Volker Finke was in a foul mood. On September 22, 1990 his TSV Havelse side had lost 1–0 away at SC Freiburg in the 2. Bundesliga, one of 25 defeats in the Lower Saxons’ only season in the division. After the match Finke wanted only one thing: peace and quiet, then onto the team bus and the more than 700 kilometres back north.\n\nBut by the bus a bald man in horn-rimmed glasses stopped him and began talking in detail about the preceding ninety minutes.
Finke probably thought he had an autograph hunter in front of him. Wrong.\n\nEventually he snapped: if you belong to this club, he said, then let me tell you that you simply do not play good football — we were actually better.
