20 Dec 2009: Another long break, but this time it wasn't due to laziness in updating the website but due to circumstances outside of our control.

Helen lost her job (but now has a new one, much closer to home, so all is good there) and, combined with the painful £-€ exchange rate and the wider spread of games - Bundesliga 2 games can be anytime between 6pm on a Friday and 8pm on a Monday! - things were very uncertain for us for quite some time.

Thankfully, through a combination of text messages (thanks Mirko, Holgi, Chris, Thomas and Achim!), the Live-Ticker and some dodgy internet feeds, we managed to keep up to date with Fortuna's fantastic start to life back in BL2.

After a six-month wait, and with me stuck on 49 Fortuna games, we were able to take in two matches in a two-week period - away to 1860 (in the Allianz Arena) and at home to local rivals Oberhausen. To see the photos, just click on the links.

With things now getting more back to normal, we're confident of getting across to few more matches in the Rückrunde, starting with the home match against old rivals Union Berlin at the end of January.

Cheers, Paul