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I didn't get to watch much Bundesliga action last week for reasons I won't bore you with. So this
week's round-up promises to be shorter than the essays I've penned in the last couple of weeks. One
of the few games that I did manage to catch was Bayern Munich's visit to an emotional AWD
Arena to face Hannover.
At the risk of sounding disparaging, a test tube baby constructed from the essence of Bill Shankly,
Rinus Michels and Sepp Herberger could have failed at Tottenham in the late 1990's. Here was a club
that was so desperate they ended up hiring the hated George Graham. Even so, mention the name
Christian Gross in Blighty and you'll find Tottenham supporters groaning at the memory of
his ill fated spell as Spurs manager in 1997 and everyone else laughing up their sleeve.
Having spent the majority of last weekend hunched over a PC producing the Onion Bag Christmas
podcast (which I really hope you'll take the time to listen to) there was no oppurtunity for me to
watch any football. Naturally I've caught up with the latest shenanigans with Jens Lehmann and the
hilarity that was Hannover managing to score 6 (six) goals and still lose to 'Gladbach but that's
old news.
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.
