The gentleman above is Mehmet Scholl , the ex-Bayern Munich and German international player. Scholl is similar to his Scottish counterpart in that he likes to listen to some half decent tunes. I say half decent because unlike Nevin his selections are not the most eclectic or avant-guarde, but it is still stuff that you would hear on 6 Music. Before we continue - Thank you Nick from Fisted Away for the scouting. I'm not going [...]
I promise this is the last of this mini-series featuring Andrew White... Oh and Bayern Munich of course... Dare I say... he's like a cross between The Hoff and Jess Conrad . Less the Hoff because he's not known anywhere else apart from Germany, more the Conrad (and maybe the Hoff too) with his natty taste in clothing but especially for his cheezy lyrics. ...With a final example and a chance for you to [...]

I know, I'm doing my best to ruin what is supposed to be a seasonal celebration. But hey don't shoot the messenger, it's the piano player you should be looking for. This former lounge singer just does not know when. to. stop. He continues to assault our senses when he breaks the third taboo (football and CHRISTMAS music) when he once again roped in that Bavarian club, plus he must have had some good blackmail on their parents because he got a childrens choir involved in this next one: [...]

Previously I posted about American-born now Bavaria resident Andrew White and his collaboration with the FC Bayern first team. That single actually got into the German hitparade at number #7 and hey guess what - he didn't stop there. In the 1990's Bayern Munich became to be known as FC Hollywood because of some players frequently appeared in the gossip pages of the press rather than the sports pages. During this period Andrew White and the team recorded an album... of covers ... [...]

Let me introduce you to the handsome devil below. His name is Andrew White who in his home country wouldn't get a 2nd glance, but in another would not be able to...well he would actually... let me dial it back a little... In another country would be occasionally bothered for an autograph. Let me tweak that last line a bit more: In a certain part of another country might be politely asked for his autograph by fans of a particular team. That team in [...]
French footballer Franck Ribery takes a break from working desperately to construct a move from Bayern Munich to Manchester United Chelsea Real Madrid, to appear in the music video to a song called "Meme Pas Fatigue" for someone calld DJ Kore. The video is not a whole lot of kop, but if it happens to be thudding out of a bar across the road the track might provide an effective soundtrack as you vomit cheap shots of schnapps into the lavatory of a Costa del Sol hotel :( [...]

By their standards Bayern Munich had a bad season. It culminated in April when they were gubbed by (the eventual winners) Barcelona in the Champions League and California Klinsmann was dismissed soon after. They brought in Jupp Heynckes as a caretaker manager and there was a bit of a fight back but it wasn't enough. They eventually finished as runners up in the Bundesliga. Bayern have signalled their intention to be back next season better and stronger with the appointment of Louis van Gaal - who just won the Eredivisie with AZ Alkmaar - as their [...]

I noticed that all the German stuff I've posted recently have all been about players associated with Bayern Munich . It wasn't intentional and all happen quite by accident. I want to change direction and post some songs done by or about other Bundesliga clubs, but before I do here's one that will put a cap on the Bayern ones... Die Toten Hosen (Wikipedia: The band's name literally means "The Dead Trousers" in English, although the phrase "tote Hose" is a German expression meaning "impotent", "lifeless", "boring", or "nothing [...]

- Resuming the wanderings around Germany and a quick shout out and thank you to Teena of Y I, Mum? who has submitted these excellent Deutsch tunes. You know I never thought I would find something that would compliment the Klassic Keegan Kollection that I err... collected... Nor discover somebody with a barnet as good as, if not better than King Kev's curly mop. When doing the Keegan stuff I found the image below which was taken in the 1970's. It [...]
... Der Kaiser to everybody else. What can I say about the original Becks. He's won every honour to be had. This sublime sweeper at Bayern Munich got three Bundesligia titles in a row - AND - three European Cups, again in a row. As an international won the ('72) European Championship and then the World Cup as a player (the captain of the team no less) and as a coach. Afterwards at club level he won a French title with Marseille before returning to his hometown team of Bayern and took them to a league [...]

One of the most prolific strikers in history. In his time Gerd Mueller scored 68 goals in 62 international appearances, 66 goals in 74 European Club games (both records) and 365 goals in 427 Bundesliga games. According to the stats only Pelé and Romário are higher on the all-time goalscorer rankings. ...and lucky for us "Der Bomber" liked to belt out a tune too. In the late 60's/early 70's he was Keegan-like with his attempts at the popular charts. Between 1969 and 1974 he [...]

(or.. "er Felsen !"... if Google Translate did it's job.) Posted one last week because I expect the subject to be in the headlines very soon and this fortuitously timed entry is about another back page attention getter who's transfer speculations has been going on as long as Arshavin's. Note for future self - This one is posted on transfer deadline day and one of both of these may or may not have moved before the window closed. So today's attempt to [...]

Today's goalkeeper is one that provided much entertainment for us and especially for the media. (Hover over the next couple of links.) No not that one . A bit later than that. Yeah you are nearer , but I said entertaining not calamitous. There's your man. It's a pity that we never got to saw him play in the Prem, but we did get to see his [...]