The Heidenheim Chronicle
The terraces28 Jan 2036
The mood at Heidenheim has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad28 Jan 2036
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Hartmann
91 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Heidenheim lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match28 Jan 2036
Heidenheim are in real trouble now
Position 16, 12 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Match26 Jan 2036
The wait goes on for Heidenheim
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market28 Jan 2036
Rui Mendes puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Heidenheim, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Jan 2036
Julian Niehues in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Heidenheim this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Jan 2036
Words at Heidenheim training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jan Schöppner is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad28 Jan 2036
Patrick Mainka gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match26 Jan 2036
The goals have deserted Heidenheim
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Heidenheim can tell you which week it ends in.
In brief
- Match St. Pauli take the points off Heidenheim
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Youssoupha Niang
- Market The shop window has Danila Vedernikov in it