Bundesbag Week 17: Winter Break

Whisper it quietly but it is said that at this time of the year most English football hacks wish they were Germans. Why? Because most German soccer journalists don't need to work over Christmas. So while Alan Green reluctantly squeezes into a windswept commentary gantry on Boxing Day afternoon and Henry Winter stays up until two in the morning on Christmas Night desperately trying to find yet another tenuous angle for yet another tedious article supporting Michael Owen's increasingly unlikely inclusion in England's World Cup squad, the likes ofUli Hesse-Lichtenburger are at home with their families.

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