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21. Weekly Howl 03-07-09: (2009); ... of their three games at the 1974 World Cup but they gave the hosts West Germany a hard game despite the 3-0 scoreline. Franz Beckenbauer was so annoyed by booing in the home crowd that he ran off at the ...; Created on 08 July 2009
22. Directors of football: (Europe); ... s Otto Rehhagel and last season Ottmar Hitzfeld have wilted under the constant sniping from board members Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Franz Beckenbauer, FC Hollywood’s own Waldorf and Statler. Smaller ...; Created on 21 November 2008
23. Championnat de France 1975-76: (Season in brief); ... talisman – and then nothing since. In their famous green shirts they became the first French club since Reims in 1959 to reach the European Cup final, losing 1-0 to Franz Beckenbauer’s Bayern Munich after ...; Created on 21 April 2008
24. Euro scepticism ~ Germany: (Organisation & structure); ... success. And the English are proud of this success.” Nor have any German football figures proposed that the Bundesliga should follow Scudamore’s lead. Franz Beckenbauer found the idea of an international ...; Created on 21 April 2008
25. Control freaks: (Webwatch); ... ss (because Bayern have always restricted access to critical journalists), but rather to keep better control of what it called the club’s “temperamental staff”, in particular president Franz Beckenbauer an ...; Created on 21 March 2008
26. Germany – Bayern Munich's familiar face: (Letter from...); ... ig news in Germany. Thanks to Franz Beckenbauer’s and Oliver Kahn’s womanising, Mario Basler’s drinking and Stefan Effenberg’s obnoxiousness, the club did their best to earn the nickname FC Hollywood. ...; Created on 21 March 2008
27. Trapattoni: (Managers); ... Franz Beckenbauer sneered), but in the second he won the title. He treated all players identically regardless of rank, which went down badly with such stars as Lothar Matthäus and Jürgen Klinsmann (the l ...; Created on 17 January 2008
28. My England Years: (Players); ... no modern manager would dare ask of a star forward in the biggest match of their lives – simply man-mark an opposing centre-back, Franz Beckenbauer, out of the game. He dutifully and effectively complied, ...; Created on 17 January 2008
29. Paul Joyce: (Writers); ... writes on language, culture and society in the German-speaking countries. Unless forcibly restrained by his nursing staff, he can equally perform a plant-withering rendition of Franz Beckenbauer's ...; Created on 17 January 2008
30. Boxing clever: (Governing bodies); ... Matthäus in captaining West Germany to the 1990 World Cup that there was genuine talk of him as a future German chancellor. In a more likely setting, both Franz Beckenbauer and, most impressively of all, ...; Created on 25 September 2007
31. A certain solidarity: (Politics); ... Franz Beckenbauer stated that he would rather move the side to the Italian league than pay the money back. In 2005, Rummenigge blamed Bayern’s failures in Europe on the “distribution madness” which allocated ...; Created on 14 June 2007
32. Bundesliga 1965-66: (Season in brief); ... gs Franz Beckenbauer ~ The Kaiser made his West Germany debut in September 1965, was player of the year in this, his first Bundesliga season, and scored four times in the 1966 World Cup. The rest is his ...; Created on 14 November 2006
33. Branding exercise: (World Cup 2006); ... executive of a major global lager producer, you’d probably feel you’d earned a couple of weeks watching almost as many World Cup matches as Franz Beckenbauer, occasionally golfing with Michel Platini, ...; Created on 14 August 2006
34. World Cup 2006 TV diary – Group stages: (World Cup 2006); ... ith boredom. Paraguay have Camissa booked after two minutes and dish out plenty of rough treatment. Franz Beckenbauer spends the whole match leaning forward anxiously like a surgery patient waiting to ...; Created on 14 August 2006
35. World Cup 2006 TV diary – Knockout Stages: (World Cup 2006); ... Heinze is very fortunate to get only a yellow after bringing down Fonseca on the edge of his area just before half-time. The cameras catch Diego Maradona burping distractedly. No sign of that from Franz ...; Created on 14 August 2006
36. Italy 07/06: (Letter from...); ... Italy. Franz Beckenbauer predicted Italy will pay the consequences at the World Cup. The international press have had fun getting sanctimonious about sleazy Serie A, too. If a fraction of the allegations ...; Created on 14 July 2006
37. Totalitarian ticketing: (World Cup 2006); ... – Franz Beckenbauer. I’ve got mine sorted. From WSC 232 June 2006. What was happening this month ...; Created on 14 June 2006
38. Soccer mania: (WSC); ... amount of money, Warner Brothers saw no reason why a similar offer wouldn’t entice Franz Beckenbauer. Initially, Beckenbauer insisted the earliest he would come was after the 1978 World Cup, but an offer ...; Created on 14 May 2006
39. Jürgen busting: (International football); ... esults turn bad – particularly as Bayern’s president Franz Beckenbauer and Klinsmann’s arch-rival Lothar Matthäus both moonlight at Bild. Since Germany’s capitulation in Florence, the tabloid’s sports e ...; Created on 14 May 2006
40. Cup fear: (World Cup 2006); ... the terrorist atrocities at the Munich Olympics, and the police increased security to such an extent that armed guards roamed training camps and Franz Beckenbauer carried a gun for his own protection. ...; Created on 14 February 2006

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