Beer And Honey

we'll have a look back at the top 11 players of the season so far and analyze the three cases of managerial sackings that happened in Mainz, Cologne and Berlin and look at what will happen in Dortmund, where BVB is looking to strengthen their coaching staff with former players Nuri Sahin and or Sven “Manni” Bender. We'll discuss whether Toni Kroos should return for the German national team and then we'll call it quits.

Bayern München without Kimmich and Goretzka came through 2-1 in Wolfsburg, putting former Bayern-coach Niko Kovac's job there in jeopardy after losing 5 of their last 7 matches. Number three in the standings is VfB Stuttgart the surprise team of the season so far, who beat Augsburg 3-0 and are playing one of the best campaigns in club history under Sebastian Hoeness's leadership.

We are sorry but Raphael “Honey” Honigstein is not available today and neither was a replacement, so all we have today is “beer” aka Christoph Biermann.

It was the 1-1 draw between Xabi Alonso's Leverkusen and the surprisingly successful side of the season Stuttgart on sunday. The game featured complex possession based football with creativity and power and ended in a fair draw.

In other international news, the groups for the coming European Championships in Germany were drawn and it really could've been much worse for Nagelsmann's squad who will face Scotland, Hungary and Switzerland in a group that they should really come through. Well, we've heard that before the World Cups in 2018 and 2022 and look how that went…

Filling in today to discuss the German teams in this week's Champions League action is Lars Pollmann, formerly of Bleacher Report, who is a specialist on all things black and yellow. What a great week to have him on board, since the BVB had a memorable away win at Milan's San Siro stadium featuring a soon to be 35 year old Mats Hummels in his best form. We'll discuss the other matches, too, but today Dortmund is getting the spotlight.

He went to see the duel of the Borussias in Dortmund which was easily the highlight game of the weekend, ending 4-2 for BVB, who went down 0-2 early thanks to Gladbach's strong start. It all fell apart for the foals due to some individual mistakes, some bad luck und some questionable officiating.

I hope you like FSV Mainz 05, one of the negative surprises this season, because we've invited author and blogger and podcaster Mara Pfeiffer to our show. She's a fan and an expert on all things Mainz.

Bayern, Dortmund, Union and Leipzig in action!

Dear listeners, everybody's talking about the German Classico: Bayern München vs. Borussia Dortmund. FCB just totally outclassed BVB in this one, winning 4:0, making it a tradition of easily beating their number one contender through the years. This one made headlines for the ongoings off the pitch, as well, with Thomas Tuchel's own matchup against Sky Germany's team of pundits and experts, led by Lothar Matthäus and Didi Hamann, the former Liverpool player.

Dear listeners, today's episode features a very special guest, Jonas Hummels, brother of Mats Hummels, who is Christoph's favorite pundit

We look back at Day 3 of the Champions League with Bayern München, Borussia Dortmund, RB Leipzig and Union Berlin in action.

Dear listeners, Mainz suspended striker Anwar El-Ghazi who had just recently joined the squad whereas Bayern Munich decided to leave Noussair Mazraoui with the team after a stern talking to and a statement by the club that left some disappointed. But the show must go on and Bayern don't have any depth at Mazraouis position.

Dear listeners, we're coming to you on a Sunday, because the German national team is on a trip to the US, where they met the US men's national team in Hartford, CT and will face Mexico in Philly on Tuesday. In yesterday's matchup with Greg Berhalter's team, Julian Nagelsmann got a fun 3-1 win in his debut as "Bundestrainer". It was just what the doctor ordered for Germany who are looking to build some momentum going forward towards the European Championships in 2024. But the events on the pitch where overshadowed by Julian Nagelsmann's fashion choice. In a weak attempt at cultural appropriation he dressed in a plaid flannel shirt. Maybe he was trying to blend in with the local lumberjacks? Enjoy!

in this weeks installment of your favorite football podcast, we'll have a look back at matchday 7 and a look ahead at the German national team's upcoming trip to the USA.

