

Team News
Bochumers score to put underdogs to the World Cup
By: jhb |My oh my, why don’t they manage this back home, err, in their club? See below for the video evidence that both striker Zlatko Dedic and defender Antar Yahia (which in english commentary seems to sound like Yaya, in german more like Yaheeya, and in the video below I can’t even make out whether he [...]
And you thought it’d never happen
By: jhb |.. but the VfL has eventually announced a new coach. (or was it “..but the Bochum offside is posting again”). Today, Heiko Herrlich has been appointed as new head coach, coming along is his assistant Iraklis Metaxas (who is already causing my keyboard some headache).
We did it
By: jhb |Nürnberg 0-1 Bochum! Against all odds, we go home with all points and without conceding a goal. I haven’t seen the match, but apparently Nürnberg refused to play football, which might have helped us a lot. It doen’t lessen the sweet taste of victory, though, and in particular the timing is perfect. The first proper [...]
More rumours
By: jhb |Two more names I’ve heard linked to the VfL on some forum or other: Jörn Andersen and Wolfgang Wolf. Both are a) mostly unknown and b) mostly unsuccessful. (and c) mostly harmless). Maybe we’re indeed looking toward Heinemann as permanent solution? I doubt it, let’s see what the week will tell.
Quick Link
By: jhb |Make sure to visit Luka over at the Assyriska offside, he has fantastic example of a shit-lookalike of our prospective new coach.
Predicting the obvious: Koller fired
By: jhb |That’s that, then. Marcel Koller has been fired yesterday afternoon, with a statement crediting him for keeping us in the top flight 4 years in a row (unseen since 1993); in the end not being able to come to terms with a team that had lost its trust in the head coach cost him the [...]
Catching up matchdays 1-5: no rejoicing
By: jhb |The start of the season was pretty much the usual affair of “uh, is it started yet?” sleepiness of all our players in the DFB cup and the first half of the first match. I don’t know what kind of lemons they serve in the Ruhrstadion locker rooms, but the second half of that match [...]
We’re back, Mk. II
By: jhb |Increasingly boring headlines means increasingly entertaining football by my beloved VfL! On saturday, driving back from a friend’s wedding, sleep deprived and just in the mood for a rainy Bundesliga sunday on the car stereo, I listened to a season starter v Mönchengladbach that even put the usual bleakness of your typical Bochum start-of-the-season to [...]
We’re back!
By: jhb |I apologize for not writing earlier, but work has gotten the better of me lately. Luckily, all the important deadlines fell into the summer break, and just in time for the new season I’m up and running the Bochum Offside again. So what did we miss? Not much, in terms of transfers all news are [...]
Oh. my. god.
By: jhb |The shirts posted earlier were apparently the training outfit, used only and solely for that purpose. The true kit had to be a little more exciting than that, dontcherknow!?






