Now, that the World Cup finally has arrived (And I like it so far – yes I do! Despite a sudden flag craze here in Germany. Are this the 60 years of pent-up national pride? I’m becoming scared.) it seems as if nobody in any German blog bothers writing about it. I don’t know if I just didn’t find anything interesting so far, but besides some short remarks and stuff also the Kaiser could tell you on the telly, there is nothing. Maybe it’s the media overkill killing all creative writing or something.

Ironically I found some really great stuff from the guys at the other side of the Atlantic, where actually – at least I thought it would be so – no one really cares about football or – as they tend to (falsely!) call it – soccer. Deaspin and The National Anthem Before A Cubs Game (That’s a long name.) deserve to be mentioned. I had much fun with their texts, especially with their sometimes weired and extremely funny US point of view.

And yeah, Fooligan is also great but, well, different. More German. With this often so boring typical German analysis of games. (No, it’s not that bad, Fooligan. Just somehow not so great.)

PS, I know the title is somehow risky, looking at the German team. We could be bad at both football and writing about it. Well, I’m still hoping the best.