[GER] Bundesliga 2005/06 (2 Viewers)
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LEHMANN V KAHN: ROUND 666
Being forced to play nothing but friendlies in the run-up to the
Volkswagen Alcopop Bratwurst World Cup clearly hasn't blunted
Germany's competitive edge. Not that of goalkeeper Jens Lehmann,
anyway. Back in the national squad for tomorrow's limb-stretcher
against Slovakia - having been omitted from the last one because
coach Jurgen Klinsmann now alternates between Lehmann and Mary
Shelley's Oliver Kahn in a bid to keep the two sworn enemies apart
(apparently in the futile hope that they'll have forgotten their
differences by next summer) - the Arsenal No1 took yet another tilt
at his blockheaded foe.
"I'm sure I'll be in goal at the World Cup," Lehmann parped, before
admitting that while Kahn may not be good enough to keep him out, he
himself may squander his place through a characteristic madcap dash
from his box. "It could always happen that I play the first three
games, then get a red card, but I'm sure I'll be playing."
Lehmann clearly enjoys lampooning Kahn, never more so than last year
when he poured gallons of his own scorn onto the fire of condemnation
that engulfed Kahn when tabloids revealed he'd left his pregnant wife
for a barmaid ten years his junior. "Lehmann can't cope with being
No2, he doesn't seem to be able to live with it," retorted Kahn at
the time, before warning: "the direction he's going in is insane."
Today, the square-haired stopper simply sounded exasperated: "It's
astonishing how disrespectful it is to bring this rivalry up again,"
he gnashed. "The rules don't seem to have any meaning for Lehmann."
Kahn then called on Klinsmann to decide which keeper is his top choice
now - and cast the other one into oblivion. Perhaps not the wisest
move given that Klinsmann's first decision after becoming German
manager was to strip Kahn of the captaincy and award it to Michael
Ballack. For the moment, though, Klinsi's staying true to his
reputation as a Beetle-driving, daisy-chain-making, peace-and-love
merchant, quietly assuring that "both men will get their chance, this
will be decided in May." When, presumably, the two men will be given
muskets and a ten-second countdown.
Being forced to play nothing but friendlies in the run-up to the
Volkswagen Alcopop Bratwurst World Cup clearly hasn't blunted
Germany's competitive edge. Not that of goalkeeper Jens Lehmann,
anyway. Back in the national squad for tomorrow's limb-stretcher
against Slovakia - having been omitted from the last one because
coach Jurgen Klinsmann now alternates between Lehmann and Mary
Shelley's Oliver Kahn in a bid to keep the two sworn enemies apart
(apparently in the futile hope that they'll have forgotten their
differences by next summer) - the Arsenal No1 took yet another tilt
at his blockheaded foe.
"I'm sure I'll be in goal at the World Cup," Lehmann parped, before
admitting that while Kahn may not be good enough to keep him out, he
himself may squander his place through a characteristic madcap dash
from his box. "It could always happen that I play the first three
games, then get a red card, but I'm sure I'll be playing."
Lehmann clearly enjoys lampooning Kahn, never more so than last year
when he poured gallons of his own scorn onto the fire of condemnation
that engulfed Kahn when tabloids revealed he'd left his pregnant wife
for a barmaid ten years his junior. "Lehmann can't cope with being
No2, he doesn't seem to be able to live with it," retorted Kahn at
the time, before warning: "the direction he's going in is insane."
Today, the square-haired stopper simply sounded exasperated: "It's
astonishing how disrespectful it is to bring this rivalry up again,"
he gnashed. "The rules don't seem to have any meaning for Lehmann."
Kahn then called on Klinsmann to decide which keeper is his top choice
now - and cast the other one into oblivion. Perhaps not the wisest
move given that Klinsmann's first decision after becoming German
manager was to strip Kahn of the captaincy and award it to Michael
Ballack. For the moment, though, Klinsi's staying true to his
reputation as a Beetle-driving, daisy-chain-making, peace-and-love
merchant, quietly assuring that "both men will get their chance, this
will be decided in May." When, presumably, the two men will be given
muskets and a ten-second countdown.
