OMG — Werder Bremen
Lost in translation - how Werder steal from England: everyone knows Football's Coming Home, the hymn of Euro 1996 by Baddiel, Skinner and The Lightning Seeds.
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Lost in translation - how Werder steal from England: everyone knows Football's Coming Home, the hymn of Euro 1996 by Baddiel, Skinner and The Lightning Seeds.
Lost in translation - how Werder steal from
Lost in translation - how Werder steal from England: everyone knows Football's Coming Home, the hymn of Euro 1996 by Baddiel, Skinner and The Lightning Seeds.
Lost in translation - how Werder steal from England: everyone knows Football's Coming Home, the hymn of Euro 1996 by Baddiel, Skinner and The Lightning Seeds. In Bremen, where things are often taken literally, the stadium DJs simply translated the song word for word into German. And they did not stop there. In 2016 Werder also went shopping in England for a slogan.
Copycat Werder Bremen: one song regularly played at
Copycat Werder Bremen: one song regularly played at the Weserstadion since the double season of 2003/04 is Football Comes Home, complete with The W on the shirt and The Meisterschale still gleaming in place of Jules Rimet.
Copycat Werder Bremen: one song regularly played at the Weserstadion since the double season of 2003/04 is Football Comes Home, complete with The W on the shirt and The Meisterschale still gleaming in place of Jules Rimet. Not even the Monkees' Daydream Believer was safe from Bremen's translators, becoming We Are Werder Bremen. With all due respect, that is something only for the true diehards. The same goes for the slogan This is Osterdeich, coined in 2016 as a north German answer to the untouchable This is Anfield.
Werder to cringe at: one of the club's
Werder to cringe at: one of the club's more embarrassing moments came after returning from Lisbon with the Cup Winners' Cup in 1992, when ZDF house re...
Werder to cringe at: one of the club's more embarrassing moments came after returning from Lisbon with the Cup Winners' Cup in 1992, when ZDF house reporter Rolf Toepperwien all but lost all composure at the airport and announced that Otto Rehhagel was now stepping onto German soil.
0:4 in Pasching: one of the biggest footballing
0:4 in Pasching: one of the biggest footballing embarrassments in Werder history fell into the very double season of 2003/04.
0:4 in Pasching: one of the biggest footballing embarrassments in Werder history fell into the very double season of 2003/04. On July 30, 2003, with almost the entire side that would soon become double winners, Werder were hammered 4:0 by Austrian no-name club SV Superfund Pasching in the UI Cup semifinal.
The slasher: Norbert Siegmann will not be remembered
The slasher: Norbert Siegmann will not be remembered in Werder history because of his goal in the 1981 promotion season, but because on August 14, 1981, in a Bundesliga home match against Arminia Bielefeld, he ripped open Ewald Lienen's thigh with his studs.
The slasher: Norbert Siegmann will not be remembered in Werder history because of his goal in the 1981 promotion season, but because on August 14, 1981, in a Bundesliga home match against Arminia Bielefeld, he ripped open Ewald Lienen's thigh with his studs. The 25-centimeter gash exposed the muscle sheath. Lienen accused Otto Rehhagel of having instructed Siegmann to play unfairly. The consequences were so dramatic that Rehhagel had to sit on the bench at the return match under police protection and in a bulletproof vest because of a death threat.
OMG — Update 2020–2026
The 2020 relegation playoff against Heidenheim belongs among the strangest moments in Bundesliga history.
The 2020 relegation playoff against Heidenheim belongs among
The 2020 relegation playoff against Heidenheim belongs among the strangest moments in Bundesliga history.
The 2020 relegation playoff against Heidenheim belongs among the strangest moments in Bundesliga history. First leg: 0–0. Second leg: 2–2 — with Heidenheim apparently scoring the promotion goal in stoppage time, only for VAR to rule it out for offside. Werder survived thanks to the away-goals rule. A year later, they went down anyway.
At the start of 2026, the “loan blunder”
At the start of 2026, the “loan blunder” triggered head-shaking across the football world.
At the start of 2026, the “loan blunder” triggered head-shaking across the football world. Werder sporting chief Clemens Fritz and Peter Niemeyer claimed in November and December 2025 that, because of FIFA and DFL regulations, no further loans were possible in the winter window. Only after a tip-off from transfermarkt.de did it emerge that this information was simply wrong. Fritz admitted that the correction came only after an outside hint — an embarrassment played down as a “communication misunderstanding,” but one that raised real questions about the competence of the sporting leadership. By April 2026, Fritz was still under pressure after 13 defeats in 27 matches.