Going Deutsch

In the 150th Blitz episode, Alex looks back at another good week of German football: Marco Richter seals a heroic comeback with a late goal as Hertha beat Augsburg 2-0, Freiburg go to top of the league against a Leverkusen side who still haven't got going this season, and Dortmund leap ahead of Bayern after the latter's 1-1 draw away at European side Union Berlin. In the Zweite, Braunschweig score...

Alex looks back at the latest from the world of German football: Bayern drop their first points of the season after an inspired performance from Yann Sommer to give Gladbach a point, Union produce the biggest attack against xG by losing the expected battle against Schalke whilst winning 6-1, and Bayer Leverkusen get up and running with a dominant first half against Mainz. Meanwhile, Kaiserslautern...

Alex looks back at an action packed week from Germany: Borussia Dortmund manage the impossible in blowing an 88th minute 2-0 lead against Werder Bremen to lose 3-2, Bayer Leverkusen continue their implosion by losing 3-0 at home to Hoffenheim, and Leipzig prove that they're unaware of the counter-attack in a 2-1 loss to Union Berlin. That all helps Bayern essentially secure the Bundesliga title fo...

Alex goes through the latest from the world of German football: Edin Terzić's subs work as Dortmund come back to beat Freiburg whilst Bayer Leverkusen lose their third straight game in a surprise loss to Augsburg, Paderborn go to the top of the 2. Bundesliga after a 1-0 win against Kaiserslautern, and Bielefeld remain pointless after defeat to Hamburg, whilst Elversberg smack another team for five...

Alex looks back at the best from the opening round of the Bundesliga, matchday 3 in the 2. Bundesliga, and matchday 2 in the 3. Liga: Bayern demolish Eintracht Frankfurt 6-1 in the opening game of the season, if only Frankfurt had been told it was a Europa League game, Kaiserslautern are the surprise packages of the 2. Bundesliga as they beat St. Pauli to go second, meanwhile worry grows around Gr...

Alex reviews the second matchday from the 2. Bundesliga, the first matchday from the 3. Liga, and the opening round of the DFB Pokal: Elversberg turn out to be the best team in Germany after storming to the top of the 3. Liga table thanks to a 5-1 win away at Essen, before beat Bayer Leverkusen 4-3 in the DFB Pokal, St. Pauli endure another tough opening round but use their 10-men to beat fourth t...

Alex looks back at the inaugural Tour de France Femmes and what made the race so fun to watch in its first ever week. There's reviews of all stages: including Lorena Wiebes winning the opening stage on the Champs-Élysées, Marianne Vos winning two stages to further mark her legacy, and Annemiek van Vleuten's two wins to make her the first ever winner of the maillot jaune in the race's history. Also...

Alex reviews the 2022 edition of the Tour de France in less depth than he wanted thanks to everything going wrong, except the racing itself in what might have been the best Tour in decades. Jonas Vingegaard is the new champion after doing the impossible in beating two-time champ Tadej Pogačar, Wout van Vert completely dominates in the green jersey competition, and Simon Geschke suffers late heartb...

Alex looks ahead to the 2022 Tour de France, and all the excitement that the next three weeks of racing will bring. Tadej Pogačar looks to win his third straight Tour whilst Primož Roglič, Jonas Vingegaard, and others look to stop him. We start in the most northly location in Tour history, as the race starts in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, before traveling back to France for some grueling sta...

Alex looks back at the 2021/22 2. Bundesliga season as Schalke and Werder Bremen made instant returns to the top-flight, whilst not finding the experience of the second tier an entirely straight forward affair, with the former doomed in March and the latter embroiled in scandal in November. Hamburg nearly put their late-season woes behind them before blowing promotion at home to Hertha, whilst St....

Alex looks back at the 2021/22 Bundesliga season: Bayern win their 10th title in a row as Dortmund stutter in a lot of vital games and sack Rose as a result. Leverkusen impress in the first season under Seoane and Leipzig make the Champions League. Freiburg, Union are Köln all surprise in getting into Europe, whilst Eintracht Frankfurt put a bad domestic season behind them by winning the Europa Le...

Alex goes back through the promotion/relegation games to the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga. Despite winning the first leg, HSV do a HSV a blow it as Hertha Berlin dominate the second leg to stay in the Bundesliga, meanwhile Dresden fans throw a temper tantrum using flares as Kaiserslautern take their place in the 2. Bundesliga following a 2-0 win away. Also on the pod: managerial changes in the top...

