Tag: Bundesliga
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Ask The Ref: Q&A Week 3
Hi, from me, Dermot Gallagher, and welcome to another week’s football, albeit through my blog and with the aid of your questions. With football returning in The Bundesliga last weekend, what better place to start. Although the round of fixtures did not overwork the VAR it certainly reminded one reader of a few incidents in […]
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Football | Why are the Premier League introducing a winter break?
The Premier League fixtures will be coming thin and slowly over the next fortnight or so as the league’s inaugural winter break takes effect. Instead of welcoming seven or eight fixtures last weekend, we were meant to have been treated to just four. Then Storm Ciara kicked in and deprived us of Sunday’s late kick-off […]
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How does the German football league system work?
The German football league pyramid is one of the most expansive and competitive league systems in world football. The series of interconnected leagues are run in a hierarchical system with promotion and relegation in place across every division. Much like in the English football leagues, it is this lingering threat of relegation and the tantalising […]