Berlin – I had mentally finished the text for this column before Hertha’s last game of the season against Borussia Dortmund – at least in my head. After the disastrous performance in Mainz, I didn’t give a damn to coach Tayfun Korkut’s team against the star-studded team from Dortmund. The Norwegian hurricane Erling Haaland alone would shoot holes in the Berlin Wall – I had expected two, three or even four Borussia goals. I was not alone with this assumption, as I could see from the fearful, often defeatist comments of many Hertha fans on social networks. I was already asking myself the crucial question: is Hertha untrainable?
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