01.02.10 Köln
I think I might have found an important truth about success in football. If any Chinese gambling consortia are interested they can call me directly, while the rest of you will find it here:
Fron time to time on our travels we find ourselves in the same hotel as a football team. In the Interconti in Stuttgart I saw Jürgen Klinsmann. He isn’t really a team but he is medium sized and shiny… Sorry, I lost the point of my story for a moment. To continue, a few years ago, at the Park Hotel in Bremen, we found the players of Werder Bremen, relaxing before or after their game. To my surprise they were both young and small (not to be confused with the EOC song of the same name). They had a tiny 14 year old goalkeeper, two or three brazilian boys from the barrio, and some other child workers in both attacking and defensive positions. Very interesting, I’m sure.
Yesterday we had a day off in Leverkusen. We stayed at a hotel inside The BayArena, where Bayer Leverkusen were in the process of beating Freiburg 3-1 in order to take back their place at the top of the table from Bayern München. Very interesting, I’m sure.
This morning at breakfast in this BayArena hotel we saw the players from the defeated Freiburg team. Having based my idea about footballers on the tiny fellows from Bremen, I was surprised to see that these guys were not only much older, but also much bigger. And much lower in the table than Werder. So my theory is this: the higher in the table the team is, the smaller the team members are. I know this is true because the players of Beyer 04, table leaders, were not to be seen at all. Being table leaders they are too small to be seen with the naked eye, and take up very little space in the breakfast room.
My conclusions are in accordance with Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity, as outlined in my posting from Bern 21.01.10.
And now it’s time for a soundcheck.