Bayern Munich 2008 Jersey : Das Musikal

What’s the best way to unveil your kit for a new season? Obviously you get your most high profile players to just chuck the shirts on and do keepie-uppies while the press take photos, right? BUZZ, wrong. The correct answer is actually get a load of female models on stage in full kit to prance around doing what I’m reliably informed is called ‘interpretative dance’ while people around just look baffled. This is the approach that the Bayern Munich staff misguidedly took, and as you can see below, the results are bizarre to say the least. It all starts to get good about 1:25 in as a couple of the girls really start spazzing out, but unfortunately it doesn’t end, as it probably should, with any kind of strip-show…

Das Bundesliga's Most Hated Player, aka 'Der Grosste Stinkstiefel'

In a recent popular vote, fans of Germany's highest league voted for Mark van Bommel as their least favourite player, dubbing him the biggest Stinkstiefel, or 'the biggest stinking boot'. The arrogant Dutchman has royally pissed off German fans with his array of skills, such as petulance and general dickheadness, which he has honed during his time in the national Dutch squad. National sides like to play games when they meet up for big competitions or qualifying games, as seen by the England squad's name checking of song titles during interviews at the 2002 World Cup, but when the Oranje meet up, select members organise competitions to see who can be the biggest jackass, playing games like 'pin the tail on the homeless', 'pissing in Ruud's water bottle' and the popular 'sexually assault the referee'. Check this vid for evidence of his silliness:

Van Bommel's petulance is reminiscent of a teenage Wayne Rooney, whose sarcastic applauding of Kim Milton Nielsen during a Champion's League game in Spain got him his two yellows in the space of seconds. Rooney was a very precocious 19 year old then, whereas van Bommel is 30 years old and really should know better. At least he realised he was being a knobjockey and trotted off the pitch fairly swiftly.

STT is going into hibernation this possibly snowy Easter, but we'd like to know who you think deserves the Premiership's title of 'biggest stinking boot'. There's a poll in the sidebar for all you democracy nuts.

Enjoy Superuperduper Sunday!

Libertine Liberation

Now Pete Doherty gets a lot of bad press, mainly because he’s covered in drugs and models 24/7, but he also has a more utilitarian side and is apparently in line to help save struggling German side KFC Uerdingen. The 4^th division outfit are currently battling administration having built up a debt of €250,000, even resorting to eBay auctions in an attempt to free themselves from the taxman’s icey grasp.

Word on the street is that a young Doherty grew up on a military base not far from the club, and developed a liking for KFC (no not the chicken, please keep up) who were at the time not a bad little firm, enjoying both relative Bundesliga success and also a semi-final run in what is now the UEFA Cup. Yesterday Doherty’s manager / drug mule Adrian Hunter had the following words for the newspapers and STT:

“I know he has some affection for the club and he would be happy to do something if he has time.”

Cynics might say that if your only hope of salvation is Pete Doherty then maybe the nails are already in the coffin and its time to cut your losses, however the Babyshambles frontman is an avid football fan. Despite supporting QPR, the rocker has a passion for good football, and I’m sure wouldn’t mind adding another string to his bow.

In other Doherty-related news, the star is currently in training for this year’s London Marathon, along with new squeeze Portia Freeman, but has resorted to wearing his missus’ bras to provide comfort for his painfully sore nipples. You can’t make this stuff up.

Friends have commented that all this running is “a much better obsession” than drugs, but STT would argue that they’ve clearly never tried smack.