For me, kind of…interesting. Especially over Lyon and Fiorentina. Toni up against his former club for the latter.

Wow, you guys have Luca Toni, Diego, Ribary… And now this! unbeatable!

I dont know you Mark, but you, Sir, are a GENIUS. I will be humming that all day now.

Oh! Who lives in a office under the Säbener Straße?
Jürgen Klinsmann!
Ambitious and red and struggling is he!
Jürgen Klinsmann!
If tactical nonsense be something you wish…
Jürgen Klinsmann!
Then drop on the pitch and flop like a fish!
Jürgen Klinsmann!
Ready?
Jürgen Klinsmann! Jürgen Klinsmann! Jürgen Klinsmann!
Jürgen…. Klinsmann! Haha.

I’m just going to keep telling myself that it’s too early to tell whether they’ve “personally developed” themselves into oblivion.

The former student in me awoke whenever I have to ‘research’ such things. I had almost lost count of how many research topics I had done back in school for various reasons! School has trained me to be in this way and yes, there were a handful of topics which were assigned to me (or to the group given doing projects back in school is always a group thing) that I had never like before the start of doing the research. But in the end when it was all over, I ended telling myself that hey, I did learned something new.

Now my latest ‘project’ – Trying to learn more about 1899 Hoffenheim. The ‘research’ has been going on and off since the end of the previous season and gathered steam again when the new season started. Anything that interests me, I always try to read more about it when I have the time. That’s just me. The club’s rise to the top do fascinate me given on the surface, it looked like the Chelsea of today (given I remembered it was after Roman Abramovich came in a few years after the turn of the century, the club finally won the league title in 2005, 50 years after they last won it) but it’s not. I then realised that in Germany, a single person cannot own the majority share of the club because the guideline is very different in England.

I like to read, and it has been like this since primary school. Doing research does require some reading as well.

I suppose if not for an English teacher who used to teach my class in primary school telling us the benefits of reading (she was telling the class to read more storybooks in order to know more vocabulary and that was only when the hobby of reading only really took off for me)…I won’t be like this now. She taught my class in my third year in primary school (I was nine then). In a way, she influenced my love of reading. A 12-year ‘love affair’ in the making.

‘The fortunes of Bayern players have long fascinated me, ever since I spent a term attempting to learn German at a Munich school inbetween watching Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Paul Breitner lighting up the Olympic Stadium.’

Back then, The Telegraph’s Henry Winter wrote an article about the Bayern Munich players at the tournament and he mentioned this version you posted, Jan. Winter’s article was reproduced in one of the newspapers here ahead of Germany’s quarter-final match against Turkey and it caught my attention. To admit, that was the first time I actually knew of the Bayern Munich anthem.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/columnists/henrywinter/2304075/Euro-2008-Winter%27s-Word-Bayern-Munich%27s-southern-star-shining-brightly.html

And, what a coincidence. I am having the TV on it’s the Dortmund-Bayern match being shown (second-half ongoing as I type this). On a delayed telecast over here, that is.