Mission Accomplished!

By: jhb | May 19th, 2009

Actually, my match preview for last weekend had the title “Let the crap continue”, but for whatever reason I never got round to posting it. Lucky me, because this weekend was pretty much the best you can hope for if your team is in serious relegation struggle: a) we won. With two goals to none, and never in any real danger. b) all direct opponents lost (save Karlsruhe, but that’s covered somewhere else. c) And how they lost! Mönchengladbach got 5 goals in Düsseldorf (read: Leverkusen), but behold! they are one goal better off now than before because d) Bielefeld aka the town that never existed lost by half a dozen goals in Dortmund! That’s Dortmund 6 Bielefeld 0! Listen and repeat: 6… 0…
A perfect Saturday, the only reason I didn’t write earlier was that I wasn’t as drunk on saturday as I felt you should be on an occasion like this. But before I don’t write at all, you get the sober version of the celebrations..
Bochum are safe and might already want to think about the summer transfer period, having as it were totally botched up last years transfers (Hashemian, one of two celebrated homecoming ~~queens~~ strikers, scored his first(!) this weekend, and Freier has also scored the incredible amount of a single goal over the season).

But the true reason, of course, why this actually means mission accomplished, is related to theoffside.com: I set out to save Bochum from relegation by blogging at the offside, leaving only three clubs without a representation here (that would be Karlsruhe, Cottbus, and Bielefeld), and now it turns out these three are relegation favourites this year! How’s that for a self-fulfilling prophecy I rest my case.
Which means now I can go on blogging without the pressure of my own promises. Oh wait, while I’m at it: how about next year it’s ~~UEFA cup~~Europa League time again for the VfL! As it usually is once in three years! (OK, OK, only if we manage to stay in the first flight for those three years or more in a row, which did not happen often after 1993). If I find some obvious reason for us to reach the international cups again next year as I did for relegation stop this year, I will frame next season’s entries under some general overachiever’s cliché theme.. maybe. In any case, all those fanatic Bochum fans out there (yep, I’m talking to all three of you!), let us celebrate the moment. Here’s to a season to forget!