What is the story about?
Story time: I was supposed to be in Europe this week. My friend Josh and I had planned a football-themed trip wherein we would go to a Dortmund match (Augsburg), pick whatever Champions League games were available (we probably would have tried for Sporting and Barcelona) and then go to a Premier League match this weekend. But then Josh BAILED ON ME (for justifiable reasons), so I got to watch on my couch as Barca and Newcastle played a barnburner and Sporting came back from a 3-0 deficit. Go figure.
Borussia Dortmund News
- A week after scoring his first Bundesliga goal, Luca Reggiani has been rewarded with his first Bundesliga pay-raise.
- The Borussia Dortmund Frauen need Cologne II to drop points if they’re going to earn promotion to the 2. Bundesliga. They will have a big chance this weekend when Cologne face Arminia Bielefeld, the team in third place in the Regionalliga West.
- I don’t know if there are any Jeopardy! fans in the audience, but shout-out to this absolute GOAT for repping the Black and Yellow:
Other Football News
- There are plenty of contenders around the world for Biggest Ongoing Clownshow, but the situation in AFCON is up there with the heavyweights. It turns out that Yogi Berra was wrong and even when it’s over, it isn’t over.
