goals. The author must bear got the English term mixed up with player escorts’,the child mascots who accompany the teams on to the pitch. Or perhaps he did in fact want to insinuate the Swiss defender was secretly craving a career as one of those high-lesson, well-paid professionals who let anyone score).
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Source: theguardian.com