‘The second half of shame’: in 2010/11 the club proved it could do even worse. After a poor start, Eintracht had climbed to fourth at one point and stood seventh at the winter break with 26 points. They even had the league’s top scorer at halfway in Theofanis Gekas with 14 goals.
Despite this excellent platform, they still went down. In the first eight matches after the winter break they failed to score once. Michael Skibbe was dismissed despite a win over St.
Pauli; Christoph Daum took over, but to no avail. With a new club negative record of just eight points in the ‘second half of shame,’ as the Frankfurter Rundschau called it, Eintracht were relegated.