Alex looks back on the last round of fixtures in the Bundesliga, 2. Bundesliga and 3. Liga. Stuttgart survive on the last day after an injury time winner against Köln, whilst Hertha now have to go the play-offs after losing to Borussia Dortmund. Bielefeld are relegated and will be automatically be replaced by Werder after their win against Jahn Regensburg. Hamburger secure their spot in the play-o...

Alex looks back at the last two weeks of German football: with two rounds of the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga, as well as the quarter-finals of the DFB Pokal. Included in the episode: annoyance at Dortmund's draw against Augsburg is slightly tempered by Bayern drawing against Bayer, Union dominate and score the only goal in an inexplicable loss to Max Kruse's Wolfsburg, and exciting games in the Z...

On this week's Going Deutsch, Alex looks back at how Dortmund responded to a humiliating defeat to Rangers (spoiler: they responded quite well), how Leipzig opened the floodgates against ten man Hertha, and how Stuttgart blew their chance at a long awaited victory when playing Bochum. Also on the pod, European fiascos, nobody wanting to get promoted from the 2. Bundesliga and the suggestion of a p...

On the first episode of Going Deutsch, Bochum's four first half goals stun Bayern in a 4-2 win, Fürth get their second win in three against a hapless Hertha, and Wolfsburg make it two wins in a row by beating former manager Oliver Glasner and Eintracht Frankfurt. Also on the pod: Borussia Dortmund make a much needed improvement to the defence by signing Niklas Süle, Daniel-Kofi Kyereh returns for...

Alex goes through some of the biggest stories of the week (and one from two weeks ago) including Peng Shuai, Sergio Higuta's firing and reinstatement and Kevin Sinfield once again being an inspiration. The bulk of the podcast is dedicated to football as Bayern lose to Augsburg and become FC Hollywood once more, EFL officials screw up in the Hull Birmingham game, a 97th minute winner from past the...

The three Alexs of Woodward, Towells and Tant-Brown return to discuss the upcoming release of Football Manager 2022 and which teams you should play as, including an indie choice in Paris, a side not from Spain who play in the Spanish leagues and a university side from Wales. They formulate a combined 20 best teams whilst also presenting their 10 choices of their own from countries like Germany, Co...

The first episode of The Alternate Football Show sees Alex talk about the football he watched during the international break, including Plymouth at the top of League One, Harrogate's demolition of Scunthorpe, a seven goal thriller in Sutton, a six goal thriller between Mirandes and Eibar and a feisty derby between Real Oviedo and Sporting Gijon. There are better options than watching international...

In the final episode of Vive Le Tour for the 2021 Tour de France, Wout Van Aert can do everything, including stealing a fairytale ending off Mark Cavendish on the Champs-Élysées. The final six stages of the 2021 Tour are reviewed, Alex also looks at how Connor Swift did in those closing stages and gives out his awards for the 108th edition of the best bike race in the world. 

Alex is back to look at stages 11 through 15 on this year's Tour de France, Wout Van Aert laughs at the notion of sprinters not being able to climb as he summits Mont Ventoux twice on the way to stage victory. Nils Politt, Bauke Mollema and Sepp Kuss all have conclusive stage wins whilst Mark Cavendish wins his 34th stage to tie Eddy Merckx for most Tour de France stage wins ever. 

Alex is back to review stages 6 through 10 of the 2021 Tour de France, Tadej Pogačar all but wraps up the Tour win with some superb performances, Ben O'Connor impresses as the Tour finally arrives in Tignes two years late, but more important than anything else, Cavendish completes a sensational hat-trick to get up to 33 Tour de France stage wins. 

The Sports Blitz is back to look at Stages 1 to 5 of the 2021 Tour de France, including crashes, some caused by narrow roads, one caused by a sign, emotional moments with Alaphilippe and Van der Poel taking the yellow jersey, and even better for Alex, a Mark Cavendish win! 

Alex Woodward is joined by the Alexs of Tant-Brown and Towells, Josh and Harry to look through the biggest points from the world of soccer including Favre being sacked after a 5-1 defeat to Stuttgart, Liverpool and Spurs dropping points in the Premier League and Real winning El Derbi in Spain. Plus, a touching Huesca celebration, a debate about Arteta and a pitchside slid in Wolfsburg,  02:26...

Alex Woodward, Tant-Brown, Josh and Harry get together for a game of Jeopardy! to remember the late Alex Trebek, who passed away age 80. Our sports version of the show contains catagories about the Premier League, Spain, Artic Circle and lots of American sports. Also on the show, which sport Pocahontas plays according to one presenter, the best sports song of all time and which presenter cannot re...