Personae Non Gratae — Hertha BSC
Michael Skibbe: the man from Gelsenkirchen was allowed just five competitive games on Hertha’s bench.
The Unwanted
Michael Skibbe: the man from Gelsenkirchen was allowed
Michael Skibbe: the man from Gelsenkirchen was allowed just five competitive games on Hertha’s bench.
just five competitive games on Hertha’s bench. He arrived in December 2011 and was gone again by February 2012. Zero points was his crushing record. Skibbe later called it ‘a disaster, the absolute low point of my coaching career.’
Uwe Rahn: the Mannheim-born forward came to Berlin
Uwe Rahn: the Mannheim-born forward came to Berlin in 1990 as a major hope.
in 1990 as a major hope. But the once highly praised striker never lived up to expectations at Hertha. In 21 appearances he managed only five goals, missed training repeatedly through injury and otherwise kept himself apart from team affairs. At the end of the season Hertha were relegated and Rahn moved on quietly to Düsseldorf.
Dark Chapters
Peter Neururer: brought in as a firefighter, he
Peter Neururer: brought in as a firefighter, he left after insulting the club.
left after insulting the club. In spring 1991 Neururer’s first Bundesliga job went as badly as almost any before him. After 12 matches, two points and a goal difference of 16:43, his time in the capital was over.
The immediate trigger was his quip after a 7:3 drubbing by Bayern. Asked whether he had ever lost that heavily before, he replied: ‘Sure, in 1966 against my brother in Tipp-Kick.’ The line got laughs in the press conference and cost him his job.