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Contenders Leipzig and Bayern drew 2-2 after Tuchel dumbed down his tactical approach after falling behind 2-0 in the first half at Leipzig. Prior to this matchup, Red Bull director Oliver Mintzlaff fired Max Eberl for not being committed enough to the Red Bull philosophy and not spending enough time in Leipzig, thus making Eberl's return to his youth club Bayern München more and more likely. A career move that many have expected Eberl to make sooner or later.

Harry Kane looks like he's always been scoring in a Bayern jersey, Stuttgart's Serhou Guirassy looks like he's worth 100 million Euros and first-time Champions League participant Union Berlin are in their first slump of the decade. Raphael and Christoph are here to give you some much needed context.

This is merely a teaser. The whole episode is reserved for our Supporters and Ultras.

We've got Leverkusen vs. Bayern, Freiburg vs. BVB, Heidenheim's first Bundesliga victory ever and all the ohter matchups from week 4!

Hansi Flick got the boot after the German national team got embarrassed by Japan, losing 1-4 at home. Then interim German FA sports director and legend of German football, Rudi Völler, swooped in as a replacement coach for one game only - and they beat France 2-1.

Of course the focus is on two losers of the deadline day, Frankfurt and Bayern. Frankfurt are very rich losers, who decided to let go of Kolo Muani for somewhere north of 90 million Euros, even after the german transfer window had closed on friday, meaning they'll have to wait till january to sign a replacement with all that cash. The other deadline losers are Bayern München, who failed to sign Palhinha from Fulham and a replacement for Benjamin Pavard, simply because they ran out of time. Unprofessional much?

We'll take a look at what's in store for the German clubs in the Champions League!

He joined us to give a rather gloomy perspective on a Dortmund side that's just not been right, since Klopp left many moons ago.

the new season in Germany's top flight Erste Bundesliga has kicked off with some spectacular scoring. 34 goals in 9 matches!

at the eve of the new Bundesliga season, traditionally German football kicks off with the DFB Pokal first round where upsets are the rule and teams from lower leagues can kick out Bundesliga teams. This year, Augsburg, Bremen and Christoph's VfL Bochum were the victims.

The German Cup competitions kick off the coming season this weekend with champions Bayern München and DFB-Pokal winners Leipzig playing for the Super Cup on Saturday evening, while the first round of DFB-Pokal takes place spread out over the weekend.

Our special guest is once again Ronnie Reng, journalist and author of some of the best football books in Germany and die hard Eintracht Frankfurt supporter. He'll provide insights on local rival and newly promoted SV Darmstadt 98, heavy favorites to get relegated right back down to the second Bundesliga. Then we'll take a thorough look at the top, where Raphael's Bayern München are looking to secure the services of Harry Kane to fill the void in the opponent's box, that has been open since Lewandowski left. Will coach Tuchel be able to rally the troops this year to ward off Dortmund and Leipzig another time? Will he be able to count on Leon Goretzka? We have all the answers, right here at Beer 'n' Honey. Enjoy!

Sports writer Günther Klein from Munich-based daily paper Münchner Merkur, who knows about what's going on at the lesser Bavarian team, FC Augsburg and a real star of the German football scene, Arnd Zeigler, stadium announcer for Werder Bremen, host of a TV show that deals with the funny side of football with fails and bloopers and such and a radio host and fellow podcaster. As a bonus we get to hear his little daughter in the background, who he picked up from kindergarten before joining us.

He's joining us from his holidays in southern Italy to discuss his favorite team Schalke as well as Bayer Leverkusen, a team he covers professionally. A word of warning, the cicadas outside of his apartment are putting on one hell of a show...

