Sascha Burchert Learns Not From His Mistakes

How cruel to watch the disaster that is this year’s edition of Hertha Berlin whilst another train crashes into the wreckage. Cruel, but necessary.

The heroic climb of the boys from the capital up last year’s table was a source of much awe; almost as much awe as the current state of affairs this year. Bottom of the table, seven losses in a row, coach fired and even failing to beat the European likes of FK Ventspils at home. How best to cure all that ails? Probably not a visit from then league leaders Hamburg. Definitely not a visit from Sascha Burchert.

The latter half of the below video pretty much tells the story of 19 yo Sascha, who was lucky enough to come on as an injury replacement before the half hour mark. He was not lucky enough to have learned from his initial mistake, and he will now live this day down for the remainder of his Hertha career.

Now if he’d start up an entirely unprovoked argument with a teammate or two, we could proclaim him the new Jens.

But shockingly, Sascha’s swandiving antics did not even include Hertha’s most unforgivable own goal of the day. That honor goes to one Kaka, whose heading skills are absolutely top notch, if a bit imprecise (0:50).

You’ve got to believe Hertha is either cursed or being blackmailed into self-torpedoed relegation. Though I’m not even sure one could succeed in being this bad by trying.

It would then seem wizards are taking over football. Cruel bastard wizards.

[FanArtisch]

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