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Beer & Honey is your #1 English language weekly podcast on the German Bundesliga and football in Germany with experts Christoph Biermann and Raphael Honigstein.
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Welcome to the wonderful world of German football! Where beer and honey flow, we, Christoph Biermann and Raphael Honigstein, bring you up to speed every week. We give you the most important news from the Bundesliga, about the German national team (formerly known as “Die Mannschaft”) and everything else you need to know. In addition, we conduct exclusive interviews with players, managers and experts.
Christoph Biermann (Beer) lives in Berlin and has been writing about football for almost four decades, from World Cup finals and lower leagues alike. He has worked for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Spiegel, today he is a reporter for the football magazine 11 FREUNDE. He has written more than a dozen award-winning books, "Football Hackers" has also been published in English. He loves VfL Bochum and therefore, not surprisingly, all outsiders and underdogs.
Raphael Honigstein (Honey) was born in Munich but has lived in London for almost three decades. He has written for many major newspapers in Germany and England and is now a Senior Writer at the The Athletic. He is also a television pundit on BT Sport and Sky in Germany. He has written several books and his biography of Jürgen Klopp has been published in 2387 countries. He’s got a thing for FC Bayern and beautiful football.
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Time To Say Goodbye
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.
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Leverkusen On Top Heading Into The Winter Break
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. -
All Beer, No Honey
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.
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A Sermon For The Meek And Feeble
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.
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We Are The World Champions!
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…
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Champions League Day 5 Review Teaser
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.