http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:40:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/11/22/schalke-can-prove-their-potential-in-the-champions-league-if-huntelaar-stays/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/11/22/schalke-can-prove-their-potential-in-the-champions-league-if-huntelaar-stays/#comments Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:55:00 +0000 Kit Holden http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=30131 Rarely has the Ruhr been seen as a haven of creativity and artistry. Only on the football field can Germany's industrial strongholds ever enchant the watching world with aesthetic excellence. But boy how they can.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/11/22/schalke-can-prove-their-potential-in-the-champions-league-if-huntelaar-stays/feed/ 4 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/14/integrations-spieltag-tackling-homophobia-the-last-taboo-in-football/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/14/integrations-spieltag-tackling-homophobia-the-last-taboo-in-football/#comments Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:40:26 +0000 Kit Holden http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=28418 The shirts of Germany's top flight players will this weekend be adorned with a unanimous slogan: "Geh deinen Weg" ("Go your own way") as part of the weekly Integrations-Spieltag (Integration Matchday). The message of integration is primarily in support of young members of the immigrant community but following an interview with an anonymous gay footballer in the German magazine "Fluter", it is the homophobia debate which has begun to take centre stage.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/14/integrations-spieltag-tackling-homophobia-the-last-taboo-in-football/feed/ 71 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/01/03/scandal-surprise-and-soap-opera-a-year-of-the-bundesliga/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/01/03/scandal-surprise-and-soap-opera-a-year-of-the-bundesliga/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:18:03 +0000 Kit Holden http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=20068 With 2011 now over, followers of the Bundesliga are looking back on what has been a year full of scandal, surprise and soap opera. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/01/03/scandal-surprise-and-soap-opera-a-year-of-the-bundesliga/feed/ 1