Summary: Noted German football author-extraordinaire Uli Hesse joins Michel, Susie, and Scott to discuss everything from the Schweinsteiger saga to Kurt Landauer, and from Hertha Berlin to Wilhelm Neudecker. In the first segment, the discussion centers around Uli's upcoming book about the history of FC Bayern, and that spawns a multitude of tangents about different eras in the club history. The conversation reaches a point where Mr. Hesse gives his opinion on why Bayern have been able to sustain their success (albeit narrowly), and other clubs like Hamburg have fallen by the wayside. On that note, we go in-depth into why clubs from large cities like Köln, Hertha, and Eintracht Frankfurt are not challenging for titles the way clubs from big cities do in England, Spain, and Italy.The episode concludes with a secret that Uli had been keeping inside for decades about his alternate identity, which will shock all of you.
