DISQUS

diana · 11 months ago

At first I thought the laptop I am using has a mark on the screen when I was looking at Cottbus's average number of goals per game. I then realised it is not. If there is just a ranking for the number of goals scored so far for this season in the Bundesliga, then Cottbus will be ranked last and Hoffenheim will still be in the top spot (just like they are now at the half-way mark in the league standings).

There is the so-called 'second season syndrome' in football. Cottbus being promoted in the previous season and survived. But now, I have a very bad feeling they might go down in this season. Unless they do something about it.

Jogi · 11 months ago

Correct me if I´m wrong but doesn´t the 3year cycle mentioned above indicate that Cottbus is already positively past the second season syndrome??

"Somehow just having an old (non-Berlin) East German team in the topflight doesn’t feel right."

Why would that be?

diana · 11 months ago

I got mixed up over there. Sorry!

Mark · 11 months ago

My statement about East German teams in the topflight is probably some of that subdued bitterness I have from seeing Nuremberg relegated last season bubbling to the surface. I think it just came out because FCN ended last season at 16th, and that's where Cottbus happen to find themselves at the moment.

Am I willing to accept that der Club is 80 years past its prime? Not yet.