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Our first match in December was the derby against our neighbour from Mainz. As both teams are always highly motivated in these derbys and try to avoid defeats at any cost, 9 of 13 matches between the 2 clubs were draws.

The year is nearly over, and so is another period full of ups and downs for us Eintracht supporters. There’s been glory, there’s been shame, and it’s never been boring. Let’s face it – it never will be at this club, and that’s part of the reason why we love it so much.

On matchday 15 1. FSV Mainz 05 make a short trip north where they will face Eintracht Frankfurt at the Commerzbank arena. Just four points and three places divide the two sides coming into Saturday's game.

The month of November is traditionally not a great time for Eintracht supporters. Already back in the days of Grabowski and Hoelzenbein the late autumn early winter period was usually a bad patch with defeats and dull games.

It only took Bayer Leverkusen only the first eleven minutes to guarantee that they would be the side who would be top of the Bundesliga table going into next week's international break, as they put three past Eintracht debutant goalkeeper Ralf Fährmann before Michael Skibbe's side could catch their breath, prior to adding a fourth late on to seal their seventh win of the season.

Maik Franz is one of the newest editions to the Eintracht Frankfurt team in the much needed defensive part of the field. With that Maik Franz brings with him over 160 Bundesliga appearances with teams like Wolfsburg, Karlsruhe and as a member of the U21 German national team from 2002-2004.

We played 4 matches in October – plus 1 yesterday on the 1st of November. After the first defeat against Stuttgart we lost once again at Schalke. The Schalke-team got a big name, players like Neuer, Westermann, Hoewedes, Kuranyi are strong German players who played or play for the national teams (Hoewedes won the U21-European Championship with the German team in summer).

There was a big downer felt by team, management and fans recently. What we had hoped would become our personal ‘Oktoberfest’ with two games against Bayern Munich in four days ended with two defeats.

Eintracht Frankfurt earned a deserved 2-1 victory over struggling Bochum in the final game of Bundesliga matchday 11 on Sunday evening.

VfL Bochum 1848 and their new manager Heiko Herrlich will be looking to pull themselves away from the relegation zone on Sunday afternoon as they face Eintracht Frankfurt at the Commerzbank-Arena, a side whose story sofar this season has been riddled by inconsistency.

Bayern München pulled it off at the death in what had been labelled a \"must-win\" game against Eintracht Frankfurt. An 88th-minute header from Daniel van Buyten secured them a 2-1 victory, after the visitors had gone ahead in the second half.

Bayern München will take to the pitch on matchday 10 with the words of CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge following the midweek defeat at Bordeaux still ringing in their ears: \"I expect a response from the team - and I expect it against Frankfurt on Saturday.\"

The Eintracht Frankfurt fans are a tortured bunch. After becoming accustomed to the \"Keegan-esque\" football of the 1990s, with the likes of Jürgen Grabowski, Manni Binz, Uwe Bein and Tony Yeboah always good for a surprise, the Commerzbank Arena faithtful have endured years of stifled expression in recent years as the club made it Priority No1 to retain their top-flight status.

The followers of Eintracht Frankfurt are a long-suffering lot. The desire to see their team play attractive football is as intense as it has been for the most part unfulfilled in recent years, to a degree virtually unparalleled in any other city accustomed to regular Bundesliga football.

Following their explosive start to the season, Frankfurt went into Saturday's match against Hannover hoping to bring a halt to a two-game losing streak. With Ioannis Amanatidis still not 100 per cent fit, the Greek star had to make do with a place on the bench for the hosts, meaning Martin Fenin and Nikos Liberopoulos began the match in attack.

\"We have not shown our full potential at home yet so I expect my side to make amends,\" Schalke coach Felix Magath says ahead of today's encounter with Eintracht Frankfurt. Kickoff is at 8.30pm.

A 2-0 home victory against Eintracht Frankfurt sees FC Schalke 04 take third place in the table on Friday evening. Gerald Asamoah and Jefferson Farfan supplied the goals.

Eintracht Frankfurt and Alemannia Aachen contested one of the most exciting cup ties in years at the Commerzbank Arena, with the hosts coming out on top in an end-to-end, ten-goal thriller.

In Sunday's early Bundesliga kick off, Eintracht Frankfurt maintained their unbeaten start to the season with a valuable 1-1 draw at home to early pacesetters Hamburger SV at the Commerzbank Arena.

A glance at the top of the table ahead of matchday 6 in the Bundesliga reveals one real surprise at this early stage of the season. Hamburg and Leverkusen could easily have been foreseen among the frontrunners, Schalke as well with a little imagination. Quite aside from the experts though, even Eintracht Frankfurt's most devoted fans could hardly have anticipated them sitting proudly in fourth place.

Finally it was over – the summer break. That dry, thirsty and endless seeming bastard of a period in between seasons. No game of importance, an empty stadium, no headlines, no action.

After Eintracht had already made contracts with the new players Faehrmann and Franz, our new coach Skibbe chose two players himself. Teber, the former Hoffenheim-captain, and Schwegler, a young Swiss midfielder whom Skibbe knew from his last German club Leverkusen, completed the team and can be seen as substitutes for Fink and Inamoto.

In an even affair at the Commerzbank Arena, Eintracht Frankfurt and Borussia Dortmund took a both a goal and a point apiece from Saturday afternoon's match to leave the hosts' unbeaten record so far in 2009/10 intact.

Having only played seven league matches last season due to injury, Ioannis Amanatidis could hardly wait for the new Bundesliga season to kick-off. He immediately showed his worth for Eintracht Frankfurt.