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This US government is colluding with our HARD RIGHT in undermining democracy - and vice versa. It’s becoming a full blown attack quickly now.

Heidenheim-Bochum, 0:0. Heidenheim likely to end up in the Relegation (playoff.) Difficult to imagine them getting better than 16th. Bochum slide closer to demotion. Have to beat both Mainz (h) & St Pauli (a) in their final 2 games to have even a chance of staying up.

Surely only in the 2. Bundesliga could relegation threatened MĂźnster be leading 5:0 away to promotion chasing Magdeburg. VerrĂźckteste Liga aller Zeiten!

Bayern sporting director Christoph Freund has confirmed Eric Dier will leave the club & Monaco is his likely next destination. #FCB

Big political news this morning. The Bundesamt fĂźr Verfassungsschutz (Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution) has deemed the entire AfD Party to be an extreme right wing party and that its positions on ethnicity & descent are incompatible with democracy.

Thanks to Ryan Tolmich for the interest. Long interview here addressing a number of Bundesliga & commentary career topics. www.goal.com/en-us/lists/...

Kicker Friday instead of Thursday due to the Tag der Arbeit holiday. “Duel at the precipice.” “In Heidenheim, the threat is there for Bochum to crash out of the Bundesliga.”

May Day holiday in Germany today - Tag der Arbeit - Labour Day, traditionally a day for celebrating workers‘ rights. Not a holiday in the USA but protests against the Trump regime are scheduled in many locations. www.npr.org/2025/04/30/n...

Leverkusen have signed 19 year old midfield talent Ibrahim Maza from Hertha, by triggering a 12 million Euro clause in his contract. Maza, a proficient dribbler is 2-footed & has worked on the defensive side of his game. #B04 #Bayer04

Does anyone watch these Trump & his acolytes sitting on a couch flattering his massive ego sessions, interspersed with comical planted questions & not think this is North Korea or the Soviet Union or Pinochet or name your authoritarian regime? It’s so badly done too, it should make everyone puke.

Topspiel on Saturday for anyone who would like to join us on the world feed. #BVBWOB

As expected, Borussia Dortmund have promoted Mike Tullberg internally to the post of coach of BVB II, the U23 team, who play in the 3. Liga. Tullberg has a track record with the club‘s U19s & was interim coach for the first team earlier this year before Niko Kovac stepped in. #BVB

Antonio RĂźdiger will miss the Nations League tournament with Germany in June due to a partial meniscus tear.

Canada has a worldly Prime Minister, acknowledged as an expert in international finance. The USA has an oafish fascist with orange make up & ridiculous yellow hair who a % of the population regards as a god despite a limited vocabulary. The contrast between the 2 countries couldn’t be more stark.

Talking to a Canadian colleague who just voted & looking forward to watching the Canadian election on all levels: Sane coverage, articulate speakers & hopefully a message to the wider world that far right politics can get in the bin. 🇨🇦

This Saturday I’ll be on the Bundesliga world feed for Borussia Dortmund-Wolfsburg which is the late game (Topspiel.) Bayern‘s game in Leipzig (win needed to arithmetically clinch the title) is among the earlier kick offs.

St. Pauli & Australia captain Jackson Irvine will undergo a left foot operation & will be out for several months.

3 days in a row coming up in the recording studio. No, I’m not singing back up vocals for Jeff Lynne in the Over & Out tour :)

First look at the cover of the Monday edition of Kicker with the main headline “The league quakes!” “Thrills guaranteed in the race for Europe & in the relegation battle.”

Just a prediction but won’t be surprised if Dortmund are not in the top 4 until the very last day of the season when the music stops. Has that sort of feel.

After beating Freiburg 3:1, Bayern’s women are champions of the Frauen-Bundesliga for the sixth time.

KĂśln & Hamburg both lost increasing the tension going into the last 3 games. Kaiserslautern won to keep them in the running.

With only 3 games left in the 2. Bundesliga, relegation threatened Preussen MĂźnster & long time coach Sascha Hildmann have gone their separate ways. Hildmann had been at the helm for 5 years & oversaw promotion last season. MĂźnster hope a new face will bring a new impulse as they try to stay up.

It might well be an astonishingly dramatic last day in the 2. Bundesliga on 18 May when you consider how many teams are in the promotion running. Kaiserslautern can join the throng on 49 points if they beat Schalke on Sunday afternoon.

Seeing in a few places Bayern need just a point in Leipzig to win the title. While that’s effectively true due to superior goal difference, the league won’t consider it secured until it’s arithmetically over. So a win in Leipzig needed or a draw & then a Leverkusen slip up in Freiburg following day.

Fairly routine for Bayern but no title clinch. Chance to do it next week in Leipzig but will have to do it minus suspended Kane. Thanks as ever if you watched on the world feed.

Hoffenheim suddenly nervous if you look at the fixtures. Can see a way for Heidenheim to finish above them. Hard set of matches for die TSG.

Heidenheim hat vielleicht ein Beispiel nach Bielefeld hingeschickt, wie man gegen Stuttgart beim Finale agieren soll. UnmĂśglich zu gewinnen ist es nicht.

If anyone is unaware of the crowd factor in the 2. Bundesliga, more than 62,000 are at Hertha-Magdeburg in Berlin tonight with 15,000 in the away section.

Borussia Mönchengladbach are the latest German club to leave Twitter. Gladbach say the platform doesn’t represent their values, citing the owner‘s influencing of the algorithm & the promotion of hate, violence & conspiracy theories. The club is assessing alternatives for keeping fans informed. #BMG

Don’t forget if you’re in the USA @kaylmurray.bsky.social brings you coverage of the Bundesliga on ESPN+ starting at 9am ET on Saturday. Patrick Owomoyela with me for commentary on Bayern-Mainz live from the Allianz Arena. Will it be title day for Bayern?

Matchday 31 will get underway in a few hours so here’s another shout for my ESPN Bundesliga column. The crazy race for Europe! Good look guessing who’ll make it. www.espn.com/soccer/story...

May might be my fave month in Germany. Schedule already busy with last few weeks (Endspurt) in the Bundesliga, last day in the 2. Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal Final for ESPN & the teeth chattering Relegation (playoff). Also some EAFC studio recording days. Promise some day to take on less work :)

Sky DE reporting Julian Nagelsmann has been in touch with Dutchman Alfred Schreuder as possible successor to Sandro Wagner. Schreuder worked with Nagelsmann at Hoffenheim & then independently as head coach of the Kraichgau club before Brügge & Ajax. He’s currently in the UAE with Al Nasr. #DFBTeam