He also does a podcast on the so-called foals called "Fohlenfutter". He'll try to make sense of the comings and goings amid Gladbach's huge rebuilding effort, which saw almost all of their key attacking players leave with french striker Marcus Thuram, captain Lars Stindl, German national player Jonas Hofmann as well as Algerian left back Ramy Bensebaini.

tune in to today's episode with special guest Uli Hesse, acclaimed sports writer and veteran BVB Dortmund superfan, who will give us a detailed look into the depths of the soul of a fan who watched his club fumble the championship on the last day of the season.

Our featured guest today is Mara Pfeiffer, an author and journalist/blogger/podcast host and firstly, an expert on all things related to Mainz 05. She will tell us all about the little club that brought you Jürgen Klopp and Thomas Tuchel.

Germany in panic mode!

Reng will help us review Eintracht Frankfurt's wild ride of a season in his capacity as an avid Eintracht supporter. Then Christoph will review Köln's season, since he lived there for over 20 years, which automatically makes him an expert on all things related to the "Effzeh" from Cologne.

We'll start with a "best of the rest" lineup, a team of the season without players from Bayern or BVB and only one player from any team.

regular season play is over but the season isn't quite done until we know who won the German FA Cup, the DFB Pokal, and whether the third from the bottom of the first Bundesliga can stay up or if the third best team of the second Bundesliga can make it to the top flight.

in a season finale for the ages, beloved underdogs Dortmund crapped the bed at home against Mainz, while Bayern couldn't believe that they won their eleventh Bundesliga title in a row.

Dear listener, in what is turning out to be one of the crazier seasons in recent Bundesliga history, the BVB is back in first place with one more game to play.

Dear listeners, Raphael was at the BayArena to witness Xabi Alonso's side take 23 shots on goal and strike the bar once. In the end, Roma made use of every trick in the book to hold on, like delaying the game with fake injuries and interrupting the flow of the game at every chance.

A matchday where both FC Bayern and Borussia Dortmund looked convincing in their lopsided wins vs. Schalke and Gladbach respectively.

Dear listeners, in this special edition, Christoph and Raphael look back at Xabi Alonso's Leverkusen's away match against Jose Mourinho's AS Roma at the legendary Stadio Olimpico (where Germany won the World Cup finals in 1990).

The race for number one has the BVB trailing Bayern by one point. RB Leipzig beat Freiburg and leapfrogged them and Union in the standings, while playing like a top 3 team.

The most suspenseful title race in recent memory has left Raphael and Christoph wondering whether Dortmund are too dumb to win the Bundesliga championship.

BVB has taken the lead after another disastrous effort bei Tuchel's Bayern who went down 3-1 in Mainz against the second best team of the second half of the season. Meanwhile Dortmund took their chance and won their match with struggling Eintracht Frankfurt 4-0, who have fallen to 9th place. So Frankfurt can probably say bye-bye to their hopes of qualifying for the European Cup competition.

Former star midfielder Xabi Alonso has turned Bayer Leverkusen into one of the most interesting and fun to watch teams in the Bundesliga.

Dear listeners, today Raphael and Christoph have to discuss who wants it less between Bayern and Dortmund, who both messed up their games this weekend. The BVB were up two goals and one man but managed to give up 3 goals to lowly Stuttgart and end it in a 3-3 draw, while Bayern stumbled against lowly Hoffenheim and also drew the game 1-1.

On Tuesday he had to witness his Bayern fall 3-0 to Pep and the Citizens. Christoph was sensitive enough not to gloat too much, in contrast to the German Twittersphere where Bayern and especially Upamecano and Sommer where ridiculed.

This week we take a look back at all the Bundesliga action from the Easter Weekend and take a look ahead towards Bayern's Champions League matchup with Pep and the Citizens (great band name, by the way).

Christoph and Raphael will focus on the "German Classico" as well as the relegation struggle which is still very close for the five bottom dwellers of the Bundesliga.

Dear Listeners, dear Supporters and Ultras, in this special edition of Beer & Honey, FC St. Pauli CEO Oke Goettlich tries to explain the German rule called "50+1", which keeps investors from seizing control over German football clubs, which are member led entitites.